Monroe, MI, USA
Weird spinning light UFO above the fields between Monroe and Ida (yet again). ((NUFORC Note: Star or planet?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2012-02-27
- Where
- Monroe, MI, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- about 2 hours
- Geo
- 41.916, -83.398 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-monroe-mi-2012-a2bd8b
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 Monroe, MI in February 2012 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Monroe, MI has 28 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 daysReport
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