Jackson, MI, USA
Triangle with 3 white lights, fast moving west to east, no sound clear sky.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-12-11
- Where
- Jackson, MI, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 42.246, -84.401 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-jackson-mi-2008-6191de
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Jackson, MI reports filed in December 2008.
In context
- Jackson, MI shows up 34 times across the archive.
- 141 reports came from Michigan in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
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.