Jackson, MI, USA
In Jackson, Michigan on July 15, 1965, a witness reported a glowing white, rectangular-shaped light moving slowly at a very low altitude for several minutes.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (157 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-07-15
- Where
- Jackson, MI, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- minutes
- Geo
- 42.246, -84.401 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-jackson-mi-1965-9b7173
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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
- Jackson, MI has 34 sightings on file here.
- 1965 brought 6 reports from Michigan.
- The 1960s skewed 0.9% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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