Westland, MI, USA
We saw a light, whitish blue, flying just below cloud level, moving slow. It was not pulsating or flickering...no sound.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-05
- Where
- Westland, MI, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.324, -83.400 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-westland-mi-2015-3f4417
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 23 reports logged in Westland, MI.
- This case is one of 186 Michigan reports filed in 2015.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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