CaseCylinder2008

Oscoda, MI, USA

A string of 5-6 yellow lights, south of Oscoda Michigan, at first above the trees, then below then vanished

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-02-21
Where
Oscoda, MI, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
44.420, -83.331 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-oscoda-mi-2008-bde2cd
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • This is one of 10 reports logged in Oscoda, MI.
  • This case is one of 141 Michigan reports filed in 2008.
  • Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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