CaseDisk1966

Flint, MI, USA

Over Flint, Michigan in March 1966, a witness reported five glowing orange saucer-shaped objects moving toward the southeast, visible for about three seconds.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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  • Duration parsed: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (158 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-03-15
Where
Flint, MI, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
43.013, -83.687 · exact
Slug
disk-over-flint-mi-1966-652220
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Wave

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  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

In context

  • Flint, MI shows up 57 times across the archive.
  • 18 reports came from Michigan in 1966.
  • In the 1960s, 23.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

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