Triangle over Westland, MI
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The report, as filed
Possible Metro Detroit U.F.O.
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 2010-10-28 → 2010-11-14
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July 4, 2023 · 10:33 PM · CHANGING
Westland, MI
I was in the field behind Adams school in Westland MI watching the fireworks people were setting off all around me. I bring a swivel chair so I can turn and see them 360. Facing to the south west I noticed a blue UFO not moving. It was pulsing down to a smaller darker shape and back to blue. After about 5 or 10 minutes I saw a smaller red dot at the 5 oclick position light on and off of this thing. I don't know how long it was there because I was watching the fireworks. After about ten minutes watching this thing I ran over to my nearest neighbors who where outside and told them. They said they would be there in a minute so I went back and watched it. About 5 minutes later it quickly descended straight down below the tree line and was gone. Then I saw what looked like a typical sky lantern moving past me and said to myself “that's moving way to fast to be a sky lantern and it also had a white/light area around it like an aura much bigger than the sky lantern in the middle with darker spots within the white aura. I did not see where it started but moved past me and on the other side of the tree about 100 feet away. I estimate the speed at 40 to 60 miles per hour and about 80 feet off the ground and as it came past the tree the white area around it dissipated and it then looked like a sky lantern. It quickly gained altitude and within a few minutes dissapeared. Shortly after than my neighbors came up to me and said it was all over Facebook. They showed me a video which looked like it. The whole encounter lasted 15-20 minutes, maybe a bit more.
October 22, 2022 · 7:39 PM · CIRCLE
Westland, MI
It just hovered in the sky not sure what it was
September 20, 2022 · 8:09 PM · LIGHT
Westland, MI
Seen a light hovering thought it was a plane but it went backward then shot forward
July 17, 2020 · 4:30 AM · CIRCLE
Westland, MI
First spotted one at 10:30 pm, circular,lights around,top lights big,looking like glowing eyes, with a longer strait ship following behind. It sat mid air,no sound for 25 min before slowly moving foward. It spun on it's axis occasionally. At 4 am I went out to smoke, seen 3 craft, put on shoes and walked 6 blocks to 711, counted over 30 at various points in sky. Some close,some way up,it was a clear night,also some smaller oval shaped craft, I could look right up and see, clarity in sky was perfect. Next day,bout 7 pm, I seen one behind some cloud cover. That evening,circular craft, but counted like 12 to 15. Last night seen about 5 ,but they were further off, only one closer to the point could be seen clearly. The 4am walk,I called pd, airport PD,news, border patrol,. I showed a Westland PD officer, he and several others said it was a plane,but it never moved and finally turned showing circular shape. No one knew what it was.
May 3, 2020 · 10:03 PM · LIGHT
Westland, MI
At 22:02 I stepped outside to my back patio for some fresh air. At 22:03 I noticed what appeared to be the ISS moving from the west to a east northeast path. A few seconds later, I noticed another light from the same direction following the first light. So now I know it is not the ISS. I make a phone call to a friend at 10:04pm, no answer. I yell inside the house for my family to come and witness what I am seeing. More keep coming, in a single line path. My two sons come out on to the patio and they help me spot each one as they fly from the west. At 22:13 I called another friend, he lives 3 miles south of me. He did see the last 4 objects. We counted 25 of these lights. They looked like the ISS flying over, orange light, similar speed as the ISS, and no sound. I'm just not sure if these objects were inside the atmosphere or not. It looked like they were entering the atmosphere from the west and leaving it in the east northeast sky. For the record, the ISS, or no other satellites, were scheduled to fly over at this time. I tried recoding a video. The objects would not show up on my phone. There was a very bright white 3/4 moon just a few degrees south of the line if direction these objects were moving.
December 26, 2019 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Westland, MI
Hundreds of lights traveling same speed in the same direction, not flashing lights. Extremely high in the sky. Traveling opposite of the cloud and wind direction. Typically in formation of triangles or grids of 3-5 crafts. This has been going on for over 30 min. There were other commercial airplanes flying in the opposite direction. These lights were scattered over many miles in all directions, not just a straight line.