Hillsdale, MI, USA
In Hillsdale, Michigan on March 21, 1966, a witness reported a large metallic disk-shaped object hovering in place for close to an hour.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (136 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-03-21
- Where
- Hillsdale, MI, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 hour?
- Geo
- 41.920, -84.631 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-hillsdale-mi-1966-be89f6
Part of a wave
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
- One of 4 documented reports from Hillsdale, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Michigan logged 18 sightings in 1966.
- Disk sightings ran at 23.5% during the 1960s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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