Oscoda, MI, USA
3 orange burst of balls, going off 1 at a time, 3rd one had 6 little orange lights under it. Jets came & they left
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (114 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-13
- Where
- Oscoda, MI, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 15 min.
- Geo
- 44.420, -83.331 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-oscoda-mi-2009-04ce1f
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
- Oscoda, MI shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 125 reports came from Michigan in 2009.
Report
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