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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.
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July 4, 2015 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Novi, MI
July 4, 2015. My wife and I viewed groups of unusual red lights moving across the night sky over Novi, MI, and other areas of metro Detroit on July 4, 2015. The sky was clear and the temperature around 78 degrees with the usual stars in the sky very clear and visible. No planes overhead either. The neighbors were firing off fireworks as usual for the Fourth of July holiday. Our Aunt, who lives in Westland, about 8 miles south of us, called at 10:17 PM on July 4, 2015, saying she was seeing strange red lights in the north sky moving slowly and methodically from west to east. So we went outside and looked into the south-southwest sky and saw a strange looking red light in the form of an orb or circle moving slowly across the sky from west to the east. Then about 6 more started appearing, one at a time, in the same sky moving from west to east. They moved slowly and then eventually formed a "C" like formation, but about 3 minutes later they moved into a J like formation. After another few minutes the lights started to move towards each other and then started fading two lights into one. Each of the six lights in turn moved to the next highest in the sky and the two became one and then the next one left doing the same thing fading into the next highest red light until there was only one red light left. When there was only one red orb left it slowly faded away without any sound or exhaust. I even used binoculars but they just appeared to be a bright red light. They did not have any shape like a plane or helicopter and there was no sound coming from these red orbs. After this first group faded out or basically travelled to the east out of sight we went onto our back deck and observed more of the same in the north sky. The exact same thing happened that we observed in the front yard. One at a time, travelling from west to east they were bright red until eventually forming another C formation that eventually morphed into a J like formation in the north-northeast sky. After a couple of minutes one at a time they started flying slowly into the highest light and each in turn disappeared into it. When only the one red light was left, it slowly faded away and then nothing else was seen in the sky anywhere. After the fireworks were finished by 11 PM the red orbs had stopped showing up. It seemed like the red orbs were somehow trying to react to the fireworks going off in the sky. But the red orbs were much higher in the sky then any fireworks that were fired into the sky. The red orbs by the way they were moving must have been under so! me kind of intelligent guidance.
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Livonia, MI
I was sitting in a chair in front of our house about 22:00 – 22:30 EDT on July 4, 2015 watching the neighborhood fireworks. I was facing east as most of the fireworks were going off that way, but some were also being set off to the south, as well as to the north of my spot. At one point I noticed several reddish orange lights that were moving to the east-southeast. They were directly south when I initially noticed them. At first I saw two that appeared to be a little higher, thus smaller. I would estimate them to have been 4000 to 4300 ft in altitude, but it didn't seem clear how accurate that might have been. Lower than those and seemingly a little larger (apparent size) were two more with one above and leading the other, also moving to the east. These I estimated to be about 2500 – 3000 ft altitude. I thought of how helicopters would be flying while I was watching. Within a minute of noticing them, the first two disappeared although I felt at first they just went out of range. Three more appeared to the southwest and moved similarly to, and at the same apparent altitude, as the second two. The higher of the second set had disappeared by this time, then shortly after that, the other one also disappeared. As the third group moved directly south of where I was, another two became visible to the southwest. I returned my attention to the set of lights south of me and two of them disappeared as I watched. The third of that group continued on to my southeast, and it was possible that it changed direction toward the southeast at that time. The upper of the next set of two disappeared somewhere to my southeast but the other continued on as the single remaining one of the previous group had done. Two more sets of two became visible in about the same timing and location, also moving to the east, and one of those four also remained to follow the others that stayed visible going toward the southeast. To recap: several groups of similar to identical reddish orange lights moved from southwest to southeast relative to my position. Most disappeared but three total appeared to continue visibly to the southeast. The movement seemed to be how helicopters would have been flying but there was no sound. They might have been 1.5 – 3 miles away. There were no strobe lights or red beacons I could see, but if traditional aircraft, the port red light would have been visible. However, the color was more orange than I would have thought. The lack of standard aircraft lighting was strange as where they were is the approach to Detroit Metro airport ; we live directly under the westernmost approach and aircraft would be flying toward the southwest right into where these lights were. No aircraft made an approach during that time, however. There seemed to be a shape to the lights, sort of an irregular trapezoid on its side, base to the rear, and the top segment at more of an angle than the bottom one. This, though, was an impression and not easily discernible. After the first 4 groups had gone by I had the idea to try my smart phone video to capture images, but the quality is pretty poor. I offer it anyway, if desired. I am a retired US Navy Aerographers Mate (meteorology and oceanography) with 20 years service. I have a private pilot's license but haven't flown since 1992. I am currently between jobs.
