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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 16, 2015 · 3:30 PM · LIGHT
Macomb, MI
Driving down the road and I noticed this oval disc shaped light flying around in the sky. I assumed it was some sort of spotlight or airplane but the craft kept changing directions and getting closer then backing away, hovering over the woods in the distance. I then stopped at a red light and it was still moving. When I turned it kept following me, but eventually disappeared behind the woods after a minute or so.
October 14, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Canton, MI
Me and my dad were outside and starting seeing an object with a blinking red light on it that was moving extremely fast that it appeared to be skipping across the sky and then it was making a bunch of really sharp movements upward and down and left and right which airplanes obviously don't do, the craft would also abruptly stop in its path, and then continue on its course. Then we saw another one, it was a blinking light that looked like a star and it was blinking all over the place really fast across the sky. The objects eventually disappeared.
October 14, 2015 · 8:02 PM · CIRCLE
Kentwood, MI
Bright light to our east, close to gerald R ford airport. Ascended slowly until it reached a height similar to where a helicopter would fly. Then stopped momentarily and moved quickly to west. Then disappeared. And it made no sound.
October 12, 2015 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Flat Rock, MI
Three foggy, kind of small, white lights moving fairly fast across the sky. They were moving in a vertical line kind of bobbing side by side as they were moving. My first UFO sighting, never seen anything like it.
October 12, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Stevensville, MI
Bright light, when dim, then moved in a 90 degree and East of current position. Did this repeatable 6 times. and would go bright the dim, then moved. also saw it flash into a configuration of two T's joined at the base.
October 12, 2015 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Coloma, MI
Driving down I-94 going west and the sun was setting. It was clear sky's out. I notice a light in the sky not moving, thought it's early for a star to be out. Kept looking at it and the light got brighter like a flash and than went back to normal for a few second and disappeared. I called to tell a friend and with in minutes the light repeared in a different location for a few seconds and disappeared again.
October 9, 2015 · 11:30 PM · FLASH
Boon, MI
A few moments later, looking at the same portion of the sky, I saw what looked like a short meteor trail at a very shallow angle. Then that light streak went out and a second later I saw another bright flash in the area where the meteor streak had ended. I mentioned this to my friend and she looked in the same section of the sky and said she saw a bright flash followed by another bright flash and detected a very faint streak going towards the area of the flash. I saw these flashes too, but did not detect the faint streak. I then called my husband out and he watched for a few minutes. He observed a light flashing on and off, very slowly, heading ESE towards the west. During this time there was no aircraft noise. The lights my friend and I saw did not travel in a straight line, rather they appeared then disappeared in a small area of the sky. There seemed to be several objects--perhaps 3 or 4. The lights were unusual. I checked several on-line satellite tracking sites and could not find any known craft over my area at this time. What we observed was not the navigation lights of a plane; I don't believe it was flares or sky lanterns. But it's hard to determine size or height in the night sky, so it could have been anything.
October 9, 2015 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Warren, MI
A circular shaped UFO is hovering around in the area while a bunch of helicopters are flying towards it multiple helicopters it's moving farther away.
October 9, 2015 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Bridgeton, MI
Possibly a star, we suspect? PD
October 8, 2015 · 1:51 AM · TRIANGLE
Marshall, MI
To the West in close proximity to Battle Creek airport, I thought I was looking at a very bright star. The light became bigger and moved to the left and then up, which really caught my interest. I then noticed a airplane in the same area approaching the light. The airplane got rather close and then went off course to descend away from the light towards airport to the right of the light. I know it is the airport because I have seen Battle Creek Airshow from my home. As the plane was descending, the light moved right, then up, and finally moved left where it stayed for quite some time. I tried recording on my phone but my phone does not have good resolution. Through the binoculars there appeared to be three light attached to one another. I cannot be so sure on the shape of the light, but it did appear triangular.
October 6, 2015 · 10:00 PM · OVAL
Livonia, MI
We went outside to let our dogs out and I was looking up and noticed that a "star" got really bright and went out. This went on in different parts of the sky for about 15 minutes, a bright pulse, then nothing. It wasn't moving in a straight line but would appear with a flash/pulse of really bright white light. No sound. We did see airplanes fly "close" to the object but nothing happened.
September 30, 2015 · 7:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Lansing, MI
My family and I were out stargazing and noticed a small white light in the sky. We watched it for about twenty minutes. We then saw a triangular UFO with red lights fly up from the ground to hover next to the white light. The red light triangle UFO then flew towards us and I snapped a picture. It made a whirring sound as it flew. We ran!
September 29, 2015 · 7:00 AM · CIRCLE
Kalamazoo, MI
Advertising lights. PD
September 28, 2015 · 1:11 AM · LIGHT
Muskegon, MI
A minute later they reappeared as if the were stars in the night sky. We watched them sway in synchronicity for 2 mins until the became stationary.
September 27, 2015 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Warren, MI
2 bright orange/reddish circle craft flew by a few minutes apart. No sound.
September 27, 2015 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Warren, MI
2 bright orange/reddish circle craft flew by a few minutes apart, No sound.
September 27, 2015 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Flushing, MI
At 21:20 was watching eclipse in progress and looked towards west and noticed what at first i thought was star or planet. went and got binoculars to get better look. What i saw was flashing red light with a green pulsing light. the green light appeared to go around red light. Thought maybe a plane when i looked around to see planes in the area the lights were definitely different. The planes light changed as they moved due to the different angles seen. The object or lights i seen had not moved. I watched the lights for more than 30 minutes than they just disappeared. I dont know what I saw but it was not an airplane or helicopter.
