Ferndale, MI, USA
Police officers in Royal Oak and Ferndale, Michigan, reported watching an oval-shaped object from the roof of the Royal Oak Police Station during a one-minute sighting in September 1966.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (186 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-09-15
- Where
- Ferndale, MI, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 42.461, -83.135 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-ferndale-mi-1966-8f3123
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Ferndale, MI has 3 sightings on file here.
- 1966 brought 18 reports from Michigan.
- The 1960s skewed 6.6% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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