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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
September 23, 2014 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Taylor, MI
Possible "twinkling" star? PD
September 22, 2014 · 9:15 PM · CIRCLE
Novi, MI
Fast moving bright white object flying from N.E. to S.W. Altitude around 20-40k, Speed apx 2000-5ooo mph. No tail, just round in shape, Size hard to say, x2 of a passenger jet flying if at 20,000ft. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 18, 2014 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Attica, MI
Watched red orb go dim and brighten over the course of 5 mins staying stationary. Started to move west to east while still bright, speeding up as it traveled. Stopped and started moving in a circle motion while picking up speed and growing brighter. Finally darted off to the South the streaked off to the north out of sight.
September 17, 2014 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Van Buren Twp, MI
Flight of two bright orange lights flew slowly at low altitude from north to south, then ascended out of sight. Then another one that did the same thing. Then a fourth one did the same thing. Could not see the objects - just lights. I have been a pilot for 40 yrs, and have also been an air traffic controller. The lights were not white like airplane landing lights. They were the color of fire. A few minutes after seeing them, I shut off my car engine and the headlights would not turn off. Also that evening my TV sound worked but the picture tube failed. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 15, 2014 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Niles, MI
Soon after my birthday, my mom and her friend went to Mexico, leaving me home for a week by myself. as I often have knee troubles I decided to soak in our hottub outside. my girlfriend walked inside to get us something to drink and my cigarettes, and I leaned back and say a steady light. at first I thought it was a plane since it had a light on it, but then I noticed it wasn't blinking. I watched it go from almost directly overhead to about a 65 degree angle at low speeds. (assuming 90degrees is straight up.). However the oddest part was the accompaniment of a aircraft that had a blinking light that caught up to it. as the second aircraft caught up, on this clear night I watched the solid light object go from 60degrees to around 45 degrees at a much higher speed than the blinking light could. it left it behind and they never caught back up to eachother. my only problem is I didn't know till recently that only military aircraft in a wartime zone could change their lights to off or not blinking otherwise it was mandatory to have signal lights. the light was a solid white orb. not very big, but was about 2x the size of the blinking aircrafts lights. I couldn't tell if the object made a sound or not seeing how the other aircraft did. but I know it didn't change color didn't blink just kept moving slowly then quickly.
September 8, 2014 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Adrian, MI
Black line starting from right side of moon with a tail hanging from the bottom. Line moved from right to left and tail faded away as line moved. Anybody see something similar? Witness provides no contact information. PD
September 7, 2014 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
White Lake, MI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 7, 2014 · 3:00 PM · CYLINDER
Shelby Township, MI
Has any one else seen something like this just light and 30 seconds later nothing?
September 7, 2014 · 11:00 AM · SPHERE
Chelsea, MI
27 year old daughter saw what appeared to be 3 very close objects emitting short thick plumes behind them. Pulled vehicle over so I could look but the object(s) were heading away to the east toward Detroit. First impression was a asteroid, but when my daughter and her boyfriend put their binocs on them they thought they looked like 3 orbs. Could not tell if they were joined or not. Could distinctly see 3 plumes. Military bomber perhaps? Never saw plane like that before if it was. It kept flying at altitude at a steady rate of speed. Hopefully more people noticed it. Weather was clear and sunny.
September 6, 2014 · 9:49 PM · CIRCLE
Troy, MI
Observed three red objects moving quickly from west to east, then veering southeast. First object passed the position of the moon and turned, the next two objects turned before. The objects appeared in the sky 60 to 90 seconds apart. The objects were traveling across the sky roughly 5x faster than commercial aircraft. All three were identical in shape - they were first seen as very bright red, and as they crossed they dimmed, completely the opposite of the light from a jet airplane flame. The objects were observed by three people - a 4y/o grandchild, her 28 y/o mother and a 52 y/o father, both older people with college educations. We walked out and immediately observed the first light - there may have been more.
September 3, 2014 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Clinton Township, MI
I live on the 7th floor of an apartment house with a balcony on the west side of the building. I watch the sunsets nightly, weather permitting. This particular night, the sunset filled the western sky with a brilliant orange, fading to the color of a blood orange. All of a sudden, I noticed what looked like a fluorescent light tube in the sky,in front of the sunset. It was perfectly vertical, appeared to be emitting it's own light and not moving, although the sunset was sinking below the horizon behind this tube. The tube remained illuminated in a white light. It remained stationary until the sunset was gone and at that point it began to fade until I could no longer see it. To get an idea of the size of the tube, I held my arm out at full length and it was the size of my little finger at arms length.
