UFOMYST
CaseSphere2004

Sidney, MI, USA

stars that fly

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: 14400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (14 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-10-01
Where
Sidney, MI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
4 hours
Geo
43.250, -85.133 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-sidney-mi-2004-d48116
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

  • Sidney, MI shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 83 reports came from Michigan in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate 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.