July 3, 2015 · 10:50 PM · LIGHT
Marquette, MI
My brother went outside to check on fireworks. Called me outside to identify something. Fireworks were in the northeast. Due east was a very red star like light object estimated magnitude 1. Sky condition cloudy no stars visible. Object moved suddenly to the south about one hands width and disappeared. Checked out heavens-above.com star chart found nothing in that area of the sky that color or magnitude…
July 3, 2015 · 10:15 PM · FORMATION
Bangor and Bloomingdale (between), MI
Was heading west on M-43 Highway, from Kalamazoo to Bangor. Saw formation of 5 non-blinking red/pink lights in a zig-zag formation in the sky. Lights were to the left-side of M-43 Highway near 40th Street. Traveled along 40th Street about 3 miles and lights moved in a slow-steady path. Turned the car around and drove past several trees, lights were gone once we got back to M-43.
July 3, 2015 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Tyrone Township, MI
Witnessed a red pulsating light (red/orange/yellow) adjacent to Saturn and Venus in the western sky. Travelled slowly to the south and then faded from view.
July 2, 2015 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Livonia, MI
At 10:00 p.m. on July 2, 2015, I noticed four very low lights that could be seen to the northwest of Livonia, Michigan, off of Seven Mile Road and Newburgh. They looked to be over the Northville, or Farmington Hills, area. There were two larger lights in front that seems to be pulsating. In the back, were two more smaller round lights that didn't seem to be pulsating. I went inside to get my parents. We could not make the shape out of the craft. The four lights possibly being two large ones in the front of the craft, and two smaller ones in the back of the craft. It was visible for about two hours. At 12:30 a.m., on July 3, I checked back outside, after going inside for a half hour, and the lights were finally gone. They were stationary for two hours, and no one else seemed to be outside viewing the lights in our area, they were very visible and unlike anything we have ever seen, in person, in our lifetime. It resembled lights we had seen in previous UFO footage aired on television programs.
July 2, 2015 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Pinckney, MI
Venus & Jupiter?? PD
July 2, 2015 · 2:55 AM · CHANGING
Salie, MI
My family and I just moved out of downtown Ann Arbor, to a more rural city outside of AA called Saline. The portion we moved to is very rural, with neighbors a good distance apart, lots of open space, but most importantly, very little city light pollution. Tonight is the 2nd night in the house, and I had just finished unpacking a load of equipment from some boxes, and decided I'd take a seat on the freshly moved couch. It was roughly 2:45am. I hopped online on my laptop for about 10 minutes, when I got an urge to look to my left out of a window in my home, which faces to the west. I immediately spotted a very odd pulsating set of white-ish lights that would occasionally flash and change color just above the tree-line behind our neighbor's house. For scale reference, the window is on the western-most wall in our house, and our neighbors house is roughly 150-200 yards or so past the window through a large open field. I immediately grabbed my phone and started to record video of the light that initially drew my attention. I noted the time when I turned my phone on as 2:57. The color of the light when I began recording changed to translucent red. It was at this time I noticed via my video display as I recorded that there were other reddish lights exhibiting similar behavior with flashing red color to the south of the object I was focused on. My immediate gut reaction was that what I was seeing was 1 very large single object with potentially many smaller objects accompanying it. I zoomed out and then back in, and this time when the image came back into focus there were two grayish white blobs/shapes slightly closer relative to me than the lights were, which were also still present "behind" the blobs in my view. For a short period following the two blobs appearing, I continued to record, occasionally zooming out and then back in, or shifting the angle of the camera back and forth attempting to gain better focus, etc. The two blobs went away, and I was back to the original single light-source for a period. I decided to ask my wife to wake up and look, mostly in an attempt to see if I was crazy from being tired from the move, or if I was really seeing and recording whatever this was. After saying her name once, I zoomed out for a moment, then zoomed all the way back in. As I did this, I was shocked to see 5 clearly defined blobs pop into focus out of nowhere, at the same location and distance the lights were seen at! After getting over that