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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 19, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Niles, MI
last night I was doing my daily chores, dishes, laundry, trash, ect. but when I went outside to take the trash barrel up from the curb, because I hadn't done it that morning. I saw flashing lights in the sky, and normally I wouldn't believe in supernatural activity, but when I saw the green, red, and blue, flashing lights. I knew what I saw. It definitely wasn't an airplane, or anything of that sort, because I would've been able to hear it. This spherical figure in the scy was abviously not from this planet, or whatever. before I could take out my phone it was gone . The same thing happened when I was about nine, I was in my back yard in the winter, sledding down my hill, and as I was going down I saw it, the same thing I saw yesterday, in the same spot too. at the time, I didn't pay it much mind, because it was there for a while. and I remember it vividly. until yesterday I never really thought too much about it. this morning I was talking to my little sister, Meadow, ( Seven ) about it, I asked her if she had ever seen anything like it, and what she said shocked me .. "Oh you mean my friends? They always watch me play!" I told my mom, my dad, even some of my teachers, and they all thought I was crazy.. maybe some of you have hade similar indecents? please text me/ Call me
January 15, 2015 · 4:00 PM · LIGHT
Ann Arbor, MI
This event occurred sometime after the new year, either in January or early February of 2015, close to dusk. I observed this event while traveling southwest on Ann Arbor-Saline Rd and looking towards west-southwest. When I first noticed the event I was crossing over I-94 and continued down the road until I reached West Ellsworth Road, where I pulled into the parking lot of First Unitarian Universalist church to observe. I witnessed this event for about 20 minutes, part of the time on the phone and relaying what I was seeing to a friend. As usual in Ann Arbor, it was a cloudy day. Cloud cover was high and intermittent, with large cumulus clouds miles in the distance in the direction I was looking. While driving, I noticed 3 or 4 lights several miles towards the west-southwest. At first I thought they were planes since there are airports nearby, but as I continued to watch I noticed that the lights were moving around one another, up and down, left and right, and continuously crossing paths. The lights were white, solid, and did not blink or pulsate. Their speed of movement was not particularly remarkable. After a few minutes two more lights emerged from the clouds (cumulus clouds were a backdrop for this event) and some of these lights would circle others, or move back and forth, while some would stay still. Occasionally, one light would fade away (into the clouds?) and another light would appear nearby. I watched these lights, which stayed generally in the same area of the sky during this time, until one by one they faded away and were no longer visible. I do not know if what I witnessed was planes or similar aircraft flying in some formation, or if these were truly UFO/UAP. It is important to note that during this event I did see several planes in the sky with their familiar blinking lights, however they, for the most part, moved uni-directionly and most planes would appear and disappear comparatively swiftly to the lights.
January 13, 2015 · 2:08 PM · UNKNOWN
Plymouth, MI
A very strange pair of much wider than normal white contrails falling east in a completely clear daylight sky. The trail dissipated quickly behind the craft. Whatever it was, it seemed to be creating a lot of drag. The first thought that came to our mind was a falling satellite of some kind. There was another white or gray jet with no contrail much lower heading southwest at the same time.
January 12, 2015 · 7:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Fairview, MI
I was going outside to start my vehicle, when I looked up at the stars. We live in a small town, and having no city lights does wonders for stargazing. I noticed a very bright, twinkling “star”. Both my husband and I have seen it before, so I watched it for a bit to make sure it was the same thing I had seen. Both times, I noticed it was moving in odd directions, up, down, diagonal, and sometimes a sort of circle. I also noticed it was not only white but flashed some blue and red, with possibly some green. I watched it for a long time to make sure I was seeing what I thought I was. I went in to tell my husband and we watched it together. My kids saw us staring at the sky and started watching and noticed the twinkling lights as well. It was visible for a few hours and I think the clouds dimmed it out and it just faded away. During that time, maybe half an hour before we lost visual contact, we saw what looked like a comet or fireball in the sky. For a split second I thought it was a shooting star, but when I thought about it, it was most definitely NOT a shooting star, way too close and very big, and the “twinkling star” was most definitely NOT a star because as far as I know, stars don’t move. I cannot tell the shape of the object because it’s a little too far away, but it doesn't move like any craft I am aware of. A possible sighting of "Sirius," we suspect?? PD
January 11, 2015 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Midland, MI
The lights then pulsed and reddened in color and disappeared.
January 7, 2015 · 7:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Grand Rapids, MI
I was taking my dog outside to go to the bathroom, and was watching the night sky. Seconds after I looked up, I saw this large craft hovering across the sky very quickly. It wobbled slightly, and had red and white lights. One of the red ones was large and had a sort of trapezoid shape. Within seconds, the craft traveled from the east side of the sky to the west, and lowered itself very quicky. Because there were homes and trees in the way, it vanished from my sight. Seconds later, a plane flew over. I do not know if the plane had anything thing to do with the ufo.
