CaseFireball2011
Wayland, MI, USA
Two "fireballs," 20 minutes apart, in different counties.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (57 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-07-14
- Where
- Wayland, MI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 42.674, -85.645 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-wayland-mi-2011-32e514
Wave
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
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Wayland, MI.
- This case is one of 161 Michigan reports filed in 2011.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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