Hope, MI, USA
Slow moving object changing colors then in a matter of seconds was back where it started and descended slowly behind the tree line.
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 (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-10-30
- Where
- Hope, MI, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 43.764, -84.338 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-hope-mi-1977-598112
Part of a wave
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In context
- Hope, MI has 2 sightings on file here.
- 1977 brought 12 reports from Michigan.
Report
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