Surf City, MI, USA
Orange light hovered, disappeared, then reappeared shooting straight up until it stopped at the same point it was prior to disappearing
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-07-04
- Where
- Surf City, MI, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 34.427, -77.546 · fallback
- Slug
- light-over-surf-city-mi-2010-375086
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
- Surf City, MI shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 124 reports came from Michigan in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
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.