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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
July 4, 2016 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Holland, MI
I captured a small portion a video.
July 4, 2016 · 10:25 PM · UNKNOWN
Detour Village, MI
This sighting was during the fireworks for Detour Village and Drummond Island. Lights were over Lake Huron almost to the Detour Passage. If I had to guess the craft/lights were at about five thousand foot. When there was movement the lights would change from one green one red and gone clear/white to all green or all red and being multiple of the same color. Seemed it was investigating the fireworks. No noise was heard either. Witness, who elects to remain totally anonymous, provides no information. PD
July 4, 2016 · 10:20 PM · DISK
Rochester Hills, MI
Object had 4 lights - 3 red and one green. Green light blinked constantly. At some time all started to blink and turned of except one red, then all turned back again. I t was moving very fast (much faster then plain or helicopter) and between movements it froze in the sky at the spot. Moved to different directions left and right, forward and backward. Was able to watch in binoculars. It had 4 legs under saucer shape. There was no sound from object but it was firework all around in this area. But anyway we could here sound from flying planes at that time. Probably wouldn't pay attention if it want fly so fast - never seen before any object with this speed and lights were interesting.
July 4, 2016 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Sterling, MI
A second satellite came into our view starting off large and bright and then dimming. I saw the same thing a few years back in the same location. Do photo satellites have a flash? I didn't think so but that was the only theory that we all hit on with the exception of UFO. Possible Iridium satellite? PD
July 3, 2016 · 10:10 PM · TRIANGLE
Michigan (Central Upper), MI
At sunset I was sitting on my deck and saw a bright yellow light.I thought it was the sun shining through a hole in the cloud. Then the light was red and then I thought it was an airplane in the distance. I watched it but it didn't seem to move. As I was watching another yellow light showed up to the right and another directly centered on top of the other two to make the shape of a triangle. I watched trying to figure out what it was. Then the top light shot away, the bottom right light shot away and then the first light which was yellow again disappeared. It happened fast it was gone. I eliminated fireworks, sunset shining through the cloud, and an airplane as possibilities. I
June 29, 2016 · 11:55 PM · RECTANGLE
Fenton, MI
Multicolor lights on one craft coming from the west - mostly white with red, blue, and green hugh glowing big and bright from at least 10 miles away with some lights flashing. As it got closer approximately 3 miles away over Fenton Michigan it turn 90 degrees to the north and headed towards the Flint Area. At one point the main lights went dim and through the binoculars the craft was dimly outlined in hundreds of very small white lights, (a few flashing white from right to left - but no red or green - just white). The craft was rectangular shaped - long and skinny - about the length of a maybe two large passenger jets. The whole affair lasted till 12:05 am - 10 minutes.
June 28, 2016 · 10:25 PM · LIGHT
Grand Rapids, MI
Completely clear night sky, Red flashing light seen in the east. object caught my attention because of the extremely high speed movement. object rapidly approached my position, stopped 'on a dime' so to speak, and headed north at at the same extraordinary speed. Object stopped again, headed southeast, stopped again, headed west, stopped, and then south out of my view. when object was stopped, it remained in place for around 30 seconds. although the object was red and very bright in the sky, my iPhone 6 was unable to photograph or record video of the incident. no sound was noticed. difficult to estimate the distance from my position.
June 27, 2016 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Swartz Creek, MI
The other witness and I were driving down the expressway, when I looked up and saw the object. At first glance, it looked like an airplane. So I asked the witness, "That's not a plane is it?" And they proceeded to say that it was just a low flying plane. As we got a little closer, we noticed that the craft was not moving at all, so there was no way that it could be a plane at all. It was a triangular formation of lights, with three white lights in a triangle in the front, and several white lights and one flashing red on the bottom of it. The red was in the center. As we continued past, the other witness turned their head to watch it. The entire craft faded and disappeared. It did not move, it just dissipated into nothing. We didn't see it again.
June 27, 2016 · 10:20 PM · TEARDROP
Grand Rapids, MI
Driving south on 131 near Leonard Street exit in Grand Rapids. Blueish/green teardrop shaped craft suddenly appeared at a high rate of speed just below cloud level. Ran across sky and disappeared after a few seconds. It was like a window opened up in the sky and this object flew through it.
June 26, 2016 · 12:10 AM · SPHERE
Plainwell, MI
My husband and I go out at night on a regular basis and lay in our loungers to look at the stars. It was ten minutes after midnight, when these bright glowing orbs came out of the southeast, moving northwest. There were four orbs lined up following each other spaced evenly apart. Extremely bright yellow center with a glowing red flare. All the same size and looked identical. We live in an area with a lot of trees so they disappeared beyond the trees and then we turned around and saw the fifth one that was much further back. It looked identical and followed the same path. There was no sound. We looked for a structure that the lights might have been attached to but there was not. The lights were independent of each other. It is hard to determine the height but they were above the large oaks but lower than you would typically see a small flying airplane. I am the same person who reported two orange globes back in November 2015.
