CaseFormation2004

Waterloo-Chelsea, MI, USA

3 reddish luminous objects with trails flying very fast in formation ((Probable space debris. PD))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-06-26
Where
Waterloo-Chelsea, MI, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
7 -10 sec
Geo
Slug
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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…

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Waterloo-Chelsea, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 83 sightings in 2004.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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