CaseSphere2012

Rochester Hills, MI, USA

3 amber-tan spheres spotted over skies in michigan

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-02-09
Where
Rochester Hills, MI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 minute
Geo
42.658, -83.150 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-rochester-hills-mi-2012-3e5d61
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

  • This is one of 23 reports logged in Rochester Hills, MI.
  • This case is one of 236 Michigan reports filed in 2012.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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