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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
January 29, 2016 · 11:55 PM · TRIANGLE
Pontiac, MI
January 29, 2016, 11:55pm, I was on the corner of Walton and Baldwin, waiting on a traffic signal, I noticed very bright lights just above the trees heading north on Walton. This aircraft had 7 lights visible from the front of it, and made no noise. I realized whatever this aircraft was, it was headed right for me, and I began to panic thinking it was going to crash down on top of me. When the aircraft got to Baldwin, it turned gracefully going towards I75, this is when I seen the whole aircraft. It was triangular, it had very bright lights on each corner and smaller lights going down each side, 9 lights total. It was gliding very low and very slow as it went on its way. I did not follow it because it frightened me, and I did not report this incident because basically every one I told laughed at me.
January 29, 2016 · 12:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Rochester Hills, MI
I was standing out on a loading dock on a cigarette break. It was a cloudless day and I was watching a jet liner climb to altitude when I looked almost straight up and saw a glimmer at around 70 degrees (using me looking straight up as 90, I would say the plane was 20-25 above the horizon). At first thought I thought it was a drone because the object was not moving and had what looked like a white light coming from the side of it. The longer I watched it, I noticed the light grow to almost triple the size it was before. I looked away for a second to flick my cigarette and I couldn't find the object in the sky again. The object was stationary during my entire viewing. The only change was the size of the light. I couldn't tell how high the object was, or it's size. After sky gazing for sometime I would assume that the object was at or around cruising altitude for a jet. I could make out a greyish color to the craft, but no discernible shape, just enough to see that there was something that was emitting or reflecting the light. I attempted to take a picture with my cell phone, but the object was too far away to show anything other than pixels. I grabbed my actual camera and tried to find it again but had no luck.
January 23, 2016 · 6:09 PM · OTHER
Niles, MI
As the tail moved away from the moon's face it disappeared. My wife and i began rationalizing what we just saw trying to explain it away, but could not. A few minutes later, the line reappeared at the 1 o'clock position. The size had not changed and the angle it traveled across the moon face was the same. This time it decended from 1 o'clock to its original position between 10 and 4. It only covered the right half of the moon during this transit. When it reached its original position between 10 and 4, it exited via the 4 o'clock position. Once we lost sight of the silhouette second time, it never returned.
January 19, 2016 · 10:30 AM · CIRCLE
Clio, MI
We kept looking at it for another 15 mins and it just kept hovering and barley moving and then all of a sudden disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 19, 2016 · 8:49 AM · UNKNOWN
Cedar Springs, MI
Watched a bright white light in the Eastern sky. It was strange because the sun was up and the light from the sun was hiding all stars. The white light dimmed after about 15 seconds to about 50% strength. 15 more seconds later, it disappeared completely. A meteor would have gradually dimmed. This was instantaneous change. As if thrusters went from full to half to zero strength.
January 8, 2016 · 8:10 AM · LIGHT
Royal Oak, MI
I saw a white light due south just above the horizon. It looked like a bright white star. It was motionless and it sat stationary in the sky until within about 5 seconds it faded and disappeared.
January 6, 2016 · 6:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Vassar, MI
While at stop sign noticed a triangular craft hovering over a field. Had unusual orange glow underneath. Rolled down window and there was no sound to it all. Traffic was coming and when I went to look at it again, it was gone. Huge craft was not a drone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 4, 2016 · 8:44 PM · OVAL
Twin Lake, MI
Sirius? We have amended the date above. PD
December 31, 2015 · 8:10 PM · SPHERE
Ypsilanti, MI
While driving east on Textile road my wife, oldest son an myself noticed an orange glowing object hovering above the road. We perceived the object to be much larger than just the glowing globe area as the rest was shrouded in a mist that obscured the trees along the road in front of us. I slowed the car as we approached, to almost a full stop and found that we were directly under the glowing area of the object. I looked carefully at this and can describe it as looking through a distorted lense. There was a lot going on in terms of changing colors and shapes however I believe I observed an appendage or a mast of some sort that appeared to be generating the mist or distortion that was shrouding the remainder of the object. This was very weird and very strange and distance perception seemed to be distorted. I disengaged my eyes from the object, pulled onto Cherrywood Dr. and my son and I exited the car to get a better look however the object was gone. My wife expressed concern that a man on the sidewalk was staring at us so we got back in the car, turned it around, turned right back onto Textile Rd. and continued eastbound. Shortly after turning back onto Textile we again acquired the object this time further to our east moving north and crossing over Textile road. As we got closer the object changed direction and begain moving in a northeasterly direction darting from side to side as it moved along. The object simply then vanished. We were very close to this thing and I believe it was only 20 to 30 feet from us as we observed the glowing area of it. Very weird and very strange.
December 15, 2015 · 4:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Fairgrove, MI
Took my dog out around 4 in the morning. I looked up at the stars and saw this large square shaped object silently passing overhead, headed west. I couldn’t tell how far up but maybe 3 thousand feet or higher. The object blocked out the stars as I watched for a few minutes and could see this very large object was square shaped. As it passed overhead, a red light appeared at the back of the object and shot out towards the east. I couldn’t make out the shape of the red light or size. This red light quickly disappeared and I continued to watch as the larger object continue westward for about two more minutes.
