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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
November 20, 2014 · 9:20 PM · FORMATION
Grand Blanc, MI
While outside on my deck facing east, I happen to notice two white lights, not blinking, in a staggered formation close to each other for about a minute, until my sight was blocked by roof lines at approx. 8:20 pm. I couldn't tell if there was 2 objects or just one with two lights. It seems it was one object since the lights moved together perfectly. The location was parallel to Fenton Rd. heading south, near Grand Blanc Rd in Mundy Twp., Grand Blanc. At first, I thought it was an airplane, since there are many planes near by due to Bishop Airport about 10 miles away. So, as I am watching this formation it was lower than usual than an airplane would fly in the area, also there wasn't any sound usually associated with an engine. The lights seemed to float. When looking at the lights i noticed that at higher elevations, there was an airplane to the north and two more at higher elevation to the south with blinking red and white lights. What i saw was completely different, it kind of stunned me, left me thinking, what did i just witness? I'll be thinking of this for a long time.
November 17, 2014 · 11:46 AM · FIREBALL
Detroit, MI
Me and my freind saw a large green fireball decend from the sky above detroit. It was much larger than any meteorite I have ever seen. Scared the hell out of me, this thing fell right into the city from what we could see.. Never seen anything lime it before..
November 10, 2014 · 5:47 AM · UNKNOWN
Durand, MI
It was moving twice the speed of an airplane and even though we have an airport nearby, this appeared to be less than 200 feet in the air. I thought it was heading towards the ground, I did not hear anything.
November 8, 2014 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Waterford Twp, MI
3 orange spheres were floating parallel to one another. They were blinking (Getting really bright, then dim) The brightest Sphere on my left (I was facing south) started to slowly drift off from the other two. After 2 minutes or less the middle sphere followed. The final Sphere didn't move for another 3 minutes until I noticed on the video I was taking, 3 obvious "human" airplanes closing in on the final Sphere where it then dimmed out. As if it cloaked.
November 5, 2014 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Antrim Township, MI
I noticed two very bright yellow lights slowly approaching from the Southwest at a low altitude. I decided to stand on the porch and continue watching and as it was almost above my house it slowly turned towards the east. When it was almost over my house I could see four more solid yellow lights along the back end of it so was able to make out a distinct triangle shape. Since I live in a busy flight path I was trying to find any sort of sign it was a normal aircraft such as other flashing lights yet I didn't see any. I could hear an engine which sounded similar to a diesel engine on a freight train locomotive.
November 5, 2014 · 8:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Dearborn, MI
I went out to walk my dog, and noticed strange lights in the sky - they appeared to be 3-4 solid red lights with green flashing lights on the side or forward of the red lights. I stopped to observe, it looked like it was hovering around my neighborhood (I could hear a slight "whirring" sound. It was a bit lower than a helicopter would fly and moved quite fast. It started moving towards the west, hovered there, then came back east, above me, and continued. I shined my flashlight towards it, but obviously it was too far above me to have any reach. I could see airplanes traveling much higher (I am near a flight path). It is not possible that this was a persons drone. The range it traveled was too far, and it was very dark outside. I am an Engineer. I have asked others in my neighborhood if they saw anything, but so far haven't found anyone that also saw it.
November 1, 2014 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Onaway, MI
I stepped out our back door,which faces due east,and immediately noticed a bright "star" where I know one isn't! For your reference,look up at Cassiopeia,extend your arms,and bend your wrists in so you can put four fingers on top of the other ones. About 8 fingers down from the bottom star of Cassiopeia and a little to the right, is a dim but noticeable star. There's a dimmer one close and to the right of that one. Just to the left of those stars, was a bright, not white but towards amber, light. It was brighter than a magnitude O star, which is why I noticed it as soon as I stepped out the door! It wasn't moving at all. I was torn between running in the house and grabbing my binoculars and staying put! I'm glad I stayed because at about 30 or 40 seconds, it just got dimmer till it was gone. It appeared to go directly "away" from my vantage point. No left to right deviation what so ever.
