CaseLight2008

Dowagiac, MI, USA

3 lights at the leading edge of an approaching storm

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-06-08
Where
Dowagiac, MI, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
41.984, -86.109 · exact
Slug
light-over-dowagiac-mi-2008-7b7171
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

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Dowagiac, MI.
  • This case is one of 141 Michigan reports filed in 2008.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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