As reported

Fireball over Cedar Springs, MI

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The report, as filed

Driving north on US 131, approximately one mile south of the Cedar Springs exit. A bright round light appeared in the sky, as bright as a headlight. About the size of a quarter in our perspective. It appeared and then shot a short distance, leaving a tale then disappeared. We assume a nighttime sighting, and have amended the time above. PD

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #122094). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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July 22, 2022 · 9:47 PM · CIGAR

Cedar Springs, MI

2 Friends and I were sitting out on the back deck behind the house which has an open sky to the north and west over the 131 highway. I noticed what I initially thought was a cloud as I looked up casually but it was moving strangely. It had a defined shape and was moving against the wind and direction of the other clouds in the sky. It was solid, light grey in shape and was completely matte. There was no reflection of light from sunset. It was so strange that I pointed to it and said, "Hey, what is that thing?". They turned and saw the same object, headed north. Just floating fast across the sky. It's shape did not change at all, it was a large metallic object like a cigar or a cylinder. My friend said, " Whoa! What the f**k is that?!" and the other friend also exclaimed, " Dude that, uhhhh..." and then the object lit up bright green and began to sporadically shimmer with round green lights all along the bottom quarter of the rounded craft, the rest of my friends sentence was, " uhhhh... Guys it's lighting up!?" and then it turned invisible and the lights remained a moment. and then the lights all dimmed into nothing and it was completely gone. We talked about it and came to the conclusion that we'd just seen a ufo of some kind and we were very excited. About an hour later we were still out on the deck after sunset and about 20 or so white lights started zipping across the sky in all directions, some flashing and pulsing, others traveling together and passing each other. A flash would occur, then a bright light would appear moving from the flash across the sky in a straight line. These lights were brighter than anything else in the sky. And then nothing. It was the strangest and most amazing thing I have ever seen in my life.

December 30, 2017 · 5:30 PM · RECTANGLE

Cedar Springs, MI

while looking through my orion space probe 130st telescope I got for Xmas I noticed a twinkling of multi color lights on a heading of 123 degrees from my house at about a 20 degree angle into the sky about halfway from the moon to the horizon. At first I thought it was a commercial jet but it rarely moved I'm sorry I am not more accurate but I am just learning to use the telescope I focused the target scope of the twinkling lights and then looked through the lens and saw a square of (16?) multi colored lights with light rays emitting from each of the equal sides I called my wife up and she saw the same thing. Today I used google earth to plot the direction and the local Ionia prison is about 45km away on the same degree heading. Maybe I saw prison yard lights but at that distance they were so high in the sky I don't know how that is possible. If you can help direct me to someone that might help me decipher what I saw it would be appreciated.

January 19, 2016 · 8:49 AM · UNKNOWN

Cedar Springs, MI

Watched a bright white light in the Eastern sky. It was strange because the sun was up and the light from the sun was hiding all stars. The white light dimmed after about 15 seconds to about 50% strength. 15 more seconds later, it disappeared completely. A meteor would have gradually dimmed. This was instantaneous change. As if thrusters went from full to half to zero strength.

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