CaseSphere1968
Ironwood, MI, USA
Witnesses aboard a Piper Cherokee aircraft near Ironwood, Michigan, reported chasing a small spherical object that led them in a circle before passing below the plane, in February 1968.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (185 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-02-25
- Where
- Ironwood, MI, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 46.455, -90.171 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-ironwood-mi-1968-1fd065
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In context
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Ironwood, MI.
- This case is one of 5 Michigan reports filed in 1968.
- Sphere craft made up 7.8% of 1960s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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