Mancelona, MI, USA
We thought our foster daughter was kidding us, until we saw the metallic saucer shaped object humming loudly over the Michigan farmland
Report quality: High73/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 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
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 44.902, -85.061 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-mancelona-mi-1978-850ba8
Part of a wave
Colares & Operação Prato
Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil
The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Mancelona, MI reports filed in June 1978.
In context
- Mancelona, MI shows up 7 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%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.