CaseTeardrop2003
Manistique, MI, USA
Distinct teardrop light over Lake Michigan. (red&green) ((NUFORC Note: Probable meteor/asteroid entering atmosphere. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2003-03-27
- Where
- Manistique, MI, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 45.958, -86.246 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-manistique-mi-2003-23671e
In context
- One of 4 documented reports from Manistique, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Michigan logged 94 sightings in 2003.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 0.9%).
Report
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