UFOMYST
CaseDisk2008

Niles, MI, USA

Playing having fun then I saw the craft and a bright shine and away it went.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-04-05
Where
Niles, MI, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5ft x 8ft craft, hovering
Geo
41.830, -86.254 · exact
Slug
disk-over-niles-mi-2008-c6332a
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Niles, MI has 16 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 141 reports from Michigan.
  • The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

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