Dearborn, MI, USA
7 red/orange orb-like lights in a straight line moving upward before 4th of July fireworks, then faded and disappeared one at a time.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-04
- Where
- Dearborn, MI, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 42.322, -83.176 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-dearborn-mi-2013-b06fe0
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Dearborn, MI reports filed in July 2013.
In context
- Dearborn, MI shows up 25 times across the archive.
- 188 reports came from Michigan in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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