Mancelona, MI, USA
The craft hummed loudly, was saucer shaped and had lights that were rotating around the edge.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 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-1978-8f2eee
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Local cluster
June 1978 was a busy month for Mancelona, MI: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 7 reports logged in Mancelona, MI.
- This case is one of 24 Michigan reports filed in 1978.
- Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
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.