Light over Onaway, MI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
While sitting on our back porch, which faces due east, I saw an extremely large, bright light. Most of the stars were "gone" due to the twilight. It wasn't blinking. There was no sound. It was a white light. Just a little smaller than a dime at arm's length. There are some trees about a block away and it was higher than them. It made a slight decent as it traveled from south to north then made a literal " right turn" and shot out of sight! It wasn't a sweeping turn, it was heading north then abruptly shot to the east in a blink!! The duration of the whole sighting was about 4 to 5 seconds. My husband and I are avid sky watchers and know satellites, jets and the Space Station when we see them. This wasn't any of those!! Hopefully someone else saw this and reported it somewhere!
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #119085). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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July 21, 2022 · 11:36 PM · UNKNOWN
Onaway, MI
My wife was on the back porch waiting for the dogs to come in. I was at the kitchen sink 15 feet away down the hall. She called me to "come an look at this light". When I got there, this light, what we thought was the ISS, stopped! It sat there motionlessly for about a minute. Then the light went off for a second then came back on as bright as first witnessed, then went off for a second and came back dimmer. Oh yeah, it was traveling from west to east. It repeated this same pattern of on bright then off, then back on dim, then off, then bright and so on. It was finally obscured by the neighbors trees. About two minutes later, I was looking east over the neighbors roof through a gap in his other trees, I saw a light come on for a second, go off, then came back on to the left, at the same elevation, then went off, and came back on to the right again, at a higher elevation, go off, then come back on to the left at the same elevation then no more. Its like it did a zig-zag, a Z, and that's it. My wife didn't see that part of the display! Hopefully we weren't the only witnesses to this sighting. It was as bright as the space station, which we see often. Satellites, jets, meteors, planes, star-link satellites are all pretty easy to discern! In 2013 we saw 2 fighter jets chasing an object. I sent you a report. Lots of witnesses to object!!! Never heard a word of it except the morning radio shows were bombarded with calls!! May 8th, 2013!!! Thanks for your work!!!
November 1, 2014 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Onaway, MI
I stepped out our back door,which faces due east,and immediately noticed a bright "star" where I know one isn't! For your reference,look up at Cassiopeia,extend your arms,and bend your wrists in so you can put four fingers on top of the other ones. About 8 fingers down from the bottom star of Cassiopeia and a little to the right, is a dim but noticeable star. There's a dimmer one close and to the right of that one. Just to the left of those stars, was a bright, not white but towards amber, light. It was brighter than a magnitude O star, which is why I noticed it as soon as I stepped out the door! It wasn't moving at all. I was torn between running in the house and grabbing my binoculars and staying put! I'm glad I stayed because at about 30 or 40 seconds, it just got dimmer till it was gone. It appeared to go directly "away" from my vantage point. No left to right deviation what so ever.
October 23, 2014 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Onaway, MI
Stepping onto my southerly facing deck, as always,I looked up at the stars. I looked to the west and noticed a bright single light heading my way. It was as bright as the space station. The color wasn't as white as the I.S.S. More towards amber. I've seen the space station many times,and I knew this wasn't it. It wasn't blinking, just constant. Earlier my buddy called to say he was looking at the eclipse. I wasn't prepared so I didn't see it. Anyway, I ran in the house and called him, and told him to go outside quick, as something was heading our way from the west. (He lives about 1/4 mile away). We both stayed on the phone and he said he saw it right away. There were no navigation lights, or sound, so we ruled out a jet or plane. It was heading just slightly southeast. If you pointed your left finger straight up at twelve o'clock high, and your right finger, two feet straight to the south, that is about the degrees in the sky the thing was, when, it abruptly vanished!! I don't know if it turned "right," from our vantage point, or just turned off the lights! It didn't zip away in the direction it was heading, it just wasn't there. It was a crystal clear night, so no clouds to go behind. We both were left wondering what we just witnessed. It was 8:30 or so. I'm wondering if we were the only two people in America who saw this! It appeared to be quite high, But hard to judge not knowing size. Incidentally, on April 19th, 2014, my wife, nephew and niece, witnessed almost the exact same "light", right from the same viewing spot, our deck. Everything almost identical, except the time. That one was at approximately 10:30 or so. My wife said, "Look!, here comes the space station! I said, no it's not!!
May 8, 2013 · 9:47 PM · TRIANGLE
Onaway, MI
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October 8, 2011 · 8:12 PM · LIGHT
Onaway, MI
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