CaseOval2012

Charlotte, MI, USA

Five billowy oval reddish lights passing west to east at 18:55 EST over Charlotte, MI on 12/22/12

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-12-22
Where
Charlotte, MI, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
42.564, -84.836 · exact
Slug
oval-over-charlotte-mi-2012-bbd758
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…

In context

  • Charlotte, MI has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 236 reports from Michigan.
  • The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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