OPNS 0034 — 1956-08-08 — Northville, Michigan (Detroit House of Corrections)
Narrative
On 8 August 1956 at 0800Z, a 37-year-old prison guard at the Detroit House of Corrections on GOC post in Northville, Michigan observed a round football-sized white object that changed to dark red and intermittently disappeared and reappeared. The observer believed he heard the sound of an engine. The object moved southwest at about cloud height (clouds at 1,000 broken) and was still in sight when the report was made. 1/LT Senior Director suggested possibly the planet Mars shining through a temperature inversion or lighted weather balloons.
extracted via: llm_subagent_v1
Witnesses (1)
- LT Senior Director suggested possiblynamed_pattern
Source documents (1)
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- 23857158-011-044NARAvalue 1.0[direct]
Score evidence (6)
Why this event scored the way it did. Every contribution is traceable.
s
- weather balloon (-2.0)
- outcome=resolved_prosaic (cap S<=3)
- post-blend cap S<=3 (resolved_prosaic)
p
- docs=1 (+0.5)
- single agency (+0.5)
evid
- narrative only (base 1)