October 29, 2014 · 7:59 PM · SPHERE
Auburn Hills, MI
Witnessed in the Eastern sky 7 bright red spheres in a configuration similar to the Chrysler Corporation corporate emblem. Balls or spheres were intense with a dark red color and were seen for approximately 5 seconds before "winking out". Two aircraft were observed at low altitude(500-1000 feet) flying from North to South during the observation.
October 23, 2014 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Onaway, MI
Stepping onto my southerly facing deck, as always,I looked up at the stars. I looked to the west and noticed a bright single light heading my way. It was as bright as the space station. The color wasn't as white as the I.S.S. More towards amber. I've seen the space station many times,and I knew this wasn't it. It wasn't blinking, just constant. Earlier my buddy called to say he was looking at the eclipse. I wasn't prepared so I didn't see it. Anyway, I ran in the house and called him, and told him to go outside quick, as something was heading our way from the west. (He lives about 1/4 mile away). We both stayed on the phone and he said he saw it right away. There were no navigation lights, or sound, so we ruled out a jet or plane. It was heading just slightly southeast. If you pointed your left finger straight up at twelve o'clock high, and your right finger, two feet straight to the south, that is about the degrees in the sky the thing was, when, it abruptly vanished!! I don't know if it turned "right," from our vantage point, or just turned off the lights! It didn't zip away in the direction it was heading, it just wasn't there. It was a crystal clear night, so no clouds to go behind. We both were left wondering what we just witnessed. It was 8:30 or so. I'm wondering if we were the only two people in America who saw this! It appeared to be quite high, But hard to judge not knowing size. Incidentally, on April 19th, 2014, my wife, nephew and niece, witnessed almost the exact same "light", right from the same viewing spot, our deck. Everything almost identical, except the time. That one was at approximately 10:30 or so. My wife said, "Look!, here comes the space station! I said, no it's not!!
October 22, 2014 · 9:00 PM · CYLINDER
Howell, MI
I was upstairs, my house has no lights on, other than 40 watt bulb at the front door and very little lighting on inside, my barn in 110 feet away from the house, no lights on, outside is dark, one neighbor only in area, walked up stairs and saw a bright blue light at the far front corner of the barn, about 130 feet from my position at the window, went into a bedroom, closer to barn, opened the window, with binoculars, watched object for 20 minutes, before blinked out, long tubular body about 3 feet in length, 2 to 3 inches dia., very bright deep blue body with three round tubular circles in the center, about 3 to 4 inches on center, hovering about a foot off the ground, no sound, the tube was surrounded by a very bright softer blue light in all directions and reflecting off the ground, it was just outside a lot of brush, it blinked out as I made some minor noise, went out with flashlight and investigated and found a baby evergreen tree with the tips of its branches, the needles where spiraling in a circle, otherwise all looked normal, walked back to house, went back up stairs, half an hour later, same area where the tube was, of which was not there, but in the same spot, the area and the side of the barn where very bright with two rectangles floating above the ground, approx. 2 feet wide by 5 feet high, could see thru them, emitting bright red hues and yellow, blinked out after I observed for 3 min.
October 19, 2014 · 12:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Sterling Heights, MI
Flying at a pretty good speed in a straight line. Nothing I have ever seen before. I believe it is a sign! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 19, 2014 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Zeeland, MI
I'm hoping to see others who saw this also. Very large triangular shaped object with big bright lights. Lights were white with red in center. Saw on the 19th at 10:05 pm moving North to south very very slow. No sound. Lights did not flash. It goes on a slant up and down and below the tree line at times out of sight. Then 20 seconds later appears going up so very slow in the same spot it went down. Our city is about 1&1/2 miles in diameter and I saw it cross and it took 50 minutes. What the heck? I saw it again the next Wednesday, Oct. 22/2014 at 8:05. It went from West to East. Everything identical. I saw it again on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014 at 8:05. West to East again. Everything same as first 2 times except this time the neighbors dogs were barking non stop and the neighbors car alarm went off. Getting creeped out. Not sure I'm liking this any more.
