UFOMYST
CaseCigar1997

Palo, MI, USA

I was sitting outside on the Phone with a friend when I looked up and saw a silent, cigar shaped craft flying west to east due north of

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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-09-22
Where
Palo, MI, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
6 minutes
Geo
43.113, -84.986 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-palo-mi-1997-f6fc4c
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 3 documented reports from Palo, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 46 sightings in 1997.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.3% during the 1990s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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