CaseTriangle2016

Manistique, MI, USA

Massive triangular craft, two rapidly blinking white lights on either side, unblinking red light on tip, travelling slowly and silently

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-03
Where
Manistique, MI, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
45.958, -86.246 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-manistique-mi-2016-3cc7a4
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…

In context

  • Manistique, MI has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 136 reports from Michigan.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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