Westland, MI, USA
Approx 50-75 feet above us, 30-40 ft diameter, metal, saucer shaped UFO, colored lights all around, 2 bright white lights.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-04-19
- Where
- Westland, MI, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.324, -83.400 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-westland-mi-1978-4c2042
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In context
- Westland, MI has 23 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
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.