Jackson, MI, USA
Formation of 3 lights heading SE, appeared to be fast and low altitude with no noise detectable. ((NUFORC Note: NOSS satellites? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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 (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2004-09-07
- Where
- Jackson, MI, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 42.246, -84.401 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-jackson-mi-2004-d4df4d
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
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In context
- This is one of 34 reports logged in Jackson, MI.
- This case is one of 83 Michigan reports filed in 2004.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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