UFOMYST
CaseChanging1997

Kalamazoo, MI, USA

Bright ball of light, split into two balls of lights, then rejoined itself, changed color and shape repeatedly

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-19
Where
Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
15 + minutes
Geo
42.292, -85.587 · exact
Slug
changing-over-kalamazoo-mi-1997-f4951c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Kalamazoo, MI shows up 46 times across the archive.
  • 46 reports came from Michigan in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 1.9% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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