September 3, 2014 · 10:45 AM · EGG
Woodhaven, MI
A red orb appeared in sky over wooded area while I was on a Hilo. When I stopped to take a better look, I pointed out orb to two other workers nearby. One thought it may have been a drone, but as I started to go inside to grab binoculars, it took off so fast the two other witnesses said it was like a blur. As it sat in the sky motionless it did appear to spin slowly, it was obvious because the sun was directly reflecting off the object. No lights on it at all, was just a very shiny, metallic, wine colored egg. No sound and no other objects were in the area. No wildlife near object at all. this is all i seen.
August 31, 2014 · 11:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Eastport, MI
A buddy and I were enjoying a quiet, clear evening on a west facing deck overlooking the east arm of Grand Traverse Bay in the northern lower peninsula of Michigan. The moon was less than half full and becoming orange as it was settling down on the horizon mostly west but slightly southwest of our position. The sky overhead was full of stars and the wind was almost calm though slight, variable breezes would occur. The waves in the bay were moving from north to south. You could hear a truck off in the distance for several miles and several minutes until it faded away. We were waiting for it to disappear so that we could witness complete silence with exception to waves and crickets. At approximately 23:15, I noticed a red light above the bay coming from south to north (left to right). It was common for aircraft to fly along the bay but most often it would be a coastguard helicopter or a care flight air ambulance going from Traverse City to Charlevoix or Petoskey at that time of night. The coast guard helicopter is red and I thought since the light was red it was probably them but I continued to observe expecting to hear the typical sound made by copters and to see a blinking light. I estimated the craft to be 4 miles south of us and pointed it out to my friend. When it had traveled another several seconds, I recalled thinking it was traveling the speed I expected a helicopter to move. Its course was level and unchanging. When it was about a mile south, I said that it was odd we couldn’t hear it since it was so quiet outside. This made me think maybe it was a small plane of some type since they are sometimes less noisy. I continued to monitor its unchanging flight and at the point it passed the directly in front of our location I asked my friend, “What is that? There’s no strobe light and no sound.” He didn’t have an answer and neither did I. At this point, I estimated the object to be about 300 feet above the bay and maybe 5-7 mil! es out ... which is to say ½ of the way to the Leelanua Peninsula or right down the middle of the bay. The object never seemed to be definable with regard to shape though it was rounder than any other shape since it was just a fairly bright red light and I guess at that distance it seemed rounded. As I write this recollection it occurs to me that the object may have been a bit closer, since I really couldn’t determine its size and I had no sound to use as a guide. Nonetheless, the object continued its heading and maintained the same altitude on its northerly flight. I changed my position on the deck in order to continue my observation until trees obstructed my view.
August 31, 2014 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
Montrose, MI
9:45 pm. Sitting on front porch with several family members. Orange, bright pulsating orb above tree line moving from south to north. Guessing it to be 2 miles away from me and guessing 100 feet up in the air. Going in straight line fast, then slowed to a hover, went on a few more seconds, brightness diminished, then vanished.
August 31, 2014 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Saline, MI
Driving westbound on Michigan Ave from Saline there were fireworks going off 15 minutes prior. Then when reaching Saline And Clinton border, I see 3 amber colored circles in a triangle pattern. There were not red or flashing similar to airplane lights, but more of a glimmer. The three amber/orange shapes were in a triangle pattern for several minutes and then formed a straight vertical line. I was pulled over watching at this point. They stood in a vertical line for a minute or so and then phased out one by one. We have corrected the date above, to reflect a sighting in 2014. PD
August 29, 2014 · 9:15 PM · CROSS
Troy, MI
At 9:15 I noticed an unusual light, apparently at very low altitude (my guess is between 500 and 2000 ft.). It appeared to be red, almost flame-like, moving very slowly from south to north. As it moved it seemed to slow to a hover, as it was almost overhead, then resume its leisurely motion. After it passed overhead, it slowly began to curve to the northwest. All of this took 1-2 min. and the object kept the same appearance. Then, maybe 30 seconds later, the whole spectacle repeated itself. A second slow moving red light followed the same path as the first one. By the way, the original light was still visible, still heading very slowly to the northwest. I do not recall if this second light did any hovering as it came overhead. It did the same turn to the northwest as did the first object. Then to conclude the event, about 30 sec. after the second light made its northwest turn, a third light identical to the first two came again from the south, following the same path and speed as the first two. This one, like the first light, appeared to slow and hover for a few seconds as it came overhead. Then it resumed its slow pace, turning to the northwest as the others had. Their speed was so slow that I could clearly see all three heading single file to the northwest. The sky was clear and dark with no moon, but several stars were visible to the west.
