CaseSphere1997
Lawton (outside) (Bankson Lake), MI, USA
Green balls of light like fireballs summer 97 near woods of Bankson Lake
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-06-15
- Where
- Lawton (outside) (Bankson Lake), MI, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 42.167, -85.847 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-lawton-outside-bankson-lake-mi-1997-5178ff
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Lawton (outside) (Bankson Lake), MI shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 46 reports came from Michigan in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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