UFOMYST
CaseCircle1997

Marlette, MI, USA

A large solid noiseless object, possibly round, with four lights, passed slowly over a residential neighborhood in Marlette, MI. It ha

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-12-15
Where
Marlette, MI, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
approx. 3 minutes
Geo
43.327, -83.080 · exact
Slug
circle-over-marlette-mi-1997-ad4c7e
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Marlette, MI shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 46 reports came from Michigan in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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