CaseLight2012

Detroit, MI, USA

I saw a very faint light traveling northward and it disappeared and then another appeared traveling southwards in opposite direction

Report quality: High73/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-06-26
Where
Detroit, MI, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
42.331, -83.046 · exact
Slug
light-over-detroit-mi-2012-231c68
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Detroit, MI in June 2012 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Detroit, MI has 94 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 236 reports from Michigan.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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