January 7, 2015 · 7:30 AM · LIGHT
Whitmore Lake, MI
I was walking to my bus stop, when a flash of light caught the corner of my eye. I suddenly looked over to see a bright light take a nose dive tword the lake that was near me. I did not see the object hit the lake becaues my vision was blocked by a house. My freind who was at the bus stop had a better view of it. He said before it hit the lake it took a sudden right angle turn and zoomed across the lake and over the tree line out of sight. It was going faster than any object I've ever seen and the kind of turn my friend described would kill some one with the g-force.
January 5, 2015 · 1:00 AM · FORMATION
Plymouth, MI
Was going to my office in Plymouth (I live in Western Plymouth) ... seen 3 HUGE orange/yellowish orbs in a triangle formation and a smaller orb down at the bottom of the formation. These floated over the North Church and across M14 freeway. Was trying to get my 4K camera Note 4 to operate .. just got it the previous day .. was shaking. I stopped on the bridge to do a photograph/4k Movie .. however, I didn't know how to operate the camera -- shaking too much. I was familiar with the iPhone 5 until I switched to the Note 4 for a brief period of time. All the orbs (round circular glowing lights like big balls -- no substance) vanished as they descended downward going from West to East. I fly drones, have flown single engine aircraft, have NEVER seen anything like this. I told my next door neighbor about this siting the next day. If I put my whole hand up that is what the size of 1 object would be in size.
December 29, 2014 · 3:00 PM · SPHERE
Niles, MI
While we were in her back yard with aour dogs after lunch, I spotted 2 cylinder-shaped UFO's traveling East toward Dowagiac, Michigan. As they went into a big cloud a group of 10-12 small spheres came out of another huge cloud. At first we thought they were birds but they were way to high up to be bird's. As they came closer we realized they weren't birds they didn't have any wings. They were silver and sphere shaped moving in formation going northwest. We watched them for about 15 min until they were to far away to see them clearly. My mom had never seen anything like that in her life and would be watching the sky from now on. I wish I would've had my camera with me. Hopefully someone got a picture of them.
December 28, 2014 · 9:31 PM · LIGHT
Coldwater, MI
My mother was laying on the couch, she looked out the window, and noticed a red light moving across the sky. She got up and went over for a better look, then called me over to the door to look. Then another one appeared, and another one. They all followed after eavh other, moving quickly. Eventually we counted 6, and then we didn't see anymore. But there could have been more that we didn't see before she noticed the first light. Our nieghbors also notice dthe lights, and came outside.
December 28, 2014 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Westland, MI
The lights I seen where a ray of colors. Looking out my window looking south sky. To give a area I was by the Westland Mall. It stayed in that area and did not move for 3+ hours clear sky. Planes had not been in the area in truth it seemed air craft where not heading in the area toward Metro Airport. I was in my house watching a movie and for the whole movie which is 3 + hours long. IT was there. I could not stay awake anymore and went to bed hoping to hear reports when a day or two past of no report I had to report. Possible sighting of a "twinkling" star, maybe Sirius. PD
December 25, 2014 · 12:00 AM · FIREBALL
East Grand Rapids, MI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 18, 2014 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Bellaire, MI
Clear cold night, visibility and ceiling unlimited. Large, bright object to east of Bellaire MI, stationary in sky, approximately 10 degrees off the horizon. Object appears to have multiple flashing lights, white, green, blue and occasionally red. Experienced observers opinion that these lights are not consistent with aircraft navigation lights or a hovering helicopter. Same light set has been seen on 2 or 3 occasions in different parts of the sky, mostly to north of Bellaire, again by multiple witnesses. One aircraft was visible in the sky during this sighting. Sighting of Sirius. PD
December 12, 2014 · 1:16 AM · DIAMOND
Kalamazoo, MI
Noticed the moon as a large orange shape and color at 10:47 pm on December 11, 2014, and then noticed the moon was normal looking at 1:16 am on December 12, 2014, so took a picture and have a visible ufo shaped as a gold diamond flying up towards the moon.
