CaseTriangle2014

Grand Rapids, MI, USA

Triangular craft with three dim orange lights.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-05-05
Where
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3-5 seconds
Geo
42.963, -85.668 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-grand-rapids-mi-2014-5b9b55
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

May 2014 was a busy month for Grand Rapids, MI: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 121 reports logged in Grand Rapids, MI.
  • This case is one of 184 Michigan reports filed in 2014.
  • Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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