CaseOval1977

St. Joseph, MI, USA

Detailed Observation of Hovering UFO in St. Joseph, Michigan on July 30, 1977

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (77 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-06-30
Where
St. Joseph, MI, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
42.110, -86.480 · exact
Slug
oval-over-st-joseph-mi-1977-c60262
Wave

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In context

  • St. Joseph, MI shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 12 reports came from Michigan in 1977.
  • In the 1970s, 6.9% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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