Birch Run, MI, USA
I went to the door to put my dog out. I saw red and green lights coming across Birch Run Rd toward my house through the trees. I watch
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-12-02
- Where
- Birch Run, MI, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 43.251, -83.794 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-birch-run-mi-1997-9ed995
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Birch Run, MI has 5 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 46 reports from Michigan.
- The 1990s skewed 1.3% chevron reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.1%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.