two or three miles northwest of Detroit Metro Airport., MI, USA
One oval shaped object that blended in with the sky, but visible. Two smaller, dark gray, triangular shaped objects...one changed form.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 11s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-12-26
- Where
- two or three miles northwest of Detroit Metro Airport., MI, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 10 to 12 seconds
- Geo
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- Slug
- oval-over-two-or-three-miles-northwest-of-detroit-metro-airport-mi-2021-1f8aec
Part of a wave
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
- two or three miles northwest of Detroit Metro Airport., MI has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 57 reports from Michigan.
- The 2020s skewed 3.5% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.