August 24, 2014 · 1:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Grand Haven, MI
Encounter: I was observing the night sky from my driveway and I saw a Triangular looking Object in the sky with “Round Amber/Yellow Lights” that formed a Triangle. I was using binoculars to get a closer view of the object as it was far off in the distance. Howeve,r I first spotted it just with my naked eyes. There were 3 amber lights that were constantly lit on the object, which defined its shape with 1 smaller red light in the center. This object seemed to be traveling at an uninterrupted, slow, smooth speed. This Object seemed to be rather large in size and larger than most Aircraft I’ve observed. I observed this Object lit with Amber lights until it disappeared out of sight.
August 24, 2014 · 12:48 AM · UNKNOWN
Grand Rapids, MI
The sighting of the lights occurred at 12.48am Sunday morning. I can't seen to get my computer to accept military time notation.
August 23, 2014 · 10:43 PM · SPHERE
Coldwater, MI
At approx. 2243 hours, while driving north on Division Street about 1 mile south of the town of Coldwater, Michigan, my husband and I saw two bright balls of light. It was dark out but both the lights were quite brillant and very noticable. Both were reddish in color and maybe a couple to several hundred feet up in the air moving in tandem across the sky at about the same altitude and speed and at about the same distance apart. There was no noticable sound, and it was moving to fast to be a set of hot air ballons and too slowly for an airplane either assending or desending. We could not see wings in the dark showing any type of aircraft. We could not see any fuselage that was attached to the either of the lights. And, we don't think it was a helicopter, as we've never seen lights on any aircraft that resembled what we saw. The lights appeared too far apart to be lights on a big plane. They were just moving across the sky at about the same spee! d together. We pulled over to the shoulder of the road to watch the two tandem lights moving across the skyline, and a few seconds later, there was another sphere of bright light several hundred feet up moving from the east to the west after the other ones. This ball of light, was even bigger than the first two, but was alone and at about the same altitude as the first two spheres. The third light was also reddish/orange in color very noticeable and not like anything we'd ever seen quite extraordinary and unique. It moved in the same direction about 10-15 seconds after the first two that were seen in tandem together. We continued to watch as all three light spheres drifted and moved west out of our view of site. This only lasted about 60-90 seconds total. The strangest thing was there was no sound to hear, as we rolled down our windows and listened for the sound of some kind of engine roar.
August 23, 2014 · 10:15 PM · FORMATION
South Lyon, MI
4 orange/red lights which seemed to move in straight line formation. Moving west. They made no sound. One light was further ahead, followed by 3 more in line. I recorded the formation with my phone. Never seen anything like this!
August 23, 2014 · 2:30 PM · FORMATION
Lincoln Park, MI
lights made swift u-turn going up at 45 degree angle til out of sight.
August 23, 2014 · 10:00 AM · FIREBALL
Kentwood, MI
Sitting in my garage listening to the Tiger's game, looking toward the South West, I saw a streak going across the sky from South East toward North West. It's direction was toward the Earth at about 20 degrees. The streak was blue, green and red, orange. I waited for a sonic boom, there was none. If it was a firework, I would think it would have made an noise. If it was a meterorite, it may have been miles or states away. Just wanted to report this in case someone else saw it. Thanks, Me
August 21, 2014 · 10:10 PM · TRIANGLE
St. Charles, MI
Three bright orange lights arranged in a triangle, tip on top and two lights along the bottom, relatively low on the horizon, moving south to north, appearing to hover at some points. Object was distant so only three lights were readily visible, however some light was evident behind the three main lights. Object appeared to turn south, dim and then instantaneously vanish. Cloud cover was medium, and did not seem to be the cause of the disappearance.
August 20, 2014 · 11:30 PM · FIREBALL
Traverse City, MI
While on vacation on spider lake in Traverse City, MI, my fiancé (police corporal) and I saw an orange pulsating light in the sky (extreme cloud cover) accompanied by sound, it didn't seem to move then got closer and turned around and disappeared. A few minutes later it returned and had no sound then disappeared again.