Coldwater, MI, USA
Observers a Cylinder shaft cross the road above us and in front of us and then depart the scene quickly after pacing the car we were in
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-08-03
- Where
- Coldwater, MI, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 10 mINUTES
- Geo
- 41.940, -85.001 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-coldwater-mi-1978-9423d5
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In context
- One of 11 documented reports from Coldwater, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Michigan logged 24 sightings in 1978.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 1.6%).
Report
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