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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
September 15, 2016 · 9:30 PM
Wyoming, MI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 15, 2016 · 8:47 PM · LIGHT
Warren, MI
Looking up toward NW sky, saw a solid bright blue light, heading NW, there was also a plane with flashing lights heading towards it, the solid bright blue light started to diminish and eventually there was no light, moved pretty slow, lasted about 20 seconds, Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 15, 2016 · 5:15 PM · SPHERE
Gladwin, MI
Husband, neighbor and I watched a brightly lit sphere at the dusk line of the southwest skies of Gladwin sit still for several minutes before slowly descending toward the ground or horizon line. Not a star or plane.
September 14, 2016 · 10:37 PM · OTHER
Highland, MI
My son screamed mom get out here, in the southern sky seven twinkling lights were moving very fast in the sky! We watch for ten minutes unable to bealive what we were seeing. Then they just disappeared. Like stars on a switch. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 12, 2016 · 10:00 PM · DISK
South Haven, MI
A black disk 40 feet wide by 60 feet long with a tail, with three sets of bright white lights. Front lights would light then switch to two sets of lights. This was flying towards us just above tree top level. It flew over from us 100 feet away behind trees even with us. The object didn't make any noise.
September 12, 2016 · 10:00 PM · DISK
South Haven, MI
White light dropped down from the north the white light accelerated into a streak of light covering a few miles a second until it went to the tree line and went into a 180 in a second and continued to hover the tree line towards us. A black disk 40 feet wide by 60 feet long with a tail, with three sets of bright white lights. Front lights would light then switch to two sets of lights. This was flying towards us just above tree top level. It flew over from us 100 feet away behind trees even with us. The object didn't make any noise. Added more detail from the original report.
September 5, 2016 · 7:55 PM · LIGHT
Rose City, MI
Two blueish white lights seen in the day light, traveling fast, high, and silent, north east, in parallel formation. Both objects appeared to be identical, besides the one on the right, was larger than the one on the left. The speed they were traveling seemed faster than what any aircraft is capable of, but slower than a shooting star. A small tail behind was noticed, but no trail or remnants of any exhaust or vapors were visible. This sighting was witnessed by myself and my girlfriend approximately a few minutes before eight PM, well before sunset. Not sure if this could have been some type of rocket or flare, however, I have never seen anything like it.
September 5, 2016 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Muskegon, MI
saw two brilliant orange lights that seemed to be moving together , then noticed a third light that made the triangle. I had earlier thought what a great night to see stars , not a cloud in the sky , but realized no stars within the lights . it moved slowly to the east and as it moved stars would show up , I couldn't see an object but something was between those lights! Gone in less than a minute. Can't begin to think how big this must have been. wish my brain would stop thinking about it and let me sleep.
September 3, 2016 · 8:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Roseville, MI
First one appeared slowly as a moving triangle. Traveling south to north. Appeared to be moving upward and the lights were a constant glow. Then suddenly disappeared. The second one took the same path. No sound whatsoever. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 3, 2016 · 3:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Manistique, MI
Sighted above Indian Lake State Park by myself and two other people who were there to watch the aurora borealis. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
September 3, 2016 · 12:00 AM · DISK
Royal Oak, MI
9/3/16 1am. 11 mile and main area in Royal Oak MI. Craft coming at me (north) with white lights but stopped and went east and hoovered. Looked like a fat disc shape. 3 lights. One light was red. I think other 2 were green and white. Than went backwards (south) and hoovered. Than really fast to the right (west) and hoovered and than to the east again and hoovered and than to the west again really fast and I could hear a really shrill noise when it went fast to the west. It did a few of these left and right and back and forth moves and hoovered each time. I got my camera. Took pic off the porch but I had my finger on the flash which is a poor feature of this camera but maybe that's a good thing. Went to take second pic and it went behind trees and disappeared but I watched it for over 5 minutes. The picture just looks like a blur of gas since it was in motion. I would say it was the size of a jet and at jet altitude.
September 3, 2016 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Lake Orion, MI
I'm laying in bed and I glance out my window to see what I thought was a star. As I look longer, however, I notice the "star" is flashing green and red. It hasn't moved in the past 20 minutes, as I've been watching it, and is just as bright as when I first noticed it. It is circular in shape, mimicking a star, but I've never seen a star that twinkles with alternating colors of red and green. Very strange. Possible "twinkling" star?? PD
September 2, 2016 · 11:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Harbor Springs, MI
Grouped multicolor lights, kind of in the shape oh a Hershey kiss, zipping in random directions, in the northwestern sky. It doesn't seem to be going in any set direction. My father saw it when he went to see if we could see the northern lights tonight. We watched it for at least a half an hour. It stayed in the same general area. Very rapid movement. Stars?? PD
September 1, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Dollar Bay, MI
Drove towards the bright white/green lights. They seemed to be jumping around. They were brighter in some spots and dimmer in others. We tried to take pictures but it would NOT show up on camera or video. We thought it was the northern lights but they are not like any we have seen before. It was almost like a portal looking thing!! Like, if you went out into the woods it would get brighter and find the cause. We didnt. The entire county has been notified and I am sure that more than 5 people have seen it!
