UFOMYST
CaseOval1997

Harbor Springs, MI, USA

It was a large oval shaped object with white lights (surrounding) moving in a circular motion.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-03
Where
Harbor Springs, MI, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
45.432, -84.992 · exact
Slug
oval-over-harbor-springs-mi-1997-7b9cc2
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Harbor Springs, MI has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 46 reports from Michigan.
  • The 1990s skewed 3.6% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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