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
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…
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 daysReport
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