UFOMYST
CaseFormation2021

Alamo, MI, USA

My best description is "The Phoenix lights" but a lot more. I recorded the event over "Rupert Lake" in North Western Kalamazoo County.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-05-22
Where
Alamo, MI, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
5 or 6 minutes
Geo
42.375, -85.708 · exact
Slug
formation-over-alamo-mi-2021-bdda79
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Alamo, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 57 sightings in 2021.
  • Formation sightings ran at 5.2% during the 2020s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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