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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
October 5, 2019 · 8:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Portage, MI
Outside standing on porch from east to west a dark greyish/black rectangle craft was flying at a small airplane speed past westnedge Avenue at about 500-600feet off the ground. It did not make any noise. After watching watching it fly by for about 15-20 seconds it took off with very fast acceleration keeping the same height until i couldnt see it anymore in the distant clouds. It was very erie and seemed like a different power i didnt know man had the way it moved and also what is rectangle? U.S. government needs to get better at flying their military vehicles if they want to keep them a secret. Thisnis no lie,,, actually kinda freaked me out for a minute.
October 4, 2019 · 9:40 AM · CIGAR
Holly, MI
This evening I saw a one large cigar-shaped bright, silver in color and moving quickly in a linear pattern across the sky and then it disappeared.
September 28, 2019 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Napoleon, MI
Multiple low flying objects, seemingly in a straight path across the sky. Red and white flashing lights. These objects would appear from the treeline and cross the whole sky, silently, and disappear until the next one comes across the sky. My dad has said hes been seeing these for months, tonight was the first time I took the time to see for myself. Indeed what he says he sees, I saw too. Too low to be planes, no noise followed. Lights flicker, seems to be white on either side and red in the middle. I got video, but cell phone quality isn't that great.
September 22, 2019 · 8:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Brownstown Township, MI
UFO Sighting: Black Triangle UFO with three white lights on bottom… Brownstown Township, MI Sunday, September 22nd between the time of 8:45 pm and 9:00pm I was sitting in my hot tub on the back patio after a long day of work. It was a perfectly clear night and the stars were brilliant. There was plenty of airplane traffic flying out of Detroit Metro Airport; a typical night, as I watched out to my west and south vantage point. You could see planes and their lights a good 30 miles out or so; it was super clear. I was in the hot tub with my wife and daughter. They went inside for a brief moment. I leaned my head back and stared directly above to watch all of the stars when a black, triangle-shaped flying object with a small round white light in each of the three corners of the object flew directly over head from north to south/south-east heading at an indeterminable altitude. It was visible to me for only 15-20 seconds total. It watched it fly over-head, staring directly at it. It left no contrail or vapor trails, and would have been difficult to see otherwise, if you weren’t looking directly at it. Its mass blotted out the stars in the sky, which also helped me make out its exact shape. I watched it fly slowly overhead, no noise, at a speed that was less than an aircraft that size would need to stay aloft. It was flying at an altitude higher than the other planes that night climbing in altitude coming out of Metro Airport. It had almost a shimmery maybe cloaking affect to ! itself, yet was flat black in appearance and clearly visible. It was a distinct triangle in form, but each of the rear corners were not pointy like a typical triangle shape would be; each corner appeared to have 45 degree angle cuts on each of its corners. It was unlike any aircraft I have ever seen. It was not a toy-drone flying at that height, at that time of the day, or in the Metro Airport flight route airspace. I watched it until it disappeared behind the roof line of my house. My wife and daughter came out moments later after seeing it. I told them and they thought I was crazy. I saw what I saw…and it wasn’t your typical overhead flying planes like I see all of the time. This was different. Oh, and I wasn’t drinking that night either…lol I thought I would write down the memory of the observation to keep the experience fresh in my head.
September 19, 2019 · 9:22 PM · UNKNOWN
Livonia, MI
So we had a strange night last night. First, we saw something that I initially thought was a satellite, but it seemed much closer/bigger than a satellite should be and was definitely much brighter. My husband said it was shaped like a crescent. It seemed to move pretty quickly from south to north, then curved east and faded a few minutes later. Unfortunately, my phone was acting up all night and I wasn’t able to capture it. It was very bright, like I said, but I couldn’t tell if it was just a reflection from the sun, or if it was lit up on its own. There were no flashing, or blinking lights on it and there was no sound. About 15-20 minutes later, I noticed something else. Three to six consecutive points of light moving from north to south, but unlike an airplane, they had bursts of strobing lights (as opposed to blinking steadily) and as they moved, seemed to bounce all over the place rather than following a linear progression. I did manage to record some of it. And, oddly enough, about 10-15 minutes after that, I caught a brief glimpse of a “fireball” in the east over our house. Probably a comet, or meteor, but I cannot be sure because it only lasted a split second. I watched the planes fly overhead the rest of the night just to be sure that wasn’t what I saw. None of them came anywhere close to what I’d seen earlier. The other strange thing about this was that those things moved very quickly from north to south. If they were planes, there was no way they could have moved that fast without it being obvious that they were planes. These were tiny points of light that jumped around forwards and back, up and down, seeming to appear and disappear at different points in the sky. I’ve been checking the internet all day, but I haven’t found any similar reports in our area yet. I honestly don’t know what this was. I’ve never seen anything like it before. It definitely wasn’t fireworks either because they didn’t make any sound and I’ve never seen fireworks move like that. I thought maybe they could be drones, or something, but last I checked, drones don’t just pop in and out of sight. There were no discernible shapes, or distinct "objects" that I could make out. Just the lights and it almost seemed like they were responding to each other, but I could be totally wrong about that.
