Zeeland, MI, USA
A flash of light appeared for a brief moment, then zoomed away to my right.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-10-19
- Where
- Zeeland, MI, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 42.813, -86.019 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-zeeland-mi-2015-b3420c
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
- One of 12 documented reports from Zeeland, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Michigan logged 186 sightings in 2015.
- Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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