UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2009

Detroit, MI, USA

I saw 3 lights that looked like spotlights at first. They later started to gather together and play like children in the sky. It was

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-06-20
Where
Detroit, MI, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
42.331, -83.046 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-detroit-mi-2009-0fc736
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…

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In context

  • Detroit, MI shows up 94 times across the archive.
  • 125 reports came from Michigan in 2009.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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