UFOMYST
CaseSphere1967

Detroit, MI, USA

huge metal ball shaped ship hanging low in air then moved away at 2 o'clock angle at great speed.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1967-06-15
Where
Detroit, MI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1min
Geo
42.331, -83.046 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-detroit-mi-1967-e8f5ff
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    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'…

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In context

  • Detroit, MI has 94 sightings on file here.
  • 1967 brought 2 reports from Michigan.
  • The 1960s skewed 7.8% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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