UFOMYST
CaseSphere1977

Michigan City, IN, USA

Three colorful spheres passed close to me and my dog at night on the Lake Michigan shore.

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (89 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-08-12
Where
Michigan City, IN, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 - 2 minutes view
Geo
41.708, -86.895 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-michigan-city-in-1977-977724
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • One of 16 documented reports from Michigan City, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Indiana logged 17 sightings in 1977.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 6.1% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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