Manistee, MI, USA
A witness in Manistee, Michigan reported a silent, saucer-shaped object moving north to south directly overhead for about eight seconds in October 1954.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (152 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
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Part of a wave
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.…
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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