CaseDisk1978
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Saw a craft decend over some power lines and hover. Saucer shaped with bright lights around the middle
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-01-12
- Where
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.963, -85.668 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-grand-rapids-mi-1978-13a150
Wave
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 121 reports logged in Grand Rapids, MI.
- This case is one of 24 Michigan reports filed in 1978.
- Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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