UFOMYST
CaseOther2016

Niles, MI, USA

I saw a black line crossing the face of the moon. The line covered approx 5% of the visable moon.

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-01-23
Where
Niles, MI, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
~4 minutes
Geo
41.830, -86.254 · exact
Slug
other-over-niles-mi-2016-fb27cd
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…

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In context

  • One of 16 documented reports from Niles, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 136 sightings in 2016.
  • Other sightings ran at 6.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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