CaseCylinder1999
Central Lake, MI, USA
Saw shiny metallic object in NW sky at sunset, high on horizon. Appeared to be tilted at 45 degree angle, hovering high above horizon.
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: 2100s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-09-02
- Where
- Central Lake, MI, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 30-40 minutes
- Geo
- 45.070, -85.265 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-central-lake-mi-1999-596f24
In context
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Central Lake, MI.
- This case is one of 91 Michigan reports filed in 1999.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.4% of 1990s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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