October 16, 2014 · 7:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Beverly Hills, MI
Today, Thursday, October 16, 2014, at roughly 7:30 AM, I saw three very bright lights, in the shape of a pair of headlights and a light on top. There seemed to be nothing holding them together. They were moving at what seemed to be a little faster than a passenger jet. The back headlight was going first, then they lined up, and the front headlight continued first after that. That suggested that I saw the front and the back of the craft. Soon after, I saw a passenger jet going in the same direction. I am a 13 year old male that was waiting for the school bus.
October 16, 2014 · 7:00 AM · CIRCLE
Romulus, MI
Watching my son football practice I noticed all the kids pointing up in the air, so I looked up and saw a helicopter. It was just sitting there over the field. I took my phone out to try and get a closer look of the helicopter and saw something I just could not explain. As I video this on my phone no matter what I saw on my phone I could not see with my naked eye. It was very strange. I found out the next day that where I had filmed the UFO, which was toward metro airport I found out that the helicopter was there because Hillary Clinton was at the airport.
October 10, 2014 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Kalamazoo, MI
Two of us saw what appeared to be a hovering fireball or object round in shape, that was seen in the southern sky south of Kalamazoo, MI. It hovered low in the horizon and did appear to be moving only slightly. It wasn't perfectly still but you could tell it was slightly moving. I used the term fireball but it could have been a mass of lights, orange/red in color appearing at a distance as a fireball. I tried to take a pic but it was too far away. It wasn't a Chinese lantern, but based on the distance and how big it still appeared, it had to have been huge. I checked Flightradar(iOS app) and there were no flights at all in the area. After hovering for about 15 mins approx 9:30pm it was gone. I did check the internet for similar sightings and there have been sightings like this in this area.
October 10, 2014 · 8:15 PM · CIGAR
Oxford, MI
Five orange lights were seen rising in the western sky. The lights rose very quickly with individual ones disappearing periodically possibly due to cloud cover. Two of the lights moved quickly in a southerly direction. Then suddenly, the lights were gone. The entire visualization lasted about 10 minutes. I was able to get one photo using a 10 megapixel Nikon camera. I zoomed in on two images in the photo and will send the it. One object appears to be a red orb and the other a white cigar shape. Another image showed a red and white cigar shaped object.
October 8, 2014 · 11:43 PM · LIGHT
Grand Blanc, MI
The wife and I just laid down in bed and i had my eyes closed, but we were talking, when suddenly my wife said "OMG, what is that light" i opened my eyes and just just caught a glimpse of a light pulse from the monitor. We have a high end HD surveillance system and a monitor next to our bed. We both got up and were watching the monitor and talking about what just happened when about 4-5 minutes went by and a bright light pulsed again and lit up the screen. My wife and i were freaked out by it since our house backs up to trees. I grabbed a flash light and went outside and i started shining my flash light on the video camera to see what it looked like versus what we saw. It wasnt even close! The angles were different as well since i was on the ground and the light that flashed on our screen was from an angle higher than our house. We played back the event about a dozen times and saw a bright light (round) in the top part of the screen. What is even more intere! sting is that you can see the back yard light up just before it comes into the screen (both times). It was also bright enough to look like a repeated flash on the screen (very bright)...it looked like it moved very fast but seemed to go in a circular motion (quickly)..at first i thought someone might have shined a flashlight on the video camera but i ruled that out by testing that theory...my flashlight is very bright and could not duplicate the intesity, pulsing, motion or brightness...weird :-)
October 8, 2014 · 9:09 PM · LIGHT
Detroit, MI
Lights changed direction several times east, west north and south then departed eastward after maintaining the same position for approx 10 min.
