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UFO case file · UFO-38827

Canada reported unidentified aerial event — 1980-04-21 — Lincoln Park, Mich.

CE3Canada1980-04-21

Lincoln Park, Mich., Canada

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Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Canada reported unidentified aerial event — 1980-04-21 — Lincoln Park, Mich.
Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Canada reported unidentified aerial event — 1980-04-21 — Lincoln Park, Mich.

Case description

The source fragment is a multi-day log headed April 21 through 30, with 1980 supplied by the imported record. It contains observations around Lincoln Park and neighbouring Downriver communities, including Wyandotte, Ecorse, Allen Park, Dearborn, Detroit and La Salle. An imported single start date and Canadian country label do not adequately describe this geographical and chronological coverage. The OCR lists small points, bands, dots and a planform, but its repeated abbreviations are not securely defined. Different entries occur at different times and places; a white dot or wire-like band in one line must not be combined with another line into a detailed machine. The writer mentions a change to eastern daylight time and, in the final entry, difficulty viewing a feature from home because of smog and clouds. Those are contextual log details, not an encounter sequence with a landed object. The original scan has not yet been matched conclusively, leaving the author's identity, the imported year, precise shorthand and independent follow-up unverified. The text does not identify beings or occupants, and apparent alien wording elsewhere in these logs occurs in place-name shorthand compatible with Allen Park. The reconstruction labels its source-limited context and final-entry weather, with an illustrative observer and unresolved distant light. It adds no spacecraft hull or nonhuman figure.

Recorded details

Coordinate precision
Source-provided or normalized location; precision not increased beyond source.
Date precision
EXACT_DAY

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