CaseCone1977

Grand Rapids, MI, USA

I know what I saw....I don't care if you don't believe me....

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-09-01
Where
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
42.963, -85.668 · exact
Slug
cone-over-grand-rapids-mi-1977-a50f5a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    Colares & Operação Prato

    Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil

    The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…

In context

  • Grand Rapids, MI shows up 121 times across the archive.
  • 12 reports came from Michigan in 1977.
  • In the 1970s, 0.4% of reports described a cone — the all-time rate is 0.4%.

Report

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