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Cigar over Dearborn Heights, MI

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U.F.O Witness who sees strange craft willing to take polygraph on National T.V.

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September 13, 2017 · 8:30 PM · CHANGING

Dearborn Heights, MI

I was in my back yard in the city of Dearborn Heights, Michigan, and observed a pulsating object in the sky. I quickly started filming the object with my 4k video camera on a tripod. The object appeared stationary, yet changed shape and color. I managed to capture video and still images which were captured from the video itself. Other people also reported seeing this object on social media. I am a retired police pilot with a commercial rating. I have never seen an aircraft with these characteristics. We spoke with the witness via telephone, and viewed the video he forwarded to NUFORC. We suspect that what he was observing was a "twinkling" star, and given that he was looking to the west, the most likely candidate, we believe, is the star called, "Arcturus." PD

September 26, 2015 · 11:20 PM · OTHER

Dearborn Heights, MI

I just got home from a family function and went to look at the full moon. I saw 3 or 4 bright orange orbs in the sky traveling slowly to the north west. They were pretty close in proximity but not in formation and were diverging from each other slightly then returning. They appeared to be separate and distinct entities with very fluid motion. They appeared to be low in the sky and I lost them behind some trees. I have seen stars, satellites, planes, auroras, etc and this is the first object I have seen like this. I don't know what they were but UFO is actually foremost in my mind.

June 21, 2015 · 11:10 AM · UNKNOWN

Dearborn Heights, MI

On 6/21/2015, at about 11:10pm, in the western sky, an entity slowly came into view from further west. Only the lights were visible, which were 2 red, 1 green, and 2 neon purple (more like blacklights) lights all intermittently flashing, as it stopped just to the lower left of the moon. You could hear no sound from it. After about 3 or 4 minutes, it literally disappeared, as if it just turned all of its lights off at once. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

June 17, 2012 · 8:00 PM · DISK