CaseLight2014

Grand Rapids, MI, USA

During the night of June 28, 2014 during the twilight hours right before in got dark me and two friends were sitting out on the deck of

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2014-06-28
Where
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
42.963, -85.668 · exact
Slug
light-over-grand-rapids-mi-2014-50b3bb
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 Grand Rapids, MI in June 2014 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Grand Rapids, MI has 121 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 184 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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