UFOMYST
CaseFireball1973

Inkster, MI, USA

I watched a ball of fire, as it flew at a sustained altitude, across the sky going east to west

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-03-15
Where
Inkster, MI, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
42.294, -83.310 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-inkster-mi-1973-f41022
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1973

    The Great 1973 Flap

    United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest

    With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…

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In context

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Inkster, MI.
  • This case is one of 3 Michigan reports filed in 1973.
  • Fireball craft made up 2.6% of 1970s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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