Michigan "swamp gas" UFO reports

A drawing of a 'football-shaped' UFO with a 'quilted' or 'waffled' texture that reportedly landed in a marsh near Dexter, Michigan on May 20, 1966. It was one of two mass sightings dismissed as being caused by swamp gas.[1]

The Michigan "swamp gas" UFO reports were two mass sightings of unidentified flying objects during the nights of March 20 and 21, 1966, in Michigan, United States. The first occurred around marshland near Dexter, while the second mass-sighting took place near the campus arboretum of Hillsdale College, about 50 miles away.[2][3] The sightings took place amid a wave (or 'flap') of UFO reports throughout southern Michigan. After the reports were attributed to swamp gas by Air Force civilian investigator J. Allen Hynek, the explanation was widely derided. US congressman Gerald Ford called for a formal Congressional investigation into the sightings.[4]

  1. ^ "Drawing of UFO Sighted at Mannor Farm in 1966 | Ann Arbor District Library". aadl.org.
  2. ^ "Flying Saucers and Swamp Gas | Bentley Historical Library".
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference WKAR was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Peebles, Watch the Skies "Swamp Gas" p.203-207