Light over Detroit, MI

The report, as filed

I drive from work in Michigan through Detroit to my home in Windsor, Ontario. On my drive, I often watch planes coming in or out of Metro Airport, or helicopters, often with searchlights over the city. Last night was overcast with high clouds. I spotted a white light I assumed was a plane headed to the airport. Only one light, no multiple or red lights like a plane. More like a satellite, but it was cloudy. It was coming over downtown from the east like planes to the airport would. But, it was moving significantly faster than any jet or helicopter. Not streaking across the sky, but 4 or 5 times faster than any jet coming in to land. It appeared to change direction headed south, but the freeway I was on has curves, so it may have just been that. But, it headed south over Windsor, and disappeared over the horizon. Planes come into the airport from the east over Windsor/Detroit. They do not turn south over Windsor & disappear over the horizon. The whole sighting was 30 to 60 seconds. Watching a plane come in from the east, it's visible a good 2-3 minutes. It did not seem to change speed. But it moved significantly faster than any jet - including the occasional fighter jet from Selfrige AFB north east of Detroit. As I said, it resembled a white light like a satellite, but it was cloudy with high clouds, and this was below the clouds. Other than the speed, direction, and being a single white light, it would have been something I've seen hundreds of times on this drive. But this was definately not that. It was easily several times faster than any jet headed to land, and it went the wrong direction, actually crossing at a right angle where jets coming from the he west turn around to head west to the air port.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #153277). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.