shock, I realized the lights were also still visible, but I had the distinct feeling that at least 3 of the new white/grayish figures were sentient beings of some sort, as if suddenly a wall become invisible, exposing them. My wife by this time was next to me viewing this all along with me. To me, it seemed like at least 1 (the one on the far right) of these white/grayish "things" was moving what appeared to be a head at the end of a thin neck or something. I continued to observe this scene for several more minutes, with at least one more smaller white/grayish thing becoming visible below the others. All the while I would zoom in and out to confirmed to myself that the size of these were shrinking/growi! ng as I did so, proving that they were there in the distance roughly where I had been watching the lights. Then suddenly, they disappeared. I kept rolling, and zoomed out. Once I did, I noticed the lights still present, and began to zoom back in, when I again noticed more white/grayish shapes/things present. This time though, the shape was much different, and as crazy as it sounds coming from a non-religious person, there now appeared to be 3 distinct white/grayish objects present: 2 smaller objects on either side of a larger center object, with the larger center object looking strikingly like what my brain told me an Angel should look like, with arms raised in front of it wearing a white robe... very, very weird feeling at this point that was incredibly different than the entire event up to this point. I changed my position slightly now, from where I was standing, and zoomed out. I could visibly see that the white/grayish things were changing positioning in my view, and it appeared like 1-2 more "joined" the others. There were now 6 distinctly visible, in 2 rows of 3. Also worth noting, the lights that originally drew my to discover all of this were still visible and flashing/pulsing during all of this. This brings us roughly to the 10minute mark of the video. Near the 11min mark, more action takes place. At the 11min mark, the white/grayish objects are now gone, and there appears to be other "ships" or something visible, along with 3 circular objects appearing to be lights present on the object to the left of the view (with an additional object to the right of the view). The white light-like objects were solid, but the two "ship" like objects were translucent and "glittery" to view. I stayed watching these for a short period, then shut down and went outside to attempt to view. Unfortunately I did not record when out there but was able to still see the object(s). I had an intense feeling of being watched as soon as I stepped outside, which is why I didn't record -- I got back inside immediately after the feeling was way too intense to stay out. Important to note: I do live in the landing flight path of a small local airport. I can say with strong confidence given the ~12-13min recorded stationary time + 5-7min after recording that it remained, this was no small aircraft landing anywhere. The objects that were observed were all relatively stationary other than the noted movements during the 12minutes described above and recorded. After which, they moved beyond the tree line and I lost sight. This all took place between 2:55am and 3:08am Eastern Daylight Time. FlightAware shows no Arrivals to the local airport mentioned at the times observed, nor anywhere near them. I have uploaded the video to youtube and can provide a link if requested.
June 29, 2015 · 12:15 AM · LIGHT
Paw Paw, MI
I seen two bright red lights in the sky in waverly township. They stayed red for at least three minutes then disappeared only to do the same about three to four times before finally disappearing. The duration was about 10-15 minutes long. I could tell the we're fairly close maybe about a couple feilds away from my home. Just before disappearing it seamed the last time they blinked on they were a little more west than before. I first noticed them out my back window then my son and I went outside and stood on the table to see them. They were too low to the ground to be a plane that's for sure.
June 27, 2015 · 11:45 PM · CIRCLE
Croswell, MI
During a late night summer drive, around quarter to midnight, I was driving westbound on Galbraith Rd toward Wildcat Rd in Croswell, Mi when all of a sudden, the radio got very fuzzy and unclear until the power in my vehicle seized. At the same time, an extremely large circular craft flew over head illuminating the farm fields on either side of the road for at least quarter mile. It flew ahead from behind me and accelerated past with ease before making an instantaneous right turn following the shape and direction of the road. After the craft passed, my vehicle immediately regained power as if there was no problem. It was similar to the affects of a mild EMP.
