UFOMYST
CaseRectangle1977

Wixom, MI, USA

4th of July UFO in 1977, my husband and friend watched a large UFO go over our townhouse complex.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-07-04
Where
Wixom, MI, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
42.525, -83.536 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-wixom-mi-1977-3591b6
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Wixom, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 12 sightings in 1977.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 2.3% during the 1970s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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