UFOMYST
CaseOther2018

Grand Rapids, MI, USA

Large manta-ray shaped UFO frozen on a 45 degree angle with 7 large white pyramid patterned circles on the bottom of the aircraft

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-07-11
Where
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
42.963, -85.668 · exact
Slug
other-over-grand-rapids-mi-2018-7e7d4c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 121 reports logged in Grand Rapids, MI.
  • This case is one of 62 Michigan reports filed in 2018.
  • Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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