September 1, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
South Marquette County, MI
On a clear cloudless evening noticed a perfect triangle formation to the south south east just above the horizon. We did not notice this just minutes before. Formation was made of 3 white or yellow lights which appeared to be bright stars. After only noticing this for about a minute, the formation quickly vanished without apparent movement. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 30, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Zeeland, MI
Thought it was a medium size star. Stationary as my eye first caught it. Thought it was the only star out. Same brightness as a star. The sky was overcast, cloudy. Then it moved to my right about 4 times faster than a plane, then on an angle down to my left. Then squiggled all around then up then straight down. No sound, no flashing lights, left no trail. Thought maybe a shooting star but they don't go down then up. I was coming out my front door to walk the dog. It was just about dark out. I was facing south west when I spotted it looking toward Holland
August 27, 2016 · 10:45 PM · FORMATION
Detroit, MI
They came over some trees'moving with the cliuds'it was about 10 of them'my daughter seen more of them. They were bright orange 'and all moving in a single line. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 23, 2016 · 10:20 PM · FIREBALL
Holland, MI
8/23/2016 10:20 pm Holland, MI. I would like to report 2 rather bright orange "balls" that I just saw travelling in a straight line SSE to NNW direction. I observed these objects from the deck and driveway of my home in Holland, MI. The objects had no strobes, and were much brighter and quicker than e.g. Chinese lanterns. (Note that it is quite still out ... not even a breeze.) Each object traversed at a steady pace across the sky in approximately 10 seconds. No sounds. The first one disappeared to the NNW into light cloud cover. That may help you understand the altitude. About 15 seconds after the first disappeared from sight, a second followed the same track from SSE to NNW ... same apparent speed and altitude. The second seemed more red than orange on the travelling "front" edge of the ball. Hard to say the true size, since an actual distance couldn't really be determined. From my view, they both appeared to be about the size of a pea in the night sky (fairly clear out this! evening, with a nice view of the stars). I wouldn't exactly call them "fireballs," but they did have something of that look to them color/texture wise.
August 22, 2016 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Ann Arbor, MI
While biking home tonight I came to the intersection of Hill Street and South Division St., I stopped to check my phone for messages, when I looked up and noticed two red glowing lights in the sky off towards the southeastern horizon. At first I thought they were planes, but I quickly realized that they were an unusual solid red color, unlike a plane with blinking lights. I observed the two red lights as they slowly moved further towards the southeast until they vanished, one after the other, into the clouds. I could not tell at what elevation they were flying, only that they seemed to be generally at the same elevation as the planes flying nearby. They moved markedly slower than all of the obvious planes flying nearby, and the lights kept the exact same distance from one another throughout my observation. I took a photo using my cellphone camera which shows the two lights clearly, however it does not show the red color I observed with my eyes and there is little detail to the lights. Notably, the airplanes that were also in the sky in the view of my camera did not show up on my camera, as I assume they were not bright enough to be captured. Please let me know if you would like this photo.
August 22, 2016 · 8:27 PM · LIGHT
Ann Arbor, MI
I was out for a run and not iced a very bright light in the sky near sundown. There were 2 airplanes in my frame of view and they were noticeably dimmer and had condensation trails, where the object I am describing was stationary and pulsed its light off then on with a frequency of about 3-4 minutes and an off time of roughly a minute. I watched the light strobe 3 times and then it turned off for at least 5 minutes before I went indoors. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 19, 2016 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Warren, MI
2 flashing bright white lights. 1 not moving still for over an hour, the other circling the same track for about 25 minutes. Looks to be about 2-5 miles away from visual. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 17, 2016 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Big Rapids, MI
In 2016 I was attending a local university and Big Rapids Michigan and was at the Ferris State University library when I witnessed what appeared to be a large so circular shaped orb. There was a full moon out that night and the object slowly ascended to the point where it was blocking out the Moon from my visibility. I recall that night another student was by me and I asked him, hey do you see that strange object in the sky? The other student said yeah I see it. So I was like comment it's not just me that seeing this thing. The object appeared to reflect the moonlight and was silver colored like aluminum. My first guess was that this object was a large weather balloon, however this object suddenly change course of direction as if it was guided by someone controlling it. It was a calm night and there was no breeze out and there was no sign of any propellant coming from the object or any motor. The object then suddenly ascended to speeds which would be comparable to a fighter jet to my recollection and then took off. The object was definitely higher than what I believe to be 500 ft and was very large.
August 16, 2016 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Gaylord, MI
i was driving my bike over the I-75 exit ramp, heading south, and to the left of old 27, i seen what i thought was fire works. So i pulled over to look at them and it looked like around 20 or 30 fire balls still in the sky in a line type formation for about one min from when i seen them. then they disappeared all at once.
August 16, 2016 · 10:15 AM
Gaylord, MI
My gf could tell it shook me up a lil then I saw it again....looked like ferris wheel shape from a distance. We attempted to contact the witness via telephone, to confirm the time, but his mailbox is not set up. He provides no e-address. PD