CaseCylinder1968
Taylor, MI, USA
A witness near Detroit Metro Airport in Taylor, Michigan reported a three-foot transparent, capsule-shaped object traveling at treetop height in June 1968, during a one-minute sighting.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (185 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-06-15
- Where
- Taylor, MI, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 42.241, -83.270 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-taylor-mi-1968-99eab9
In context
- This is one of 14 reports logged in Taylor, MI.
- This case is one of 5 Michigan reports filed in 1968.
- Cylinder craft made up 2% of 1960s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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