CaseOval1971
Big Rapids, MI, USA
Witnesses in Big Rapids, Michigan reported an oval-shaped flying object observed for about ten minutes in July 1971, which the account says was eventually pursued by SAC aircraft.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (179 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-07-15
- Where
- Big Rapids, MI, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 43.698, -85.484 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-big-rapids-mi-1971-9cbf5d
Don't stop here
Next caseOval · Hesperia, MIsame oval · 47 kmContinue the trail
One more hop — same place, same craft, or the next signal on the graph.
In context
- One of 6 documented reports from Big Rapids, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Michigan logged 4 sightings in 1971.
- Oval sightings ran at 6.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 4.3%).
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.
End of report
Keep going
One more hop — same place, same craft, or the next signal on the graph.