CaseRectangle2021
Hartland, MI, USA
Straight band of light(s) moving across the sky of southwest Michigan
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (69 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-05-26
- Where
- Hartland, MI, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 42.657, -83.753 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-hartland-mi-2021-69cda7
Wave
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
- Hartland, MI shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 57 reports came from Michigan in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 1.8% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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