Grand Rapids, MI, USA
I submitted this report back in 2005. I have been reviewing my report from that time. There are a couple of things that are incorrect.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-01-12
- Where
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.963, -85.668 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-grand-rapids-mi-1978-652af0
Part of a wave
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In context
- Grand Rapids, MI shows up 121 times across the archive.
- 24 reports came from Michigan in 1978.
- In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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