Plainwell, MI, USA
At about 10:30PM in Plainwell, MI near a small airfield a large group of friends witnessed a large circular orange light.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-04
- Where
- Plainwell, MI, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 42.440, -85.649 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-plainwell-mi-2009-462369
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 7 reports logged in Plainwell, MI.
- This case is one of 125 Michigan reports filed in 2009.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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