CaseOval2005

Hudsonville, MI, USA

Myself and another man were standing in my front yard talking, when he pointed at the sky and asked "what's that"? Looking at the north

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 (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-07-16
Where
Hudsonville, MI, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
apx 3 min
Geo
42.871, -85.865 · exact
Slug
oval-over-hudsonville-mi-2005-911ae5
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

  • This is one of 10 reports logged in Hudsonville, MI.
  • This case is one of 93 Michigan reports filed in 2005.
  • Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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