October 8, 2014 · 8:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Taylor, MI
Green and red flashing object flying thru the sky it was blinking in a pattern it went green, red , white down a straight line repeatedly. It did not flash like an airplane. It was very high in the sky so I could not see the shape but it seemed to be more circular due to way the lights were going. It did not seem to be flying either. It was more like soaring .. I've been around long enough to know what planes look like and how the fly and this was NOT no plane or helicopter or anything. I was driving so I had trouble keeping an eye on it but I was trying to watch it as long as possible. I kept an eye on it about every 10 seconds and the last time I looked was completely gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 6, 2014 · 8:10 PM · SPHERE
Temperance, MI
I have been a firefighter/paramedic for 15 years. While I was on duty this evening I was in the apparatus bay washing the ambulance when I heard a dog barking, which seemed out of place as I have never heard a dog in this particular area before. At about that same time, the radio station I was listening to went from clearly audible music to static, the digital radios in the ambulance started to "bonk" no signal, and I felt an eerie presence. I stepped around the front of the ambulance and out the overhead door where I saw a large, orange orb type object streaking from a south-southwest direction to the north-northeast at a very high rate of speed. There were no sounds as the object passed and no visible landing or navigation type lights. There were also no other aircraft visible in the area at the time. As this area is very close to both Detroit Metropolitan Airport and Toledo Express, air traffic is very common place and the sounds of various aircraft extremely familiar. As soon as the object was out of sight, the dog stopped barking, the digital ambulance radio returned to normal operation as did the music station I was listening to.
October 3, 2014 · 11:55 PM · UNKNOWN
Detroit, MI
At 6 mile and telegraph. At approx 11:55 tonight, myself and another witness heard an extremely loud roar pass over the area. I was sitting under an open window, and this clearly came from the sky. We are in a direct path for Detroit Metroit Airport. At first, i thought it was a jet coming in. But the rate of which the sound approached and dissipated was far too fast for a commercial jet. Not to mention so loud, it would have been at a much lower altitude. Ive witnessed large meteorites witnessed over multiple states. I've also witnessed jets breaking the sound barrier. This did not sound like that at all. No impact, shockwave or sonic boom was heard. The third witness, approximately 1.5 miles west, and outside during this event, heard it, but did not notice any lights either. Strangely, this past winter, we heard what sounded like pulse jets on occasion. Usually at night, once during the day. Think Nazi V1 buzz bombs. Internet searches yielded no results pertaining to aircraft making such noises in cold dense air. Somethings definitely going on over Southeast Michigan the passed few months.
October 1, 2014 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Ann Arbor, MI
This event occurred on a cloudy night in Ann Arbor on South 7th Street, close to the intersection of Princeton Avenue. Walking home from work sometime approximately during fall of 2014, while talking on the phone, I looked up and noticed a large white blinking light, very nearly directly overhead, slightly towards the northwest. I am not certain of the altitude of the light, but it could not have been more than a few hundred feet in the air, based on my perception of it being close, and since the cloud cover was relatively low (I could see no planes, stars, etc., and the clouds seemed to pass around the light occasionally). As I watched the light it did not appear to move, but remained in one place. The light was a bright white/yellow and pulsated from completely bright to completely dark about once a second. I watched the light for about 2 minutes and relayed the strangeness of it to the person on the phone. After about 2-3 minutes of spectating, the light either turned off or was engulfed by the clouds. I did not identify any sound coming from the light. I waited another 5 minutes before leaving the area and did not see anything more.
September 27, 2014 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Dearborn, MI
I saw other commercial aircraft in the distance and this red orb was faster than the commercial planes. It did not change its flight pattern. To my observation it looked like it had a escort.
September 25, 2014 · 2:30 PM · OTHER
Saint Josephs, MI
My sister was in her kitchen when something shook her very large home. When she made it outside,the neighbors were already outside pointing at a huge tank shaped object hovering above the water. It rapidly took off at the blink of an eye. They called authorities to report the incident. The next day, it was reported in the news as a hoax. It was not possible as the neighborhood knows what they saw.