CaseOval1978

Saint Clair Shores, MI, USA

Oval object, center portion having windows, internally lit with tall figures glaring out, seen in MI, spring eveng1978.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (119 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-03-01
Where
Saint Clair Shores, MI, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
3 minuts
Geo
42.497, -82.889 · exact
Slug
oval-over-saint-clair-shores-mi-1978-06e6d3
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from Saint Clair Shores, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 24 sightings in 1978.
  • Oval sightings ran at 6.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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