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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
3,082 entries
August 13, 2020 · 2:45 AM · UNKNOWN
Lansing, MI
Aprox 2:45am, bright light materialized in sky and with immense speed shot in what looked to be a south western direction before disappearing into another flash(almost like a bubble around the light mass, opened then closed), distance looked to be upper atmospheric or further.
August 13, 2020 · 2:30 AM · TEARDROP
Lansing, MI
Was on Moore's River Dr in Lansing on the first dock At river around 2:30 am I got out of my vehicle to look out into the river. Another man pulled up in his truck in middle of drive sat on his tailgate. Then a Bright White streak kinda resembled a shooting star with a tear drop at front of White streak all connected inside the teardrop was a burgundy light and the the other half was white light and also the streak was bright white . It was strange because it was headed west eye lever from dock like paralell. I couldn't believe my eyes and yelled; "did you see that?" Of course he said he did and he made a wish. I have seen several strange things in the night sky this year.. This one was the best so far.
August 13, 2020 · 2:23 AM · UNKNOWN
Au Train (Forest Lake), MI
My wife and I were camping in a rustic campground south of Au Train, MI in the Hiawatha National forest, Forest Lake campground (Cleveland Cliffs Basin) (46°18'20.2"N 86°52'04.4"W) - approximately 8 miles south of Au train, MI. We had met a younger couple camping on the campsite North of ours and got together as the early morning of the 13th of August 2020 approached. We all had decided we would take in the meteor shower down by the waters edge where viewing would be ideal. We had no light pollution and both campsites fires had not been lit for ideal viewing. We had a crescent moon due east reflecting off the water. We watched the meteor shower and shared stories and laughed into the night. At one point, the women from the campsite two sites to the south, voiced her displeasure with our laughter. The women also stated it was “two o’clock in the morning!”. I jokingly, but quietly asked, “exactly?” I then walked up to the truck out of curiosity. The truck’s clock was 0223. I walked back and we all were all about to retire when my wife said, “WHAT IS THAT?” We all then turned to the North and approximately 30 Degrees from the horizon moving from west to east was a spinning light between 1500 to 2000 feet AGL. The object was turning in a counterclockwise direction progressively spinning into itself while moving to the east. It also appeared to be disturbing the air around it; creating a cloud or aura that dissipated commensurately with the rate of travel. I was fixated on the spinning surface as the they appeared to mirage distorting the light. We were deep in the woods and you could have heard a pin drop - Zero sound. As the moon as a reference that night - the object was slightly larger. I served 26 years in the USAF and have physically touched most of aircraft in the US inventory and many foreign aircraft as well. I observed the object for about 7 seconds and it just was gone. You can imagine the expletives after the object was gone. The couple left before we woke the next morning.
August 12, 2020 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Jackson, MI
I woke up around 3:15 am. I had my door open to my balcony outside and saw a bright, stationary light that caught my eye. Looked like a porch light in the sky (north of my house). As soon as I started to really question what was I looking at it suddenly disappeared, it was like it turned off it's light . Just gone. I got up to check if it was cloudy out but I could see faint stars and about 10 minutes later a plane flew through where the light was. Not sure what I saw. A friend suggested I contact this site.
August 11, 2020 · 10:03 PM · FIREBALL
Lewiston, MI
On August 11th 2020, the Perseids were shooting over the sky. My family and I were staying on a lake with virtually no light pollution so every night we would go out and watch the meteors. On this night, at around 10pm, I was looking over the lake when I saw an orange (what can only be described as a fireball) shooting over the sky, but it went over slowly. It wasn't a meteor because of how slow it went over the lake. It took around 30 seconds to be out of eyesight. My brother, mother, and father all saw this ufo, and we have no idea what they are.
August 1, 2020 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Detroit, MI
Myself and two friends were enjoying a summer night on a friends roof top in Midtown Detroit. We were looking up into the night sky when above us at the height of planes fly over to land at the airport two giant orb like things appeared. I shouted to my two friends to look. We all couldn’t take our eyes away in amazement. Their shapes were identical and their light was perfect no hot spots or dimming in areas. They were moving in the same directions at a very fast speed to the west of the city. They would move as separate and then come together as one and then separate and coming me back together. They did this twice before shooting off to were we couldn’t see them anymore. We were all shocked nothing I’ve never seen anything move like that before in my life. Now I can’t stop looking up.
July 29, 2020 · 12:02 AM · RECTANGLE
Monroe, MI
Two rectangular shapes, one horizontal and the other vertical in the southern and south eastern sky. Brilliant, multiple white lights, each with splash of red and green lights at the bottom half of each. Objects were stationery.
July 25, 2020 · 11:45 AM · LIGHT
Dearborn, MI
Observed what appeared to be a satellite moving north to south just below big dipper then noticed it changed heading to a die west course and decreased elevation to the point that it was approx 20 thousand feet. Had a bright white strobing light that on every third flash was so bright was like it was taking a pic of ground and blinding. Craft disappeared on a westerly heading behind roof of house inhibiting view and then reappeared approx five mins later and assumed exact same heading it took on approach as it exited all the way back to extreme elevation along bottom of Big Dipper south to north then dissapearing.
