CaseCircle1964
Detroit, MI, USA
An amateur astronomer in Detroit, Michigan reported observing a large circular object through a telescope that appeared to have markings on its surface, lasting about 45 minutes, 1964.
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (184 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1964-10-20
- Where
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 42.331, -83.046 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-detroit-mi-1964-f842f2
In context
- One of 94 documented reports from Detroit, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Michigan logged 6 sightings in 1964.
- Circle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 1960s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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