CaseUnknown2013

Manitou Beach, MI, USA

5 silver cigar craft and one sphere seen in Mi on Friday afternoon Sept 27, 2013

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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 (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-09-27
Where
Manitou Beach, MI, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
Geo
45.491, -83.933 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-manitou-beach-mi-2013-89a2c5
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

  • Manitou Beach, MI shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 188 reports came from Michigan in 2013.

Report

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