July 20, 2020 · 10:45 PM · OTHER
Waterford, MI
I have pictures of this object and they have great quality. For weeks I looked at how the planets looked from earth and there is no similarities. It was about 11:15 and I was in the basement finishing up some homework when my dad screamed to come outside immediately as he was out letting our dog workout his last business before bed. I couldn’t believe what I was looking at. This object was being circled blatantly by planes which had blinking lights on them (red) it was saucer shaped emitting a crazy amount of light. After staring for an hour it vanished. I sent the picture to my old astrology teacher and even he could not believe what his eyes were looking at.
July 17, 2020 · 4:30 AM · CIRCLE
Westland, MI
First spotted one at 10:30 pm, circular,lights around,top lights big,looking like glowing eyes, with a longer strait ship following behind. It sat mid air,no sound for 25 min before slowly moving foward. It spun on it's axis occasionally. At 4 am I went out to smoke, seen 3 craft, put on shoes and walked 6 blocks to 711, counted over 30 at various points in sky. Some close,some way up,it was a clear night,also some smaller oval shaped craft, I could look right up and see, clarity in sky was perfect. Next day,bout 7 pm, I seen one behind some cloud cover. That evening,circular craft, but counted like 12 to 15. Last night seen about 5 ,but they were further off, only one closer to the point could be seen clearly. The 4am walk,I called pd, airport PD,news, border patrol,. I showed a Westland PD officer, he and several others said it was a plane,but it never moved and finally turned showing circular shape. No one knew what it was.
July 13, 2020 · 1:30 PM · SPHERE
Oxford, MI
Brought my grandmother home from lunch. She said "oh what a pretty blue sky" so I looked up. From The East we saw what looked like a silver sphere fly in a straight line towards us, it then ping pong from right to left four times and then came to a dead stop. As it hovered there motionless, I caught a glimpse of an airplane in the corner of my eye coming from Detroit. I looked at it and then looked back at the craft and said out loud I wonder if that plane can see it. As soon as those words left my lips the sphere took off in a straight line at very high speed and was gone in seconds. I'm not exactly sure of the size but it was definitely smaller than an airplane but bigger than a minivan. It was silver/gray in color and had a strange faint multicolored halo effect around it.
July 12, 2020 · 10:45 PM · OTHER
Madison Heights, MI
When looking up a white dot was heading north at extreme rate of speed. Lost sight because of cloud and unable to pick up again
July 12, 2020 · 8:34 PM · CIRCLE
West Bloomfiled, MI
Walked outside my door on to the deck to let the dog out, I looked up and saw a white circular object floating directly overhead. I called to my Dad to hurry and bring his phone to come see it, he brought his phone, I turned it on and took a video and picture as I estimated where it was and just snapped the pic. My father is in his 70s and has a hard time seeing and couldn't see it. I ran back in to get a camcorder and tripod. Went back out it was still there, and didn't move, it just floated directly overhead. I couldn't find the object on the screen of the video camera and aimed and recorded. As I tried to adjust to find the object in the camcorder screen it left. I did not see it leave, when I looked up again-it was gone. It was white and hardly noticeable, but there were no clouds around it-just blue sky behind it. This was at 8:34pm Est and the video I took shows no evidence off of the first glance, but I will investigate it further.
July 8, 2020 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Bridgman, MI
Was sitting outside smoking a cigarette as usual. I will state that at one or another time I have seen what i believe to be strange things but never anything that was too crazy. Well anyways me and my girlfriend were outside on my back deck (we live on the top floor of an apartment building) we see a light start to come across the sky. I only have a fair amount of area to see but its not a small amount though. It comes from our left the direction im facing is west. It blinks a white to possibly blue light a couple of times then it turns off its light and accelerates itself and i would say it actually switched directions but I could have percieved that wrong. But it accelerates itself multiple times like it would speed up then slow down for a second then speed back up. When it switched directions it came over top of us towards bridman headed east it was high up and pretty much invisible unless you could could see the outline of it in the clouds. My girlfriend saw the light i saw it when the light when out i could see an outline of it and i dont know for sure but it kind of had a cicular shape to it in the clouds but before i knew it passed over the building i ran outside but it was gone. At least i couldnt find it anymore.
July 6, 2020 · 6:00 AM · CIRCLE
Harper Woods, MI
I am a Police Officer for the city of Harper Woods. At approximately 6:00am, myself and a fellow officer were standing in a parking lot of a church talking before the end of our shift. I was looking towards the southwest at the moon when I glanced towards the southeast. I saw 3 objects in the southeast sky and pointed towards them. My co-worker noticed them at that point and attempted to take a picture with his cell phone. He was unable to see the objects with his phone camera, but I was with mine, and took a picture of two of the objects. The objects appeared to remain stationary for approximately 3 minutes, the appeared to drift towards the east, maintaining the equal distance. As we watched the objects, they appeared to "blink out" of our vision. *Note* the night/morning was cloudless.
