Lincoln, MI, USA
3 orange lit craft in v shape that appear to what seemed out of nowhere! Michigan
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-05-17
- Where
- Lincoln, MI, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 44.685, -83.412 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-lincoln-mi-2019-0d77e6
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
- Lincoln, MI shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 136 reports came from Michigan in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.