CaseSphere1997

Jackson, MI, USA

Silver ball in Jackson MI

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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (25 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-15
Where
Jackson, MI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
>25 Seconds
Geo
42.246, -84.401 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-jackson-mi-1997-7e8aaf
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

In context

  • One of 34 documented reports from Jackson, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 46 sightings in 1997.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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