July 5, 2020 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Temperance, MI
Bright metallic shaped orb in the southern sky. It hovered for 2-3 minutes and then began moving slowly to the west for 10 seconds and vanished.
July 5, 2020 · 5:40 PM · CIRCLE
Wales, MI
Laying in hammock in shade looking at sky when I noticed a round object, white in color, traveling in a straight line at an extremely high rate of speed heading South West. The object made no noise as it traveled, and left no visible trail.
July 1, 2020 · 2:30 AM · LIGHT
Oxford, MI
A bright light (about same brightness as other stars) was visible in the eastern sky. The light stood out because it appeared to have a red “tail”. We observed it for over an hour. Whatever it was seemed to make a gliding movement across the sky whenever it moved (kind of like how a submarine moves). The object moved across the sky in a west to northwest direction. It did not ever appear to move very fast.
June 29, 2020 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
St. Clair Shores, MI
I was laying on my swing on the porch, and suddenly I noticed 4 bright, Squarish lights spinning in a circle very slowly for about one turn. Suddenly it shot north towards New Baltimore area, and had a white trail left that I couldn't see reappear anywhere on the horizon. It showed up almonst around 90 degrees from where I was sitting, and the streak when it left probably went about 10 degrees before disappearing. Couldn't really tell a size on it, if I held my hand up, it was about the size of my pinky finger nail, which would put the distance between where helicopters fly and airplanes fly. There was only the one, and I didn't see what else it could be. I do live near Selfridge Airport, and by a Lake coast, so we do see lots of planes and helicopters. But this was like nothing I've seen before. I've never been opposed to thinking something else exists, but I also never went looking for answers until I saw that. It was not any light like a meteor, it was not like a shooting star, it wasn't like a satellite going by since it was way too big. I just couldn't tell what it was.
June 24, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Sault Ste. Marie, MI
I was on the roof working all day with my friend, sky’s were clear in the morning, afternoon rained pretty much up until sunset which was around 9:30 pm. Rained stopped there was a beautiful sunset so I decided to snap a couple photos off my iPhone. I did NOT see any ufo while I took not 1 but 2 Live Photo’s from my iPhone. After work when I got to my hotel Kewadin hotel and casino I had sent my friend I was with the photos of the sunset I had took on the roof. The next day he had looked at the photo and pointed out an object in the sky. I looked at the photo and I seen a ball of light in the distance. The second photo it appeared to be closer with some type of Ora around the glowing object. I didn’t think much of it at the time and let it be. I just arrived back to Chicago where I lived and went through my photos of that sunset I didn’t realize it until now that when I hold the pictures they have a live feed for a couple seconds and in both I see it move it! ways I can’t even Comprehend. I thought it was very interesting and can’t get it off my mind now and wanted to reassure myself by letting someone know.
June 11, 2020 · 12:12 PM · TRIANGLE
Ypsilanti, MI
I happened to look up at the sky to view a cloud on a very windy and cool day with blue sky and a few thin clouds and noticed what I originally assumed was a high-flying plane (30,000 to 40,000 feet). However, it had no contrail and it did not move. It stayed stationary for 5 minutes. And when I say stationary I mean it DID NOT MOVE for at least the 5 minutes I observed it. I heard no noise. It was very windy and it simply did not move. After 5 minutes of no noise and no movement it suddenly took off extremely fast and disappeared into the horizon within 5 seconds. This was seen over St. Joseph Mercy Hospital parking lot P near the administration building.
June 6, 2020 · 12:30 PM · LIGHT
Kimball, MI
My partner and i were on a walk with our dog looking for loud music in our neighborhood. On the walk home i thought this very bright close light was the north star. I look over and my partner was already pointing at the light he said "do you see that babe" the light then left away from us into space away from the earth and was gone in a matter of seconds. It was just gone away left this earth. It just disappeared into the darkness of space.
June 3, 2020 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Ft. Gratiot, MI
At approximately 10:00 on on June 3rd,2020... I walked out onto the deck of my 2nd story apartment looking south... I noticed a solid orange/yellow sphere hovering approximately 1,200-1,500 hundred feet and at a 30-35 degrees off the horizon... with the moon shining brightly, it was easy to see the objects west to south easterly movement...it made no sound that I could tell...no flashing lights...solid orange yellow sphere that was not stationary... I tried to record with my cellphone front facing camera but the video doesn't do the eye to object any justice
May 30, 2020 · 9:00 AM · CIRCLE
Lansing, MI
Came outside. Starting recording at 9:51pm. Saw a white circular object moving fast across the sky. Looked like it was going in a straight line. Did not see any blinking lights. Have eleven seconds video. Thinking it might be from the Launch today, but have no idea. Thank you