CaseRectangle2004

Livonia, MI, USA

A bright light appeared in the sky West of our house and remained their for about 20 minutes and left with incredibale speed.

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: 1140s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (125 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-05-16
Where
Livonia, MI, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
19 min
Geo
42.368, -83.353 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-livonia-mi-2004-0127fa
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

  • Livonia, MI has 27 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 83 reports from Michigan.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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