CaseOval1966

Dearborn, MI, USA

Sighted, followed and was followed by spacecraft.

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1966-03-31
Where
Dearborn, MI, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
42.322, -83.176 · exact
Slug
oval-over-dearborn-mi-1966-959c05
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

In context

  • Dearborn, MI shows up 25 times across the archive.
  • 18 reports came from Michigan in 1966.
  • In the 1960s, 6.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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