Waterford, MI, USA
In Waterford, Michigan on July 6, 1965, a witness reported what looked like a shooting star making an unusual back-and-forth zigzag pattern across the sky in about five seconds.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (177 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-07-06
- Where
- Waterford, MI, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 42.693, -83.412 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-waterford-mi-1965-fe69d0
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Waterford, MI has 26 sightings on file here.
- 1965 brought 6 reports from Michigan.
- The 1960s skewed 1.1% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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