CaseUnknown2014
East Tawas, MI, USA
New type of aircraft?
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (21 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-02-24
- Where
- East Tawas, MI, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 44.279, -83.490 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-east-tawas-mi-2014-9b1e13
Wave
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…
In context
- East Tawas, MI shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 184 reports came from Michigan in 2014.
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.