Grand Rapids, MI, USA
circular discs in a formation speeded through the sky. 3 discs first, then 5, then 3 again, extremely fast.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (107 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-03-17
- Where
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- approx 30 minutes
- Geo
- 42.963, -85.668 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-grand-rapids-mi-2009-54a35f
Part of a wave
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
- Grand Rapids, MI has 121 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 125 reports from Michigan.
- The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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