Mancelona, MI, USA
On a warm summer night, we saw a saucer shaped UFO that hummed very loudly.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-06-15
- Where
- Mancelona, MI, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 44.902, -85.061 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-mancelona-mi-1978-790c58
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Local cluster
3 reports came out of Mancelona, MI in June 1978 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Mancelona, MI has 7 sightings on file here.
- 1978 brought 24 reports from Michigan.
- The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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