CaseOther1973
Three Rivers, MI, USA
Yellowish/Orange object seen in early 70's SW Michigan.
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-07-01
- Where
- Three Rivers, MI, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 15-20 minutes
- Geo
- 41.944, -85.632 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-three-rivers-mi-1973-5786ca
Wave
Part of a wave
The Great 1973 Flap
United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest
With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…
In context
- Three Rivers, MI has 10 sightings on file here.
- 1973 brought 3 reports from Michigan.
- The 1970s skewed 6.5% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.