CaseOval1988
Detroit, MI, USA
Oval shape craft seen in cloudbank tilting back and forth.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-09-21
- Where
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 42.331, -83.046 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-detroit-mi-1988-b2feab
In context
- Detroit, MI has 94 sightings on file here.
- 1988 brought 7 reports from Michigan.
- The 1980s skewed 5.2% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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