CaseDisk1977

Southgate, MI, USA

Round aircraft, high in sky, had depth or height to it, square windows that spun fast with lights round and round - 100's witnesses

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-03-27
Where
Southgate, MI, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
42.214, -83.194 · exact
Slug
disk-over-southgate-mi-1977-29ce0d
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 7 reports logged in Southgate, MI.
  • This case is one of 12 Michigan reports filed in 1977.
  • Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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