June 26, 2015 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
South Haven, MI
A slightly bent rectangle green light flashed in the sky and was followed by three other flashes of the same light, but in faster intervals going downwards. I could see some of the building lights from the town, but the ones I described were away from them, also at a much higher altitude. The town I live on is right on the lake's shoreline, and the lights were in the direction of the water. However, I'm not completely sure if it was directly above the lake since the lights seemed pretty distant. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 25, 2015 · 5:00 PM · DISK
Marlette, MI
We have had what I call, "Suspect Sky," over Michigan, the weekend of June 25th, 2015, so I took a quite a few digital pictures from my phone. During the couple days I told my wife that I feel something isn't right, but couldn't explain anything more than that into words. I found myself saying it repeatedly over the 2 days of photographing. After going through the photos late at night on the 26th, I found more than a few anomalies which I would consider "suspect", but after zooming in on 100 pictured or so my heart went through chest when I found to saucer shaped UFOs flying from south to north. They were a good distance away on the pic, but clear as day zoomed in. I will email 3 photos. One normal pic, one same distance with the UFOs circled, and one zoomed in. Please feel free to contact me about these photos and the other anomalies I captured. I also have video of the sky on both days. Thank you
June 23, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Auburn Hills, MI
This is a second time I've seen this in a month. Both times, it was about 10pm, and I was driving north on I-75 before GLC. First time, it was on the left side. This time it was on the right. I chalked it up to a helicopter with a high beam light directed towards my general direction. It hovered and seems to move slowly. The lights were bright white/yellow and flickers. I saw it again today and saw how it disappeared into the sky (into the distance until it disappeared). It was too fast to be a helicopter. The light dimmed really fast, and I had enough daylight to be able to see the shape but I could see the light dimming quickly, turning into a speck, and it disappeared off into a distance. All within a couple of seconds. We have corrected the time above. PD
June 23, 2015 · 1:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Grand Rapids, MI
At first I thought they were birds but then I saw each one of them had a green light underneath. They were 4 white objects flying at low speed in a formation like a plane wing, not 2 wings but one. At times, they broke the formation to touch between them, but always kept moving ahead. What impressed me more was a round, circular, smaller and not too shiny object fliying right behind them, pretty much similar to a star. In the past couple of months I've seen other objects a couple of times, circular and like orange color. First one alone and later like 4 more flying in wing formation, What I guessed was they might be drones or something, but what I saw last night is definitely out of this world. I don't know why I don't hear more people talking obout this sights, they seem to be common around here.
June 21, 2015 · 11:10 AM · UNKNOWN
Dearborn Heights, MI
On 6/21/2015, at about 11:10pm, in the western sky, an entity slowly came into view from further west. Only the lights were visible, which were 2 red, 1 green, and 2 neon purple (more like blacklights) lights all intermittently flashing, as it stopped just to the lower left of the moon. You could hear no sound from it. After about 3 or 4 minutes, it literally disappeared, as if it just turned all of its lights off at once. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 20, 2015 · 11:20 PM · LIGHT
Holly, MI
2015jun20 at 11:20pm ufo sighting. The 15-18 lights were orangish-yellow on top and bottom, red in the center. They were flying rather low (from my vantage point, maybe 20 degrees up from horizon) in groups of three in a straight line, from west to east in the northern sky. They seemed to pulse & made no sound, and were traveling at approximately 30mph. When they disappeared behind the trees, I got in my car and drove north about a 1/2 mile to a clearing (appox. 2 minutes) where I had clear view for 10 miles to the east (the direction they were headed) and they were just gone. Note: as straight as their flight formation was, they may have been one long craft…
June 18, 2015 · 11:00 PM · CHANGING
Marshall, MI
Another light appeared at bottom of light and looked to be attached to original light. Moments later a third light appeared under the second light. All 3 light were vertical, and attached in nature, and then faded away. We suspect a sighting date of June 18, and have amended the date above. PD
June 14, 2015 · 12:30 AM · LIGHT
Hazel Park, MI
I saw one ball of red light flying low and coming in my direction. It then shifted toward the heavens and disappeared into the clouds. I then looked South and saw two more of the same object flying the same trajectory. We wonder whether the correct time may have been 0030 hrs., i.e. thirty minutes past midnight. PD
June 10, 2015 · 12:00 AM · FLASH
Mason, MI
Strange green and blue flashes appeared in the night sky at around midnight. They were so bright that they lit up my living room. I decided to see if anyone else had seen them, so I scoured my social media sites, and sure enough, multiple people saw it. It was not stormy and it faded away instead of flashing away. It only lasted about 10-20 minutes. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 6, 2015 · 11:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Mason, MI
All five lights disappeared just before entering clear sky with a clear view of the night sky.
