Mancelona, MI, USA
Strange objects blinking red and white and moveing in weird directions. ((NUFORC Note: Possible twinkling stars, we suspect. PD))
Report quality: Low29/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2012-08-29
- Where
- Mancelona, MI, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- most nights
- Geo
- 44.902, -85.061 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-mancelona-mi-2012-a6aaff
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
- This is one of 7 reports logged in Mancelona, MI.
- This case is one of 236 Michigan reports filed in 2012.
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