CaseUnknown1978
Detroit (metro area), MI, USA
Detroit UFO Flap of February 1978
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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
- Brief witness text (33 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-02-01
- Where
- Detroit (metro area), MI, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1-2 Months
- Geo
- 42.331, -83.046 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-detroit-metro-area-mi-1978-e6a066
Wave
Part of a wave
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In context
- Detroit (metro area), MI has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1978 brought 24 reports from Michigan.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.