UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1978

Brighton, MI, USA

Southeast Michigan UFO flap February 1978

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (41 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-02-09
Where
Brighton, MI, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2 Hours
Geo
42.529, -83.780 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-brighton-mi-1978-88d3dc
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Brighton, MI has 24 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 24 reports from Michigan.
  • The 1970s skewed 7.9% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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