Sphere over Portage, MI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Two white balls of light about 30sec apart going ENE Very bright traveling in the same path
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 1998-01-31 → 1998-02-17
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September 4, 2023 · 9:28 PM · OVAL
Portage, MI
Walking Soutbound along Moorsbridge Rd in Portage MI and saw a line of 12 or so blue lights toward my East traveling in a straight line from the South, Northbound. They were visible for approx 2 minutes when I noticed them and as I turned around and followed them, they disappeared into the sky. They were not white lights in tonight’s sky, they were more of a blue hue. I checked the starlink website and the traveling directions and times do not match.
January 10, 2022 · 8:00 AM · OTHER
Portage, MI
On the way to work my friend who will remain nameless noticed the sunrise because I take photos of them and he caught more than the sunset. This is getting ridiculous 14 of them it’s the same class of the navy jet fighter video a oval shape with a point black doing imposible things. Go over photos make them black and white u will see them in the clouds and some out of it. The video slow down filter color and you will see it. This is real. 269 ((number deleted))
April 26, 2020 · 10:20 PM · LIGHT
Portage, MI
We were looking at Moon and Venus. A straight string of lights appeared under the Moon moving quickly from West Southwest to East. We saw them for about 30 seconds. They disappeared when they reach approx due South from our location. At first I thought it was a vapor trail being strangely illuminated but that was clearly not the case. The Ohio description from 4/8 was very consistent with what we saw. We didn't have time to count. Objects were in straight line but unevenly spaced. Tried to film with phone but were not successful.
October 5, 2019 · 8:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Portage, MI
Outside standing on porch from east to west a dark greyish/black rectangle craft was flying at a small airplane speed past westnedge Avenue at about 500-600feet off the ground. It did not make any noise. After watching watching it fly by for about 15-20 seconds it took off with very fast acceleration keeping the same height until i couldnt see it anymore in the distant clouds. It was very erie and seemed like a different power i didnt know man had the way it moved and also what is rectangle? U.S. government needs to get better at flying their military vehicles if they want to keep them a secret. Thisnis no lie,,, actually kinda freaked me out for a minute.
September 20, 2015 · 9:00 PM · CYLINDER
Portage, MI
20 September 2015 Observed 9:06-10:31pm When I went out to walk my dog I noticed 4 objects in the west sky in the following formation: X X X X They seemed to be sort of elongated, with different colour lights. I thought they looked a bit odd for planes, but figured that was what they where…they didn’t seem to be moving at all though. I walked the dog around the block (our neighbourhood is tree filled so I soon lost sight of them), and by the time I returned home some 20 minutes later, 3 of the objects had disappeared, but 1 (highlighted in yellow above.) remained. My husband and I looked at it thru binoculars, and from up close it didn’t look quite as long, (probably due to atmospheric conditions) but you could see it had blue, red, and green lights that blinked in rotation. It seemed to have small beams of pale light radiating a short distance from the underside of craft. It remained in the same position until we finally went inside.
July 24, 2015 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Portage, MI
On the 24th of July, at approximately 10pm, I saw a light very much like this one: https://www.facebook.com/david.almestica.92/videos/410474715809947/ It was bright, like a planet. It moved slowly from Northeast to Southeast. I watched as it stopped, grew brighter and bigger. Then it split into two and the lights moved quickly to the north. The whole event lasted about 5 min. It was the weirdest thing. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD