Tapiola, MI, USA
was driving & square craft hovered over me! I sped up to 80ph..but my speed kept slowing down. I slowed for a SHARP turn, craft was
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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- Duration parsed: 21600s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-08-06
- Where
- Tapiola, MI, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 6 hrs
- Geo
- 46.925, -88.627 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-tapiola-mi-2006-514545
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Tapiola, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Michigan logged 109 sightings in 2006.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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