CaseCigar1966
Garden City, MI, USA
Football Shaped craft seen over Detroit suburb (1966)
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-08-01
- Where
- Garden City, MI, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5-7 seconds
- Geo
- 42.326, -83.331 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-garden-city-mi-1966-cc9ffc
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- This is one of 13 reports logged in Garden City, MI.
- This case is one of 18 Michigan reports filed in 1966.
- Cigar craft made up 7% of 1960s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.