UFOMYST
CaseDisk1977

Grand Rapids, MI, USA

1977 my siblings and I saw a huge disc shaped UFO with revolving lights and lots of windows hovering in front of us.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (116 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-07-20
Where
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
42.963, -85.668 · exact
Slug
disk-over-grand-rapids-mi-1977-de54fc
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Grand Rapids, MI has 121 sightings on file here.
  • 1977 brought 12 reports from Michigan.
  • The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

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