Triangle over Bridgman, MI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
The objest was Triagular, turned from red to orange to white, and shot what looked like giant sparks from it.
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 2002-05-29 → 2002-06-15
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September 1, 2022 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Bridgman, MI
At 10pm my wife, son, and I headed to the beach from our campsite that we just set up. We wanted to sit on the beach, check out the stars and go for a walk up the shore. After our walk, we sat down and noticed two lights that we thought were planes, that were a bit too close together foughly a mile or two over Lake MI. The one light then moved quickly to the right. Both started moving up and down and side to side. One then got much brighter, shot over to the right(several miles) in a second. It the flew higher into the sky and expelled 4 other lights that all started independently flying. Another light came from what looked like the water. At one point on light went straight up into the air at an amazing rate of speed. There was another light that appeared to go very quickly into the water too. . We watched for about an hour and my wife and son were getting very nervous and asked to leave. I'm not saying I saw something from another planet, but I have absolutely no idea what we were seeing and ai know a human could not withstand the force being in one of those things with how fast they moved. I just can't image man being able to make something that moved like these things. They would sometimes get very bright and then fade back. Some were green/white and another was red. It was one of the strange things that I have ever seen in my life.
July 8, 2020 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Bridgman, MI
Was sitting outside smoking a cigarette as usual. I will state that at one or another time I have seen what i believe to be strange things but never anything that was too crazy. Well anyways me and my girlfriend were outside on my back deck (we live on the top floor of an apartment building) we see a light start to come across the sky. I only have a fair amount of area to see but its not a small amount though. It comes from our left the direction im facing is west. It blinks a white to possibly blue light a couple of times then it turns off its light and accelerates itself and i would say it actually switched directions but I could have percieved that wrong. But it accelerates itself multiple times like it would speed up then slow down for a second then speed back up. When it switched directions it came over top of us towards bridman headed east it was high up and pretty much invisible unless you could could see the outline of it in the clouds. My girlfriend saw the light i saw it when the light when out i could see an outline of it and i dont know for sure but it kind of had a cicular shape to it in the clouds but before i knew it passed over the building i ran outside but it was gone. At least i couldnt find it anymore.
March 17, 2015 · 10:20 PM · LIGHT
Bridgman, MI
Amateur radio operators are well aware of recent sun spot activity, as it affects short wave communications. "On Tuesday, March 17 a CME struck Earth producing the largest geomagnetic storm of the current solar cycle. Aurora was visible all the way down to the central United States. The planetary A index for the day was 117, an incredibly high number." http://www.arrl.org/news/the-k7ra-solar-update-366 A ham operator decided to have a look at the "northern lights". Weko Beach, Bridgman, Michigan, offered an excellent view of the northern sky. An excellent photographer this person took a series of relatively high resolution photos of the aurora with his Nikon D7000. Can get probably get the exact camera settings, nomenclature and lens info if you need it. Rough coordinates for the Weko Beach (public) are: 41° 57' N; 86° 45' W. If you like I can get the exact coordinates from a signpost on the beach. As the ham club newsletter editor and friend, the photographer sent me two of several photos taken. They are: DSC_7510.jpg; 8.6mb; 17Mar15, 22:20 local time (EDT). DSC_7525.jpg; 9.1mb; 17Mar15, 22:32 local time (EDT). Zoom, ?x. As a UFO buff, I saw an unidentified string of lights in 7525. Reminded me of the Phoenix Lights from a distance. Looking back at 7510, I believe there's a barely visible thin black line in the aurora that I can't explain. BTW, the orange in the foreground seems to be light (perhaps moonlight) as it reflected off of the sand covered ice mounds at the Weko Beach shoreline. The somewhat annoying lights are DC Cook nuclear plant flood lights. Installed after 911, they have destroyed the ambiance of the night-time experience along this part of the Eastern shore of Lake Michigan. Another price we pay for defending against terrorism.
March 17, 2015 · 10:20 PM · UNKNOWN
Bridgman, MI
A ham operator decided to have a look at the "northern lights". Weko Beach, Bridgman, Michigan, offered an excellent view of the northern sky. An excellent photographer this person took a series of relatively high resolution photos of the aurora with his Nikon D7000. Can get probably get the exact camera settings, nomenclature and lens info if you need it. Rough coordinates for the Weko Beach (public) are: 41° 57' N; 86° 45' W. If you like I can get the exact coordinates from a signpost on the beach. As the ham club newsletter editor and friend, the photographer sent me two of several photos taken. They are: DSC_7510.jpg; 8.6mb; 17Mar15, 22:20 local time (EDT). DSC_7525.jpg; 9.1mb; 17Mar15, 22:32 local time (EDT). Zoom
May 28, 2013 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Bridgman, MI
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Bridgman, MI
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