UFOMYST
CaseOval2011

Royal Oak, MI, USA

Split second blinking blue lights, about the size of a fist at arm's length.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-05-21
Where
Royal Oak, MI, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
42.489, -83.145 · exact
Slug
oval-over-royal-oak-mi-2011-8b54c6
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

  • One of 14 documented reports from Royal Oak, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 161 sightings in 2011.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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