Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Driving south on 131 near Leonard Street exit in Grand Rapids. Blueish/green teardrop shaped craft suddenly appeared at a high rate of
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-06-27
- Where
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 42.963, -85.668 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-grand-rapids-mi-2016-549935
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
- Grand Rapids, MI has 121 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 136 reports from Michigan.
- The 2010s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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