UFOMYST
CaseFlash1978

West Bloomfield, MI, USA

Flash -Red Beam - Green Beam - Flash

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (36 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-08-15
Where
West Bloomfield, MI, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
44.221, -88.972 · fallback
Slug
flash-over-west-bloomfield-mi-1978-ed1940
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • One of 14 documented reports from West Bloomfield, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 24 sightings in 1978.
  • Flash sightings ran at 0.5% during the 1970s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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