June 5, 2015 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
Mount Pleasant, MI
Last Thursday night, I was sleeping at home, when I woke up with the feeling that somebody was breaking in my house. I went to have a look, and as I went to get up out of bed, I found myself paralyzed in place. I felt really scared, like I was having a nightmare or something. When I tried to close my eyes, I couldn’t close them, and I looked around up in the air, I assumed myself to be in a dream, but I couldn’t wake up, so I started scream, and before I could get a sound out in a single second, I was floating above my bed and I felt a deep very low frequency hum like a large transformer was inside my body. Then I could see behind me back at my bed, and my cat, who sleeps by me, didn’t even seem to care or notice that I wasn’t in my bed anymore. I was absolutely terrified and right, as I was about to scream, I started floating toward my wall of my bedroom. To my shock, I went right thru the wall, like I was a ghost or the wall was liquid, and as I saw thru my wall, I was feeling this vibration intensify greatly, like a force of my body was going to explode from inside out. I passed out completely, and when I remember waking up, I realized that I was in some type of white science looking laboratory room of some sort. I again, assumed I was dreaming, until I saw a face looking down at me. It was a large head, with black bug-like eyes, and in my head as I went to scream, I heard it say don’t be afraid of me, you are safe with me. I don’t know how to explain it, but it said it thru my brain, like a mind reader would read your mind. The voice sounded like I was saying it to myself, instantaneously to myself. Then I went to ask, what’s going on, and before I could talk, again it said don’t worry, and said we’re zeta brothers. I didn’t really understand what that means, but as I could see more clearly, I immediately noticed, that the! se weren’t people at all, it was an oblong looking bug eyed grey skinned, probably around 3 feet tall, with a silver suit made of some kind of spandex. It had a tiny little slit where the mouth was, and just holes for ears. It's head was wobbling on what I remember thinking was a tiny neck right in the middle, and it's hands looked like they were really skinny and long, with almost no texture, just like the texture of the lining of a hot dog casing. This thing that I can only explain look wise, as an alien creature. When I asked it to go home, another one came in the room, and they were talking to each other without talking, and one said, something in a weird sounding almost African type of language, and they came back next to me but in an instant, no walking, just teleporting back to above me, and the other of the two took off my pants, and put a strange circular light orb on my genitals, and it was very painful. I immediately felt as though I was being burned on my penis, and it then took the ball off me, and the pain instantly stopped. Then the one holding the light ball disappeared in a flash out of my view, and the other above me said I want to show you him, and a different taller bright white one of these things came out walking with what looked like a little girl, but with some of the facial features of these creatures, and it looked up at me and said “you know who I am”, This scared me terribly and immediately I remember falling back asleep. When I woke up again, it was the next morning and I was back lying in my bed, without my covers being disturbed, and immediately assumed it was very scary nightmare. Then, I when I went to get out of bed, my ankle felt as though the same vibrational burning sensation was coming from under my skin by my bone in my leg, so I looked down, and noticed that there is a small maybe 1/8th of an inch circular cut out and burned mark on my leg, but it goes down like 4 layers of my skin, as if someone had literally punched a hole with a paper punch out of it, and then burned it closed. For the past few days, I haven’t really been able to tell if this was a dream, or real, but strange feelings happen to my leg and I hear weird static sounds in my head when I feel it. I keep also, seeing a strange pattern of a triangle, with two circles in it, which looks like some sort of geometric constellation when I start to fall asleep every night since. I don’t know still if I was just dreaming of this, or if it really happened, but I can't explain why I am still feeling and seeing weird things, or the hole on my leg I found the morning after this all happened. We have tried to contact the source of the report, principally to inquire whether the report is a sincere one, or whether it might be a hoax. PD
June 1, 2015 · 1:13 AM · CHANGING
Saginaw, MI
I was looking at the northern lights above the house. I attempted to take a picture, but the lighting was too off for me to take a quality picture. I turned and took a look at the nearly full moon to which I saw a tiny flash of light to the right far side of the moon. I thought it was just a mere near by star. I took my phone out and took some pictures, and that is when I noticed this strange blue object moving, seeming to come from behind the moon moving erratically. I took 5 pictures, in which 4 came out clear with this rather odd object, and the last picture was just black. The object was round, at first, but seemed to change shape ever so slightly. It seems to have a defined outer ring with a blue center and something pulsating in the very middle. I observed the object for about 30 seconds and than it was gone.
May 27, 2015 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Canton, MI
Reddish-orange light traveling at fast speed, heading East over Southwest Michigan. The light appeared to disappear into the atmosphere. Three more similar lights in formation appeared afterwards and seemed to be following behind the first light. They disappeared into the atmosphere as well. A fifth light appeared out of the Western sky and appeared to be the tail end of the group. The light, however, stopped for 5 seconds, then shot up into the atmosphere.
May 25, 2015 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Grand Blanc, MI
We have amended the time above, in order to indicate a nighttime sighting. We have no way of confirming the time, given that the source of the report provided no contact information. PD