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
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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
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.