UFOMYST
CaseDisk1977

Kalamazoo, MI, USA

Close encounter near Kalamazoo

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (30 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-11-15
Where
Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
2 min
Geo
42.292, -85.587 · exact
Slug
disk-over-kalamazoo-mi-1977-848ee2
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Kalamazoo, MI has 46 sightings on file here.
  • 1977 brought 12 reports from Michigan.
  • The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.