UFOMYST
CaseSphere2004

Shelby Township, MI, USA

LOW Altitude Extremely bright Sphere

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (36 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-07-19
Where
Shelby Township, MI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 Minutes
Geo
42.671, -83.033 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-shelby-township-mi-2004-a818fa
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Shelby Township, MI has 17 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 83 reports from Michigan.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.