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

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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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 days

Report

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