December 10, 2014 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Westland, MI
first seen object coming from the west. it had a strange glow to it. It was moving slow at first, then speeded up. Then it hovered for a moment. Then it took off at a very high rate of speed and was gone in an instant, like a blink of an eye… Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 6, 2014 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Rochester, MI
Well, driving home on Rochester road there was this space craft seemed to be sort of filling us.. Now, where I live there is light pollution so you can't see shooting stars and anything like that. All of a sudden this bolt of i don't even know, what looked liked a shooting star hit the craft. We pull into a church parking lot, the craft is literally so low, we could see it, it was still just like we were, had a greenish almost blue glow. We start driving again, the craft does this weird turn but ever so smoothly and heads the direction we are in. My friend screams out the car windown nothing happened, we turn down this dirt road and all of a sudden boom it's gone.. But the most scariest interesting part of this whole entire thing, earlier that night at my friends house this sound I could not explained occurred, and lights flickered, and all of a sudden her basement door was open. Then animals in the house became terrified. I felt this weird feeling in my body, I wasn't afraid I was expecting them, but something was in her house. We called the police thinking maybe were crazy and someone waist had broken in, the police found no evidence, all if the cabinets were open, all of her art supplies were open in the cabinets, the bar downstairs fridge open. Then the sound stopped right when the police came. Twenty minutes after they left we got in the car, drove around.. And saw what we had seen…
December 3, 2014 · 1:00 PM · CYLINDER
Canton, MI
I went to look and it was a flying cylinder shaped object. It was dark, so I couldn't really see how it looked like. It had lights that were blinking, like plane lights and it could not be a plane, even though I live near an airport. If it was, I would have been able to hear a loud thundering noise flying over my house. It was at least 2 yards high above the roof of a house. It flew past 2 houses near mine and then swerved to front part of my house. I went to see it from my foyer window. It was small from a far distance. It flew across the window view and headed for the woods clearing nearby. After that, I couldn't see where it went. My cousin who was driving in the neighborhood on the way to my house and hour and a half earlier said that she saw it come from the neighborhood across the street and come to my neighborhood. It went behind some houses then swerved towards the direction of her car and then turned back and flew somewhere else. My guess is that it probably has something to do with the government like calculating census or there looking for someone. I do not believe that it is a UFO from outer space. Witness provides no contact information. We cannot confirm that this is a serious report. PD
November 30, 2014 · 6:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Waterford, MI
Stopped at the traffic light on Voorheis Rd., crossing m59 going south I seen a object shaped like a triangle. It was black with no lights flying very low aprox 100 feet above the homes. it was at a fast rate going east to west. At first, it was very thin, then it looked as if it banked hard to go south. That's when I seen its full size and triangle shape. It was headed south west after it banked. I lost sight after it banked cause of trees. It was so low, I kept watching the area for a sign of crash or smoke. I've never seen anything this low, fast, and strange before. The craft seemed to be about 50 feet wide, and made no sound at all.
November 28, 2014 · 11:40 PM · FIREBALL
Farmington Hills, MI
I was a passenger in my friend's car and we were driving down Shiawassee between Middle belt Rd. and Inkster Rd. I saw an orange fireball in the sky on my left hand side and then it shot down fast behind a cloud. It happened so fast. I tried to get my friends attention, but it was gone by the time he looked up. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 28, 2014 · 6:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Marysville, MI
At that point, the leftmost light moved in a straight line away from the other two lights heading toward the southeast. Definitely NOT typical star behavior!
November 24, 2014 · 11:17 PM · TRIANGLE
Auburn Hills, MI
I kept driving and it didn’t move, I made the split second decision to turn around and see if it was still there because I kept telling myself it was something more. Literally, maybe 1/4 mile or less and this object was way past Lapeer Rd. so far that I had to turn around because there was no way I was going to catch up to this thing (I was going 60mph) and instead of this being so distinctive, it was getting further and further away at a speed that is unrelatable. Ironically, tonight there are 50mph winds, this was definitely no helicopter and definitely not a plane because this thing was low, I mean the same height as a cell tower. When I first saw it, it just stayed in one place and by the time I had turned around it was so far in front of me it couldn’t have been a plane because the distanced this thing traveled in a short amount of time maybe 30-45 seconds its impossible and extremely unexplainable. The picture of this thing is burned into my skull.
November 22, 2014 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Detroit, MI
I then looked around to see if anyone else had witnessed what we was seeing, people in the barbershop was looking, people that was coming out the grocery store was looking and some traffic had stopped and was looking, I turned back and looked at the objects and called my wife on her cell phone but I kept going to voicemail so I called my daughter and ask where was her mother and to go get her and look out the back window and look at all these UFOs in the sky, she woke up my wife and told her, all I can hear was my wife saying oh s***, what is going on an invasion, now all 15 or 20 of them were in a pyramid formation, I noticed that the last two on the left was coming down and stopped and went back up, they then lined up in a straight line never making a sound, they was changing colors red,orange, yellow and getting brighter they hovered a little more and then slowly moving towards northeast very slow still not making a sound I then started driving home but still looking at them, when I pulled in my driveway and could still see the last two of them and I noticed the last one was getting so bright it looked like it had a ring around the bottom that really kept getting brighter like it was drawing energy from something, it looked like a donut shape or Saturn ring, I went in the house and talked to my wife and daughter and said I'm about to follow them but when I went back outside I didn't see them anymore,I drove in the direction that they were going still didn't see them, and then rain just started pouring down instantly, I drove back home and called fox 2 news to report the objects and the news said that they had several calls about that and was waiting on video footage
November 22, 2014 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Detroit, MI
Witness provides no information about the event. PD
November 21, 2014 · 5:10 PM · LIGHT
Farmington Hills, MI
We suspect that the witness may have observed contrails behind high-altitude aircraft. PD