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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
November 9, 2016 · 12:30 AM · FORMATION
Romulus, MI
I live by the airport so I'm used to seeing planes and lights. But what I saw was a huge slow moving craft moving up an down. Then pausing and staying completly still. I felt like I can't look away. Then I notice 2 small lights moving towards the stationary craft. The move towards it and form a triangle. They moved up down, then streaked off. It was weird.
November 5, 2016 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Stevensville, MI
We were letting dogs out to go to bed. Noticed one then they started showing up everywhere. Flying fast from west to east. They flew faster than anything my wife or I know of, they seemed to have several different colored lights. More than a normal airplane. They were able to stop in position then move on quickly. Seemed like all the sudden they all disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 4, 2016 · 5:15 AM · FORMATION
Lansing, MI
Two sets of aircraft each with a bigger brighter leader craft. Came from opposite directions. Stopped and hovered and zig zagged.
October 29, 2016 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Lansing, MI
One continued east, while the other hovered right above US 127 S. as we drove over the Clark Rd. overpass. Drove pursuing the other end that headed East, we turned south on Chandler Rd., and again saw it hovering. Again, as we aproached, it took off. This time headed West. These were not drones. They were large and low. Flashed similar to what a plane would, with the exception of one very bright, yellow colored light that turned on and off intermittently. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 23, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Lansing, MI
Sitting outside last night and looked in the sky and seen 3 objects that looked like upside down V's. They had a reddish orange glow and flew in formation with one leading. After a few seconds of trying to figure out what they were they disappeared. Just like that they were gone then another set appeared. These ones flew slowly across the sky then started blinking. I'm not sure what I saw but I do know I have never seen anything like it before.
October 22, 2016 · 12:46 PM · UNKNOWN
Grand Rapids, MI
At my residence, I noticed an orang-ish -- what appeared to be triangle shaped, but couldn't tell for certain because of how high it was -- ball of light track at very high altitude, it was above an airliner (looking up the flight history, I believe it was ETD150, 777 from Chicago to Abu Dhabi). This organg-ish ball was tracking north to south at a moderate clip -- there was no con-trail observed. When I went to grab a witness the anomalous object was overhead, still tracking north to south. Several minutes later, with the witness in hand, we observed that the object was now way off to the east and was tracking to the southwest. It made quite a course correction in a short amount of time! Eventually the object got too far out of range for us to see. Neither the witness, nor myself have seen anything like it before. It could not have been a satellite because of the course change -- maybe it was a weather balloon.
October 21, 2016 · 11:22 PM · CHEVRON
Sterling Heights, MI
I was driving home from work on Friday, October 21, at 11:21 PM. I turned down the side-street to get to our driveway and saw a chevron/boat-shaped craft descending at an approximate 30 degree angle to below the nearby treeline. The craft was fairly small and had a stainless steel-like appearance. I could detect any sound and it could not have been more than 200 yards away, as the treeline is only a few streets over from us. I did not see any more of the craft once it was below the treeline.. Correct time is 2322 hrs.. The report was first posted with an incorrect time of 11:22 a.m., but we have changed that time, and have reposted. PD
October 21, 2016 · 7:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Ypsilanti, MI
At first I ignored her, shrugging it off believing it was an airplane. But as I tried to stare at it while driving, I noticed it was getting lower and it didn't resemble an airplane. The flying object was shaped like an triangle with 3 bright lights that formed to a triangle. My daughter grabbed her phone and snapped a picture. As her flasher went off, the triangle object quickly shifted towards our car, flying low, then disappeared.
October 20, 2016 · 9:56 PM · FIREBALL
Lake Orion, MI
There appears to be a blue fireball streaking across the sky in Lake Orion, MI. After me and a friend observed it for a minute or two, it started shining blue and red, with a series of red dots following behind it. The original started to move faster as the series of 3 red dots in a large curve traced behind it.
October 20, 2016 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Pinckney, MI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 19, 2016 · 6:16 AM · TRIANGLE
Ortonville, MI
Three white lights in triangle formation. Started in the west and flew over me heading east. Back two lights blinked. No other colors besides white. Craft blacked out stars but seemed very low. Did make a noise but much more quiet than a plane. Moved slow.
October 15, 2016 · 12:00 PM · SPHERE
Detroit, MI
No time for the sighting is indicated by the source, who elects to remain totally anonymous, and who provides no contact information. We have assigned an arbitrary time. Hoax?? PD
October 10, 2016 · 3:35 PM · SPHERE
Vicksburg, MI
So, I called my fiance back and after being on the phone 2 minutes one object began travelling north and I watched it travel about the speed of a plane at probably 400 feet in the air completely silent it was a perfect black metallic orb/spherical shape. Nothing after that and I had to go inside the building at that time.
October 9, 2016 · 4:30 PM · SPHERE
Madison Heights, MI
I believe this picture is a orb with a funnel above it. I was taking a picture of airplanes when I caught this picture of a pink circle with 3 dots inside of it and a funnel above object. This picture was taken inside my vechicle with my window rolled down.
