CaseOval2017

Warren, MI, USA

I saw a flattened matte black oval sticking half way out of a tree three houses away. It must have been greater than 30 feet up and lar

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2017-08-19
Where
Warren, MI, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
42.490, -83.013 · exact
Slug
oval-over-warren-mi-2017-853291
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

August 2017 was a busy month for Warren, MI: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 47 reports logged in Warren, MI.
  • This case is one of 134 Michigan reports filed in 2017.
  • Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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