Newberry, MI, USA
4 thousand foot long string of 11 red flashing lights stationary on Lake Superior north of Whitefish Point, Michigan.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-30
- Where
- Newberry, MI, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 46.355, -85.510 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-newberry-mi-2017-e2d20e
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…
In context
- This is one of 5 reports logged in Newberry, MI.
- This case is one of 134 Michigan reports filed in 2017.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.