UFOMYST
CaseCircle1954

Manistee, MI, USA

Saucer shaped, moved north to south directly above the street, no sound, moon was to the east

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (93 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1954-10-15
Where
Manistee, MI, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
8 seconds
Geo
44.244, -86.324 · exact
Slug
circle-over-manistee-mi-1954-1bcc7e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1954

    The Great French Wave

    France, spilling into Italy, Spain, and Latin America

    The densest close-encounter wave ever recorded: landed domed objects on country roads, paralysis beams, and small suited occupants, reported by farmers and gendarmes across rural France at a rate of several per night.…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Manistee, MI shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 2 reports came from Michigan in 1954.
  • In the 1950s, 10% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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