June 25, 2016 · 11:00 PM
Holland, MI
((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Holland michigan time after 11pm date quite frequently. Since seeing the aircraft mention in a film on netflix " ufos: the best evidence caught on tape" about 7 minutes and 20 seconds into the second epispode ((NAME DELETED)) filmed the exact same triangle in the exact same state. May second 1998 . they refer to it as a " cluster of orbs " that make up the craft ive discribed. I've seen this multiple nights ive done some research and cannot find anything other than the mentioned video. I do not have the camera quality good enough to take a picture or a video but if givin the chance i can help pinpoint the locations ive seen it . Not a crazed fan just an honest person looking for a honest awnser . ((END ADDENDUM))
June 22, 2016 · 10:00 PM
St. Johns, MI
I looked out of my window facing due south. I saw a stationary object in the night sky. It was 2 orange globes; one on top of the other with a white light shining down from the top of the globe. The orange gobes flickered a little. It sat stationary for 2 minutes while I was watching it. Stepped away momentarily, when I looked out again it was gone. I looked around to see if it had moved to another area & couldn't fnd it. It was a clear night.
June 18, 2016 · 11:58 PM · LIGHT
Midland, MI
I was driving on the highway so couldn't get a great look but I can't explain what I saw. I snapped several pictures through the windshield with my phone but they are low quality. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
June 17, 2016 · 8:00 PM · OVAL
Milan, MI
Saw what appeared at first as bright star directly overhead. Told the wife it was too bright out (full sunlight) to see even the brightest star. It was moving very very slow, to the left and then to the right. I got out my binoculars and it appeared to be perhaps a weather balloon except it had a very bright light that would pulsate a bit and change color, red, blue, green, orange. The light was at the base and above the bright light it was opaque and you could sort of see through it. It was rather shaped like an old fashioned light bulb. It was in the sky for about an hour and then all of a sudden it rose higher in the sky and it disappeared rather quickly. I am going to guess it was at around 35,000 feet. In my 57 years, I have never ever seen anything like this. Over the past few weeks, I have seen a military F-18 Hornet flying overhead at various times during the day. I wonder if they are looking for what I saw last evening.
June 17, 2016 · 12:02 AM · LIGHT
Muskegon, MI
At approximately 00:02 on June 17th, 2016, a co-worker and I were standing outside of the building and looked to the south, toward the moon, and immediately saw a very bright light, moving to the north at a very fast pace. Our first thought was that it was the space station, but it appeared to be on a trajectory moving away from Earth, and it dimmed and reduced in size very quickly. The approximate viewing time was 30 seconds or less, and the object appeared to shrink into the distance as it moved to the north. We went back inside and looked up the viewing schedule for the ISS and discovered that it was neither the ISS, nor was it a scheduled viewing time of the CYGNUS satellite.
June 11, 2016 · 9:40 PM · FORMATION
Westland, MI
My wife called me outside when she saw a flashing light in the sky overhead. It was heading north to south. Appeared near the clouds. Multicolored...red, orange, yellow. They almost looked like planes at that distance. Yet smaller. But no noise as a jet. Not a sound. One after another. Just guessing... 2 miles apart. Exact same path. After the eighth one, the ninth came from a slight different pattern. More from northeast but heading in the same direction as the others. No commercial planes ever fly that close together. Just as the last one was gone south, a commercial plane flew over our house. We are close to the DTW airport. It was loud, flashing lights like all craft of its nature. And then a second. My question is can you ask a pilot landing here if they saw the same lights? I know they had to at least seen one or two. We did not video record it because it happened so quick and certainly didn't expect to see that many.
June 9, 2016 · 12:00 PM · LIGHT
De Tour Village, MI
Hoax?? Date of the alleged event is not indicated by the source, so we have assigned an arbitrary date. Source elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact data. PD
June 3, 2016 · 10:55 PM · DISK
Lincoln Park, MI
I was getting off the freeway on my way home from work, when I saw it in the sky. It was definitely not a blimp or plane. It was a metallic saucer that was spinning slowly and moving slowly across the sky. It had three or four blinking lights that would change from red to green. It was self illuminated and glowing, almost like the moon. It was quite obviously a flying saucer. I'll be honest I was very scared and freaked out a little as I have never seen anything like it before. But I was very certain of what I was seeing. When I got off the ramp, I followed it for several minutes and got myself a bit lost. Eventually it flew over a residential area and I lost sight of it, amidst the houses and trees. I drove around for about half an hour after that but could not find it again. We are uncertain as to whether this is a serious report, or not. PD
May 27, 2016 · 11:05 PM · UNKNOWN
Eastpointe, MI
My name is ((name deleted)), on the night of 5-27-16 from 11:05 to about 11:17 p.m., I witnessed a UFO. I was working at my facility when I decided to step out for a cigarette. Upon doing so, I noticed a blue light soaring through the sky. I thought nothing of it, until I noticed it had no other lights. Then the craft came to a dead stop. Once this happened I called my co-worker outside to see what I was seeing. The craft stopped south west of our location. I would say about a mile away from us, and hovered at about 2000 feet. The craft began to slowly move and 3 orbs of light came out of the bottom of the craft and shot back up into it. That seemed to start a sequence because the craft became a very bright red and began to descend in what seemed to be a smooth and straight line. The craft disappeared behind the treeline by Selfridge Air Force Base, Mi.
May 27, 2016 · 11:05 PM · SPHERE
Eastpointe, MI
On the night of 5/27/16, between the times of 11:05 and 11:11 pm, my co-worker called me out of the home we work at to point out a weird object flying in the sky that was traveling from the west, headed east, and finally came to rest positioned somewhere over or near Selfridge Air Force base. When the object first appeared it was very blue and very brightly illuminated, the lights weren't flickering or dimming like in typical aircraft. This was not like any star or planet I have ever seen in the sky before. The object was slightly bigger in appearance than the North Star, and emitted no sounds, and moved very smoothly, until it came to a complete stop northeast of where we were looking and positioned. When the object came to a stop about 3 to 4 smaller orb like blue lights came out of the bottom of the object and hovered there for about 1 minute, before the orbs disappeared back into the object and the object turned solid bright vibrant red. The object remained still in the sky for about another 2 minutes, and then started to lower itself to the ground. It continued to descend to the ground while remaining bright solid red, until it disappeared out of our visual field. The whole time the object remained the same size and the lights were always visible to my coworker and me. This event lasted a total of 6 minutes. The house we are located at is in Eastpointe, Michigan, at 9 Mile Rd., just west of Hayes. The object was viewed moving just north of us, probably about 8-10 miles away, towards the Harrison Township/Mount Clemens area. This is the approximate location that Selfridge Air Force Base is situated compared to where we are. The weather is clear and cloud cover is almost none. It is not raining and there are hardly any stars visible, so this object really stuck out. I am not sure the altitude of the object but I do know that while my co-worker and I were viewing this event, the object was positioned between two telephone poles, and was about 3 feet above the wire that crosses between the poles. My best guess would be that this object was flying at the elevation of about 20,000 feet to 25,000 feet in the air. It wasn't as high as a plane would normally be seen flying. My co-worker attempted to get video footage while this whole thing was happening. We don't know if the video came out, or is clear, because it was taken on his smart phone, and the screen is small and marred from overuse. I am working on transferring the video from his phone to my computer to see it we can upload it to get a better look to see if we were able to catch is even on film. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and she sounded to us to be quite serious-minded. We suspect that she is an excellent witness. She works in the field of medicine. PD
May 23, 2016 · 11:05 PM · OTHER
Grand Rapids, MI
Event started with two white starlike/satellite-like craft traversing the sky from North to South and "parking" in the sky above SE Grand Rapids area. Then two multi-colored light, triangular vehicles moved from West to East and parked it in the Eastern Sky, estimating 10-20 miles east of GR at around 2,000ft alt. Then a black meteor looking thing traversed the sky from the North, where the two satellites came from, to the South (near over the GRRFord airport) and the black object vanished on the Southern Horizon (I've got buildings around so I can't see the real Horizon). A few seconds after the black object traversed the sky, a triangle of stars in the Southern sky, which I had previously not noticed except that they were there for at least 15 minutes while I was talking on the phone to my fiancee, suddenly moved in unison as if they were falling out of the sky down and to the left (as if in the direction of the black object's trajectory terminus). I opened the porch door to tell my night nurse to come see the UFOs and she came out and saw another "star" fall out of the sky toward the same spot. She freaked out and ran back inside afraid. I watched for awhile to see if anymore activity, but only saw a few of the "blinkies" (stars that blink on and off and move around a little - which I usually only see in thunderclouds). The "parked" stars vanished while I was watching the triangle drop. Whole thing seemed like either a greeting party or an interference party for whatever that black thing was.
May 17, 2016 · 4:00 AM · FIREBALL
Canton, MI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 9, 2016 · 11:15 PM · FIREBALL
Commerce, MI
There were two very bright orange fireballs that started off very close together and then slowly came apart. They both decreased and increased in brightness every thirty seconds or so. I believed them to be bright planes at first until they just stopped moving for a while, then one took off to the south and the other slowly moved east before circling back around to travel back south after the other one. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 30, 2016 · 12:34 AM · CIRCLE
Holland, MI
One blue two white lights on outer edges red in center very high up only one bright enough to get a photo wirh my cell i thought it was a aircraft but the lights were very very bright for the height seemed satalite height then i saw another and another different altitudes and for an hour there was no movement at all then one began to move closer to the other then went back to where it was and remained. They are still there