September 27, 2015 · 7:45 PM · FORMATION
Wayne, MI
On September 27th, 2015, at approximately 7:45 - 8pm… I had exited the front entrance of our townhouse, which faces South and had walked across the street to an empty lot belonging to a church to walk the dog. My sister and our neighbor were heading out to the porch to watch the lunar eclipse or blood moon. The night was overcast and the moon was mostly hidden by the clouds, but you could get a glimpse of it from time to time. My cocker Spaniel and I had crossed the field and were approaching a maintenance shed near the church’s parking lot, when I glanced back to see if I could see the moon. Suddenly I saw 3 orange lights in a perfect triangular formation flying from Southeast to Northwest. My first thought was that they were planes or maybe helicopters, but there was something strange about them… There was no sound whatsoever, they were traveling at a steady speed (faster than an airplane), and seemed to float across the sky almost like a Chinese lantern or something. Then two more orbs appeared behind the first three like two points of a triangle, only this time the orbs were red instead of orange. The orange orbs remained in triangular formation with the two red orbs trailing behind somewhat. All 5 of the lights seemed to be moving at the same speed and trajectory. By this time, I was a little scared and had moved close to the shed as not to be detected by aliens or whatever I was seeing. At this time they were almost directly overhead and to my North passing directly by. I could see their elevation increasing as they floated further Westward, never changing speed or breaking formation. As the last red orb was moving away from my location, and I was certain there were no more coming behind, I came out from hiding behind the maintenance shed and walked swiftly home to ask my sister and our neighbor if they has seen the strange lights. How could they have missed it? They were sitting right out front looking up at the moon right? Sadly, they didn’t see a thing and probably think I’m making this up, but I assure you I’m not. I watched the local news at eleven with no mention of the phenomenon, then came upstairs to see if I could find anything online about it. Surely someone else must have seen this. Then I found this site and decided to leave a report in hopes that someone else will corroborate my sighting. We live near the airport… I am very familiar with our normal air traffic… These lights were like nothing I’ve seen before!
September 27, 2015 · 3:50 AM · LIGHT
Midland, MI
Sighting of Venus, currently very prominent in the eastern sky, at the time indicated by the witness. PD
September 26, 2015 · 11:20 PM · OTHER
Dearborn Heights, MI
I just got home from a family function and went to look at the full moon. I saw 3 or 4 bright orange orbs in the sky traveling slowly to the north west. They were pretty close in proximity but not in formation and were diverging from each other slightly then returning. They appeared to be separate and distinct entities with very fluid motion. They appeared to be low in the sky and I lost them behind some trees. I have seen stars, satellites, planes, auroras, etc and this is the first object I have seen like this. I don't know what they were but UFO is actually foremost in my mind.
September 26, 2015 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Okemos, MI
It was approximately 10PM on 9/26/15. I was out in the back yard smoking a cigarette and checking the hot tub. I saw an object approaching from the Southeast. Cloud cover was cumulo-stratus, and there was a full moon. This is why I could see the triangle shape. I can’t estimate speed but it was jet aircraft type speed or greater. I was in Navigation in the Navy, and am an expert boater on the great lakes. The craft had an amber colored light on its starboard side and roughly half way down the leading edge of the its wing. It made absolutely no noise and the light was steady with no flash. Typically, you observe a green light on your left wing and a red light on your wing on approaching view. I was stupefied, as the steady light remained visible as the object went by CPA, and light remained visible as it went away. I thought this was all very peculiar and impossible. The object must have been slightly climbing as it disappeared into the clouds as it went over Lansing, Michigan. It was heading on a direct Northwest direction in terms of Cardinal headings and in TRUE degrees and not magnetic. So, about the time the first object fades into the cloud,; another identical craft approaches from the Southeast and roughly on the same line as the first but slightly on a path to the right of the previous object. Same thing, steady amber light, no flash and no noise. The second object appeared not to be ascending but on level flight just below the cloud ceiling. The third object was exactly the same as the previous two and it approached from the Southeast as well and was on the same line but slightly to the left of the other two objects. At first, I thought UFO, but the silhouette was more like a stealth fighter. Trouble is, I am guessing cloud ceiling was about 10,000 feet and visibility was unlimited and these were much too big to a stealth fighter. I estimate size at jet airliner scale or slightly larger. One last thing; that amber light was particularly large.
September 26, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Royal Oak, MI
My wife and I were out in our back yard and my wife said to me, while pointing up what is that. I looked up to see what was a fiery almost plasma like orange orb of light traveling in a straight line from East to West for about fifteen to twenty seconds. It was completely silent. We lost it in the trees west of us and by the time we ran out in the front yard we saw it for a brief period. It appeared to be about twice the size of Venus and I estimate two to three thousand feet above us. I had no real point of reference to judge its distance from us. Me and my husband were in our backyard having a fire and I looked up and saw a fairly large flying object with what looked like orange fire coming from the front and back of the orb shaped object. It did not make any noise at all. We followed it to the front of the yard and saw it for a couple more seconds and then it disappeared. I have never seen anything like this ever.
September 23, 2015 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Riverview, MI
I saw the same thing last year about this time but I was by myself, so I'm glad I had someone with me this time. WHAT IS IT?
September 22, 2015 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Canton, MI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD