CaseSphere1965

Highland, MI, USA

Craft was large enough to see with the naked eye

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1965-07-24
Where
Highland, MI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
44.146, -85.266 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-highland-mi-1965-52965d
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

  • Highland, MI has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 1965 brought 6 reports from Michigan.
  • The 1960s skewed 7.8% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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