CaseLight1996
Detroit, MI, USA
I was a commuter airline pilot at the time (co-pilot). We were flying from Pittsburg, PA to Saginaw, michigan at an altitude of 16,000
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-02-27
- Where
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 42.331, -83.046 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-detroit-mi-1996-9f1a86
In context
- This is one of 94 reports logged in Detroit, MI.
- This case is one of 30 Michigan reports filed in 1996.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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