October 8, 2016 · 8:35 PM · CHEVRON
Warren, MI
Large wing craft, V shaped with the point as the front of the craft. Very dim lights on the leading edge of the wing. The body was dark grey to black in color. The craft was around 2 to 3 wing spans of a 747. Made no sound as it flew from north to south over Warren headed to Detroit. No visible engine exhaust as it flew by. Did not turn or slow down was traveling at approximately 200 to 300 mph. Was not a jet aircraft, had no beacons or landing lights.
October 4, 2016 · 10:16 PM · FIREBALL
Hanover, MI
A black Apache helicopter or possibly something else similar in shape was chasing an orange ball of light heading NNW at about 300 feet and traveling at a speed of roughly 110-120 mph. This happened at 10:16 pm 10/04/16 on the north side of round lake (the bright blue one), Jackson County, Michigan , Hanover-Horton round lake area 49246.
October 1, 2016 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Grand Blanc, MI
We were walking south when we saw a set of three orange lights travel east to west in the south skies high over the treetops. After about 20-30 seconds, they seemed to fade away. This happened twice more, one with a set of four lights and another with three lights. They appeared to fly in a triangular formation, each time fading away as they reached appogee.
September 28, 2016 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
Grand Rapids, MI
Was driving north on a road running parallel to the Grand River and noticed a metallic looking sphere in the sky. Seemed to reflect light from all around, only there were dark clouds and only partly sunny. The sun was more to the west, but it still seemed to reflect light from the east, or possibly emitting it it’s self. It did not move, and was also windy so I ruled out a balloon. I was about to pull over to the side and get my phone out to try and get some video or picture, but when I drove under some trees and came back out into an open area (lost sight of it for about 1–2 seconds) it was gone. There was nothing in the sky for as far as I could see.
September 24, 2016 · 11:30 PM · FORMATION
Stering Heights, MI
We were having a bonfire in the city of Sterling Heights. I happened to look up. I saw 5 yellow lights flying in perfect formation. Sort of a half diamond. It flew straight and true, made no noise at all, then disappeared instantly.
September 24, 2016 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Fenton, MI
Two triangle shapes making no sound flew overhead with just the light from the moon reflecting off them. They traveled at a rate of speed that took only 5 or 6 seconds to go from horizon to horizon. They were following each other closely. My background I'm just a normal guy who likes to watch the night sky. I have seen the space station with the shuttle in the sky before but this was something very different.
September 23, 2016 · 8:19 PM · LIGHT
Lansing, MI
Went out from indoor soccer arena. All my teammates were already gone. I headed out to the parking lot and saw exactly 30 bright yellow lights on the sky. The light was very strong, lots of light on these things. They were flying as if they were floating. They were floating in a pack, passing each other, going up and down. I had a flip flip phone, so I couldn't take a picture.
September 20, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Assumption, MI
My family and I were coming from Hillsdale, Michigan, heading to Toledo, Ohio. We were somewhere before Assumption. At first we thought these two objects were stars.These object stayed in the same position in the sky much of the time untill we saw one of them dissappear. We thought maybe they were far away helicopters. The second one came back into view. They traded places by moving in a counter clockwise circle. They got brighter and dimmer. When they were bright they looked almost like a lantern or a flare. They had no blinking lights. After the second one disappeared the other one became very bright like it caught on fire and stayed in the same position. We were driving 65 mph approximately, but we never seemed to be driving away from them, that was why at first we thought they were stars. The one that disappeared from view the first time became visible again. At first it was dim and then it was very bright like the other one. It then disappeared from view again. My husband, my daughter and I all were trying to continually view them through the forest. When we came to a place where the closer trees were cleared we could see in the distance a great lit up area that was emitting light from the ground like a stadium would but brighter. This area came from a huge area of forest. The light was so white it looked blueish, almost like a florescent light. As we got close to Toledo we stopped at a road construction stop light close to town, and we could tell that the object was moving slowly to the side, from the position it was over the tree tops. It did not get less bright as it moved, like it was moving farther away, it also did not get brighter. It moved very slow. I wanted to get a closer look, he did not. We began to quarrel over going to get a closer look or not. He drove into the outskirts of Toledo and during the time of the argument I lost sight of the object. When I looked back all I could find was what I thought was a star.
September 18, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Grand Rapids, MI
Sunday night, 10pm, saw a white light streak across the sky from west to south/east was a bit brighter than the moon which was just coming up as a large creamy dark color, light made no noise and no debree behind it also within 5 minutes I and my wife also saw a helicopter lift up off the ground in the east sky and it hovered in the sky for a few minutes before it turned and went due east.
September 16, 2016 · 9:00 PM
Grayling, MI
We were in our house when 3 bright orange flashes lit up the sky. Too fast to go out to see any objects.