CaseOval1983
Detroit, MI, USA
(Mid-1983) In my backyard on clear, warm afternoon day on East-side of Detroit with 2 friends, looking up we spotted an oval shaped UFO
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1983-06-01
- Where
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 42.331, -83.046 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-detroit-mi-1983-db4604
In context
- This is one of 94 reports logged in Detroit, MI.
- This case is one of 13 Michigan reports filed in 1983.
- Oval craft made up 5.2% of 1980s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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