CaseDisk1997

Ecorse, MI, USA

5 disk-like aircraft moved around another in the night sky, lined up and took off at the speed of light

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-15
Where
Ecorse, MI, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
1-3 minutes
Geo
42.244, -83.146 · exact
Slug
disk-over-ecorse-mi-1997-10b3a4
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Ecorse, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 46 sightings in 1997.
  • Disk sightings ran at 7.1% during the 1990s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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