December 15, 2015 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Camden, MI
I was driving home when I noticed a bright orange light near the horizon of the western sky. I live in the country, so it is not possible that the light could be from a city. The light would grow brighter and larger in size, then would fade a bit and become smaller. My cell phone camera was all I had on hand, and unfortunately it does not take great night shots.
December 12, 2015 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Hamburg, MI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 11, 2015 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Oakland Township, MI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Possible hoax?? PD
December 10, 2015 · 4:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Fairgrove, MI
Please, this is not a joke or a hoax. I swear this experience to be true. I let my dog out around 4 in the morning, went out with her. I looked up and saw this huge square shaped object floating over our backyard. It was headed west following the state hwy. it was going at a slow pace and could see the shape was square because it blocked out the stars. There’s no traffic, a farming community and all was quiet. There were no lights on the object. However, an object flew out the backend and was lit up with a red light and flew east, in the opposite direction. As I watched, I just felt this jaw dropping feeling of awe, never seen anything like this in my life. I still think about it sometimes and it’s like, what the heck did I see? I am an honest man, have many friends who will attest to that. Worked all my life, always a positive outlook, no mental issues, known for my honesty.
December 9, 2015 · 10:59 PM · FIREBALL
Frenchtown (Monroe), MI
At Brest Bay Marina area, Frenchtown, MI. Two witnesses Observed 2 fireballs, orange/yellow in color, traveling together with a third following close behind. Travel was from the South to the North over shoreline and land adjacent to Lake Erie. A few minutes later a 4th fireball was observed traveling the same route.
December 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Norton Shores, MI
Around 22:00 on Friday, December 4, I saw between 5 and 10 orange rectangular lights drifting across the night sky in a general northeastern direction. The National Weather Channel state the wind direction was blowing at 7mph in a SSW direction.
December 4, 2015 · 7:00 PM · DISK
Clare, MI
Driving home in evening, on highway saw lights come out of no where. thought it was a plane at first. but didn't fly accross the sky just sat there a few moments.. an glided off flashing lights all around it. white lights.. then my grandson noticed 3 others white lights below it following it. there size was of a plane. larger than stars.. very bright. moving off to the west.
December 4, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CHANGING
Alanson, MI
headed home (mackinaw city) from visiting mom at mclaren hospital (petoskey),i spotted 2 bright lights which i thought was a plane with landing lights and looking south east and realized as i glanced up again to my surprise they were stationary and as i got closer going down the fairly steep hill coming to the light from chicago street at the intersection of 31&68 the 2 large round lights turned into 4, it was around 6pm and heavy traffic as i turned right (south) on 31 and watching and driving i went 100 -200 yards turning right into the gas station to park and watch and make sense of these lights i pulled to close to the gas station canopy so i backed up and looked up only to witness them impossibly vanish in front of my eyes,i had no alchol and no i wasnt smoking anything and as much traffic as there was someone else had to see them,please dont tell me ive lost my mind and seeing things,what got me is 2 smaller bright white lights turned into 4 much bigger round lights and they were crossing one another at first 2 lights side by side turned into 4 lights in a straight line and changed formation to 2 side by side and behind them the other 2 they criss crossed and vanished and this all happened in 3-5 mins
December 3, 2015 · 5:30 AM · SPHERE
Bay City, MI
LOOKED LIKE LIGHTS BARS, OR SPIKES, RED, GREEN, AND WHITE EMANATING FROM A CENTER POINT TO FORM A SPHERE. FIRST NOTICED JUST BEFORE 05:30, STILL THERE AT 07:25. AT LEAST 5 UNITS, SPACED APPROX. 40 DEGREES APART. ONE 15 DEGREES EAST OF MOON. GETTING LIGHT OUT (DAWN), AND I CAN SEE THEM BETTER. I AM NOT CRAZY, WENT OUT TO START CAR, AND BEEN WATCHING SINCE. 07:40 NEARLY DAYLIGHT. CAN BARELY SEE ONE 20 DEGREES EAST OF MOON, BUT THE NET ONE EAST, APPROX. 65 DEGREES EAST OF MOON STILL VISIBLE. OUT Possible sighting of Venus?? PD
December 2, 2015 · 5:45 AM · LIGHT
Flint, MI
At first I thought it was star, but then I noticed it moving. It made turns and hovered. Definitely not an airplane, and made maneuvers that helicopters do not do.
November 28, 2015 · 8:00 PM · OVAL
Macomb, MI
Looking out by front window at 20:00 we saw a number of UFO's with orange lighting around 2000 feet in the sky. The objects were moving from north to south very slow. One craft split from the group going east at very high speed until I could not see the light of the craft, about 3 seconds. Another split from the group about the same time and went straight up until I lost sight of its light. Both crafts came back at almost the same time as fast as they both left. The night was very clear, and as the craft passed over the roof of my house we ran to the back of the house to see them but they all left before they reached the view of my rear windows.
November 28, 2015 · 6:20 AM · CIRCLE
Ann Arbor MI, MI
I looked out the dining room window around 6 in the morning and I saw a circular shape moving across the sky. It had 4 yellow lights and was about 75-100 feet off the ground and was about 50 feet across. I was 6-8 years old at the time of sighting.
November 23, 2015 · 8:45 PM · TRIANGLE
South Lyon, MI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 21, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FLASH
Detroit, MI
I was standing at the bus stop across the street from my house with my girlfriend when these lights started flashing red, blue and green out of the sky it litterly light up the whole sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We have changed the time, to reflect a nighttime sighting. We are unable to confirm the time. PD