September 19, 2019 · 8:25 PM · FLASH
Oxford, MI
We have amended the time above, in order to reflect a nighttime event. PD
September 18, 2019 · 4:30 AM · CIRCLE
Van Buren Township, MI
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.
September 7, 2019 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Washington Township, MI
I've lived in this house for 12 years and my family and I have often noticed three lights floating in the sky above the lake we live on. We always thought they were a little strange because they don't move like planes and the lights aren't like planes either. They're a gold color and seemed to bob up and down before moving around some more and then disappearing.
September 7, 2019 · 6:00 PM · CIGAR
Hudsonville, MI
While taking a walk with my wife, we saw a slow moving large Cigar shaped craft moving west. It stopped and turned north into a cloud. It looked like a blimp but there were no lights, and I have never seen a blimp turn on a dime the way this did.
September 7, 2019 · 5:45 AM · CIRCLE
Grand Rapids, MI
I was walking my dog this morning (heading northbound on Fairview Avenue). We stopped in front of Lookout Park in order for my dog to((walk)) when I happened to look up into the sky and notice a bright red circle come into view from the west, heading east. It was approximately pea-sized at arms length and was traveling slowly. And as it neared the midway point of my view, a bright flash of white light occurred just above it. (Strangely, the flash of light was slow as well. It wasn't like turning on and off a light and took a good two seconds to finish.) After the flash of light, the red circular object proceeded on its way to the east and disappeared out of view.
September 1, 2019 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Bloomingdale, MI
Perhaps not a craft, but definitely unidentified. If anyone has an explanation please post. Unfortunately I have no pictures or video it just didn't occur to me, if anyone does I'd love to re-experience this as I've never seen anything like it. Lights were blazing across the sky for hours, it was was a bit cloudy and at first glance you might assume these light were a laser sky show, someone having fun but I've never seen anything like it. Most lasers, when pointed to the sky from the ground don't just appear in the sky, you can trace the laser to the ground. But there was no hint of a source and this "projection" went quite literally horizon to horizon...quite a feat. As if it were projected from above the clouds. Now as for the lights themselves...several patterns were displayed. The most striking was a double helix that again went horizon to horizon in one direction and the width maybe 15 to 20% of the sky. After awhile the pattern changed to something that made me think of a visual representation of the doppler effect. Two waves crashing over each other encompassing almost the entire sky! And another a seemingly random cacophony of swirls chasing themselves around the sky. Full disclosure, there WERE supposed to be northern lights this weekend, which is why we mostly dismissed it as a group. And if it were only the last described chaotic sequence, i would leave it at that. The lights weren't all that bright, relatively speaking, standing next to a very small campfire and you can't see them. However, there is NO WAY this was northern lights, it was way too structured. and as far as I can tell, through hours of Google, there is no skylight or machine that can effectively do this. Especially legally, and this went on for hours in the middle of nowhere 30 miles from any city lights or venues. Of course, depending on how high these projections or perceived sources were, the area that this may have been visible could potentially be huge. Also, and perhaps unrelated, the clouds further up and to the south had consistent flares of purple light or lightning. Very dense, and completely silent. There was no pattern to the effect. I believe it was a rare lightning of some sort. But maybe I'm wrong? So alot of things that skeptics can use to dismiss this I guess. But there was definitely something wierd going on. Everyone was amazed, a few of us who understand how things work are perplexed by what we saw... Anyone? Ps zero drugs or alcohol were consumed that night. At least by myself.
August 25, 2019 · 11:45 PM · DISK
Lake Ann, MI
My brother, visiting from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, was taking our Golden Retrievers out for them to go the bathroom. He quickly ran in and said that there was something in the air. I looked and saw what looked like a drone shaped object. It wasn't an airplane or a helicopter because there was no noise. It hovered back and forth, from the right to the left for about 5 seconds when I got out there. The lights were red and white and were on and off from red to white. Then it all of a sudden disappeared.
August 24, 2019 · 10:10 AM · OTHER
Grand Rapids, MI
Massive square shaped object views from stationary car on 28th street westbound near Beltline. Perfect square shape, blue black an silver with square indentations throughout Descended slowly at a 45 degree angle and disappeared below tree line. Witness provides no contact information. PD
August 19, 2019 · 5:00 AM · EGG
Ann Arbor (E of; on S HWY 23), MI
As I drove south on Hwy 23 in Michigan I looked to the Left (East) at what I thought was the constellation Orion. Then this Bright glowing green egg just seamed to raise for the ground and moved from the south to the north, it made a dip and a rise and arched Downward again leaving some kind of a trail behind it. At the bottom of the second dip, it rolled over to the right and shot off at a approx 100-110 degree angle disappearing in a flash. this was no more than 200 yards from me.
