CaseDisk1978

Taylor, MI, USA

Symbols on bottom in Michigan

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (29 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-30
Where
Taylor, MI, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5 mins.
Geo
42.241, -83.270 · exact
Slug
disk-over-taylor-mi-1978-e96c74
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 14 reports logged in Taylor, 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.