CaseCigar1947
Whitmore Lake, MI, USA
Dec. 24, 1947 cigar shaped lighted object above the trees near Ann Arbor, Michigan
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-12-24
- Where
- Whitmore Lake, MI, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20 Min.
- Geo
- 42.440, -83.745 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-whitmore-lake-mi-1947-d0a749
Wave
Part of a wave
The Summer of the Saucers
United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)
Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…
In context
- Whitmore Lake, MI shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Michigan in 1947.
- In the 1940s, 7.8% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
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.