Chevron over Clinton Township, MI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Large, intense fiery orange light centered in a chevron, moving silently and slowly in the low night sky.
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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June 29, 2022 · 4:16 AM · SPHERE
Clinton Township, MI
Approximately 4:16a my partner had a random urge to check the window. I did not actually know what he was doing, as the window was behind me. He was standing there for a good five minutes before I inquired what he was doing. He said, "I'm looking at this huge star. It's the only one out there.". He asked me to come look at it to see if it was a planet or the north star. I was actually shocked when I saw it. It was much too low to be a star or a planet and it was glaringly white. I continued to look at trying to figure out what it was when I noticed it was actually changing color and I could see a reddish/orange flashing. The entire time we viewed this object, it did not drift, go up or down, it was stationary. I told him that I was seeing the color change and he said he noticed other colors; green, blue, red, orange. We stepped onto our front porch and I asked to use his iphone to zoom in with the camera for a better look. That's when I saw it was clearly not a plane or a planet and it was moving within itself in a triangular pattern. There was also a slight halo type shine around it. I showed my partner and he took the phone and tried to get an even clearer shot of it. When he zoomed in, we could clearly see that it was rapidly moving in the triangular pattern INSIDE itself but still looked like a sphere and was still hovering, stationary. It was eerie. There were no birds, no bugs, it was very still and silent even though this object was a considerable distance. By this time, we noticed the object was getting dim. It appeared that it was going in the direction away from us and slow enough that we could see it getting more dim the further away it was getting until it quite literally disappeared. There were no trails, no smoke, no anything left behind. The sky was significantly lighter in that area oddly, despite it still being dark out. Meaning, that the sky was blue. Not black. It was very strange. After it was gone, it went back to being black. We live in a mobile home park. There are so many trees and homes that block our view in that direction that we thought it was quite strange that it appeared directly in our line of sight, low enough to make it easy to rule out that it was not a plane, planet or star. It feels like it wanted us to know it was there and when we had figured out what it was, or rather wasn't, it left. It was also strange that my partner felt the urge, for seemingly no reason at all, to get up and go to the window.
March 7, 2020 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Clinton Township, MI
Whilst taking my dogs out, in the western sky a light appeared. The light zoomed off towards the ordinal direction of the northeastern variety. After traveling an interval of 5 ticks on a pocket watch, another light appeared at the spawning location of its brother. The second took off with the same trajectory and speed as its older sibling. In 5 seconds, the thrice light appeared, and speeded off in exact pursuit of the last. This happened another 4 times, for a total of 7. The lights following one another disappeared behind the cloud cover of a warm late winters eve.
July 15, 2017 · 11:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Clinton Township, MI
Probably a hoax. Source of report submits bogus e-mail and telephone number. Witness does not forward alleged photographic evidence. PD
July 16, 2016 · 10:20 PM · FORMATION
Clinton Township, MI
4 amber/red lights, formed a square. 2 lower lights moved towards each other crossing paths. Then just vanished.
September 3, 2014 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Clinton Township, MI
I live on the 7th floor of an apartment house with a balcony on the west side of the building. I watch the sunsets nightly, weather permitting. This particular night, the sunset filled the western sky with a brilliant orange, fading to the color of a blood orange. All of a sudden, I noticed what looked like a fluorescent light tube in the sky,in front of the sunset. It was perfectly vertical, appeared to be emitting it's own light and not moving, although the sunset was sinking below the horizon behind this tube. The tube remained illuminated in a white light. It remained stationary until the sunset was gone and at that point it began to fade until I could no longer see it. To get an idea of the size of the tube, I held my arm out at full length and it was the size of my little finger at arms length.
July 23, 2014 · 11:40 PM · SPHERE
Clinton Township, MI
First sighting was one glowing orb shining bright orange, dimming to red. It disappeared in thin air, then another appeared. Then after it, 2 more. All moving across the sky. They could not be mistaken for lanterns, as they appeared above the tree line, moved across the sky then disappearing. Saw the same thing last year, but last time there were about 10.