Circle over Van Buren Township, MI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
When I got as close as I was going to get to the lights that’s when it hit me that I was looking at a UFO. There were five bright lights in a perfect circular pattern hovering stationary right off the interstate. I quickly pulled my phone out and took the best picture I could. The objects stayed in the same spot for as far as I could see until I got off the interstate. I called my coworker who starts his shift an hour after me and takes the same way to work. I describe to him exactly where and what I saw and asked if he seen anything, but he said that he didn’t see any lights in the sky around that area.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #148929). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-09-15 → 2019-10-02