Charlevoix, MI, USA
I was leaving work at 11:00 p.m. on August 12th, 2016. I was walking across the road headed towards my car when, I heard a loud militar
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-12
- Where
- Charlevoix, MI, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 45.318, -85.258 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-charlevoix-mi-2016-819684
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
- Charlevoix, MI has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 136 reports from Michigan.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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