UFOMYST
CaseFireball1997

Lawton, MI, USA

Green glowing fireballs in the woods near Bankson Lake in Lawton, MI

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-15
Where
Lawton, MI, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
I only observed for 5-10
Geo
42.167, -85.847 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-lawton-mi-1997-5e14fe
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Lawton, MI shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 46 reports came from Michigan in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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