CaseLight1998

Kaleva, MI, USA

Light approached from the SE; nother approached from the N; close proximinity. ((NUFORC Note: Satellites?? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (78 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
1998-05-17
Where
Kaleva, MI, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
7 minutes
Geo
44.373, -86.010 · exact
Slug
light-over-kaleva-mi-1998-a51a21

In context

  • Kaleva, MI shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 58 reports came from Michigan in 1998.
  • In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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