CaseCylinder1957
Walled Lake, MI, USA
A witness near Walled Lake, Michigan reported a glowing, cylindrical object that suddenly vanished in a flash, during a sighting lasting about 30 minutes in June 1957.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (167 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1957-06-15
- Where
- Walled Lake, MI, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 42.538, -83.481 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-walled-lake-mi-1957-3297c3
In context
- Walled Lake, MI has 5 sightings on file here.
- 1957 brought 3 reports from Michigan.
- The 1950s skewed 2% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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