CaseFormation1978
Saginaw, MI, USA
witnessed formation that came to a stop,turned suddenly went different way and disappeared
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 (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-08-14
- Where
- Saginaw, MI, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 43.419, -83.951 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-saginaw-mi-1978-cbc89a
Wave
Part of a wave
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Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil
The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…
In context
- This is one of 25 reports logged in Saginaw, MI.
- This case is one of 24 Michigan reports filed in 1978.
- Formation craft made up 1.3% of 1970s reports, vs 3.3% 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.