Rockford, MI, USA
Object giving off bright red, white, gold and green lights. Stayed in place for 30 mins and disapeared. ((NUFORC Note: Star?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 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
- 2008-09-17
- Where
- Rockford, MI, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- approx. 25 minutes
- Geo
- 43.120, -85.560 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-rockford-mi-2008-d03629
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
- Rockford, MI has 13 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 141 reports from Michigan.
Report
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