August 16, 2019 · 10:22 PM · UNKNOWN
Gulfport, MI
We have corrected the date. PD
August 15, 2019 · 1:28 AM · TEARDROP
Saint Clair Shores (Canada), MI
I was walking north on a street in Saint Clair Shores and stopped on the sidewalk for a reason I will not identify. I was looking up at some trees. Suddenly, an orb of white color or circle dropped nearly straight down. I would estimate at about 250-260 degrees. The object then went unnoticed or disappeared. It would have still been in my site but went dark. There were 2 clouds above where it dropped from in my vision. They went dark on an angle of me looking at the top of a telephone pole about 30 yards ahead of me. I can not estimate the altitude before the drop. This is my 3rd sighting (just in this area) and I've lived in the area for a short time (exact time not to be given). Selfridge Air Force Base is about a ten minute drive from here and is North as well. I have reported sightings in the past. I think since I'm nocturnal (and outside at night) I run into these more often than most people. This object did not drop at the speed I've seen others drop in my opinion. Fast but not as fast. Either that, or I'm speeding up. That's about it. I saw one over Lake St. Clair a few months back dropping in a similar manner. I didn't report that one.
August 14, 2019 · 1:14 AM · UNKNOWN
Kalamazoo, MI
I just got home from my job at McDonalds around 11:00pm, a few hours of me playing video games my mom called me outside to the front porch and asked me if I see those lights, I tell her yeah. My mom proceeds to ask me what do you think they are? I say honestly there's no big buildings around so they're not lights for planes to see, no one owns any lights strong enough to shoot into the sky, at least not without a beam of light shooting from the ground. I then said and there's no new things opening, so they aren't ad lights, I then said well I can't see the shape because its ehind the clounds but i could see the lights. I think it was a spinning stiangle. I say this because there were 3 cirles next to each other like this ooo then there was one underneath that, and it was spinning as well so like this. o This thing had to be at least 200ft wide because the rotation of the lights went from up 2 streets down in front of my house to all the way up my street, the lights stayed there for some time until i got tired and went back inside. I tried to record it but my phone didn't pick up the faint light because of the clouds. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 9, 2019 · 9:10 PM · CIGAR
Macomb, MI
On the evening of August 9, 2019, I observed a cigaresque craft travel very slowly at an extremely high altitude passing across my view of the moon. This was at approximately 9:10 p.m. The craft disappeared into the clouds after roughly 6 seconds and only a few seconds later, a commercial airliner was traveling a perpendicular path to the cigar craft at a lower altitude at regular-plane speed.
August 7, 2019 · 10:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Lake Orion, MI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 6, 2019 · 2:30 PM · CIGAR
Howell, MI
On August 6th, 2019, at approximately 2:30pm, my daughter and I saw a long, completely white tube-shaped craft flying horizontally in the sky. After a few moments of noticing the craft, it seemed to refract light and become nearly invisible for a few seconds. It came back for approximately 10 additional seconds before flying into a cloud and disappearing. We were no longer able to see or locate the object again after continuing to search visually for 10 minutes. I am a mom of 4 children, own a business and am well-educated. My daughter recently turned 18 and graduated high school. Neither of us have ever seen anything like that before.
August 1, 2019 · 10:40 PM · OVAL
Dexter, MI
I saw a bright and pulsing amber light above my garage. It caught my attention because it was too big to be a plane, and was brighter than summer Jupiter. I watched it pulse for a while when I noticed two smaller blinking red lights. It stayed hovering over my garage for a few minutes, then suddenly took off over my house and into the distance. When it flew over my house, it made a sound similar to a low-flying plane, but it was very much not a plane.
August 1, 2019 · 1:00 PM · CIRCLE
South Haven, MI
My wife and I was going home from South Haven. I looked to my right and saw a circle shaped shadow in a field near. There was no clouds or anything to make such a pattern . I looked around and seen that the field was bare and no structures or trees was within 300 yards from the sight . I looked and it appeared to be nothing but a open field with nothing near the location. I was lost in thought and returned today at 10:00 am and walked over the sight before trying to report it. There was just a outline of one craft that appeared to be invisible but not able to block the sunlight and appears to show its form on the ground . There was no aircraft in the vicinity. Later a military helicopter was in the vicinity as well as a convoy of military trucks . the helicopter flew low and was very loud.
July 30, 2019 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Shelby, MI
We were enjoying the meteor shower on the beach of Lake Michigan off the private community of Cobmoosa Shores in Shelbym Michigan. We witnessed several shooting stars and satellites. It was myself, my partner, our 12 year old son and his friend. This bright circle sphere oval was very large and coming from the north. It travelled past us and we continued to watch it and suddenly it disappeared. While we were observing the only person who had a phone was my son and I asked him to take a video but he didn’t LISTEN and just took a picture. As clear as the sky was though the only thing that pleated was this unifentified flying object, not even a single star of the millions we seen showed up with it. We continued to watch after this observation to see if satellites disappeared or we could see across the whole sky we could. We watched airplanes to see the same. On our way home near Kokomo, Indiana, strange things were happening on our car map which made me look into things and figured I should report this.
July 22, 2019 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Royal Oak, MI
Driving south when my passenger and I both witnessed a white/yellow ball of light travel south across the sky and disappear behind clouds. Didn’t leave a tail or streak but was very, very bright. It almost looked like a large star. The sun hadn’t set yet and it was still very bright in the area. No sound or shape of a jet or human made aircraft.