CaseFireball1982
Swartz Creek, MI, USA
blazing sphere across the southern sky from 1982
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1982-10-01
- Where
- Swartz Creek, MI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 to 4 minutes
- Geo
- 42.957, -83.831 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-swartz-creek-mi-1982-5ad3bb
In context
- Swartz Creek, MI has 7 sightings on file here.
- 1982 brought 7 reports from Michigan.
- The 1980s skewed 2.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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