CaseFormation1971
Hancock (vicinity), MI, USA
Three very bright nocturnal lights on approx 40-degree angle. Approx 150-200 yds from 1st to 3rd light. Approx 1 mile from observers, a
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: 330s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-07-15
- Where
- Hancock (vicinity), MI, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 - 6 min.
- Geo
- 47.127, -88.581 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-hancock-vicinity-mi-1971-d4d0cf
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Hancock (vicinity), MI.
- This case is one of 4 Michigan reports filed in 1971.
- Formation craft made up 1.3% of 1970s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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