CaseLight1996
Saginaw, MI, USA
Commuter airliner w/ passengers turns, descends 12,500' to avoid a bizarre, extremely bright obj. directly ahead. Obj. could "jump."
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-02-27
- Where
- Saginaw, MI, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 8 min.
- Geo
- 43.419, -83.951 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-saginaw-mi-1996-493392
In context
- This is one of 25 reports logged in Saginaw, 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.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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