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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
August 20, 2014 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Detroit, MI
Lighting fast going up down left right and crossing paths. This has been happening for 20 minutes. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 20, 2014 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Mount Pleasant, MI
I was at my friend's house. We usually go out to the casino or out downtown, but we both decided to stay in. My friend and I were hanging out, when she remembered that she had leftover fireworks. We went outside to set them off. Some sparklers, some snakes, and some helicopter fireworks that go shooting up a little over 6 feet. We did the snakes and sparklers, ending with the helicoptors. The first one had went up on the roof, so we waited for it to fall back down. We lit off a few more and watched where each one went to make sure it didn't get stuck somewhere. We got down to the last helicopter, and after it had fallen, we both turned away from the house and for some reason, we looked up. We froze there for what felt like 10 minutes. There was a light that was bobbing up and down, slowly moving in the sky. The bobbing motion was not too slow, but it wasn't very speedy. The bobbing lasted for a couple seconds until I asked my friend if she was seeing it, too. She said she saw it, and all of a sudden it shot right off. We tried to follow it, but it just kind of disappeared into the darkness of the night. I felt a very heavy feeling, and we both started freaking out and went back inside. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 18, 2014 · 9:40 PM · OVAL
Waterford, MI
This was not the ISS, as far as my knowledge goes, as the station was supposed to pass over my area at around 23:30, two hours after I saw the UFO. Object moved with a mild "wobble" to its path, like it was zigzagging slightly. This could have been an optical illusion, but the object itself was very much so real. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 15, 2014 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Westland, MI
From the south going east, looked red at first, then a bright light were slow, spaced apart, i do have it on my sony handycam, so i have it on film.
August 14, 2014 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Grand Rapids, MI
At 19:30 to 20:00, my partner and I went outdoors to smoke. After the session, at about 20:00, we began to marvel at the stars' beauty that night, and lay back on the driveway to enjoy the night sky. Near Orion's belt, for no more than a second, we both see a flash of white/blue light similar to a camera flash. We observe for 10 more minutes as to find any more, and see 2 yellow/orange lights (non blinking) accompanied by a red light at the center. At first we believe it to be a plane, but can not confirm due to a lack of noise and the apparent low altitude. After this we go inside. No pictures were taken due to the quickness of the event.
August 13, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
St. Johns, MI
around august 13 i had seen what i would describe as a formation in the sky. it was flying south east to north west, on a path that i almost every day see military helicoptors and even A-10 fighters fly. The formation made almost no sound. on the left-hand side (as i looked up) i counted around 13 lights. flying right next to that craft to my right hand side was what appeared to be a regular run of the mill airplane. I watched them fly directly over head and i was very shocked that i had not heard anyone else talk about it. It must have been around 2100 hours because it was dark... the craft were flying rather low, i couldn't even really estimate a 'normal' height for a commercial airplane. I got the impression that the craft was being escorted and that maybe it was air force 1. As stated above i often see military craft fly that same route back and forth daily, but I know of no airbase in the direction they fly that is in America. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 13, 2014 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Lexington, MI
The anomaly I witnessed tonight was strange and erie, yet fascinating; an orb of light darted and hovered about 19 miles to the side of of our car for about a minute or less. We had stopped to watch the sunset, a beautiful one at that, and watched the dazzling colors of maroon and orange descend to the east. However, after the sun set, my grandmother noticed a single orange light hovering in place for about 10-15 seconds. We watched it for a little bit, but as we started the car up, the engine made the usual raucus noise that it does. It was at this time that I noticed the light darting up to the right of its former position. I don't know if it was the engine or our presence that startled it, but as it flew away it began to morph colors to match the darkening sky, and within seconds was gone, camouflaged like a chameleon. I have alway believed in life beyond our solar system, and even intelligent life. I would have never imagined to see something like this in my life. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 9, 2014 · 10:15 PM · OTHER
Traverse City, MI
Was going into the backyard to adjust the telescope for viewing the full moon. Noticed 5 red lights in formation first thought was it was aircraft but then realized the lights were large and close together. The line of sight was over some trees and I would guess that the lights were with in a mile from me and not that high in the sky. I was yelling for my wife to witness what I was seeing but she couldn't hear me. So, I ran to the house, and she ran out. I would say that took less than twenty seconds for us both to be back to the spot of sight. We witnessed one light disappear rapidly into the upper skyline at a very rapid rate not sure where the rest went. The lights were almost like a v shape and were a constant brightness. I am reporting this as I am hoping others in the area may have seen the same thing at a better sight advantage. The length of time from the sighting to the red light disappearing into the night sky was less than two minutes it happened very quickly. Wish I had had more time to observe.
August 7, 2014 · 12:01 AM · UNKNOWN
Grand Blanc, MI
I live on a bluff above a creek. I went out to let the puppy out by the pool. Neighbors often put out fireworks during the summer, so I thought nothing of this for a split second. Then I realized that there was no sound at all from what I saw. It was very brilliant at first...in the shape of what I can only describe as a gold and yellow bow-tie with a orange center dot. I tried to discount this as we live in the flight path of a local airport. This thing moved in a fluid motion from from north northwest to straight above and rapidly ascended above and fell out of view. I really did not want it to go away. I told my husband about this and of course, he thinks I am retarded. I have never said ANYTHING like this to him before. gold/yellow Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 6, 2014 · 9:03 PM · LIGHT
Grand Rapids, MI
On the horizon, in the south west, was a bright light; looking like Venus or a star. This ufo was approaching at about 30 mph. About 1-2 miles out. About 3 football fields up from the ground or a 1,000 feet up from the ground. It almost collided with an outbound jet traveling from the south east and going north west at about the same height. Paths of the jet and ufo crossed, just about overhead, about a 1/4 mile to the north by northwest. The jet can be heard in the video I took. The ufo would not show up on my smart phone screen as a videoed. Only the blink, blink of the jet showed up on my phone screen as I recorded. The ufo was recorded when I aimed the camera eye at the peak of a 30 foot building with a mercury light on the side of the building. The mercury light is the size of a beach ball and is seen in the lower left of the video. The mercury light is about 3 feet down from the peak. As the ufo passed in the background of the peak I recorded it. mike Michigan ufo (you! tube) 24 seconds of video taken. It was silent as can be. It never altered its shine. No FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) lights on the ufo. No strobes. It never so much as flickered. It continued in a straight path going, again, north east at 30 mph. The jet continued on. We have looked at the photos, provided by the witness, and we do not see anything that seems to us to be unambiguously related to the presence of a UFO. PD
August 3, 2014 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
White Lake, MI
I was outside smoking and I looked up at the sky to look at the stars like I always do and I saw this ball of fire. I ran and got my boyfriend in the backyard and he saw it to. We thought maybe it was a hot air balloon or something but it was so low we could tell it wasn't. Just as were studying it.. It vanished like it moved so quickly that it basically vanished. This is the first time either one of us saw something un explainable ever. I was wondering if anyone else saw something like this too.
August 2, 2014 · 11:45 PM · LIGHT
Livonia, MI
I walked out to my back yard with my dogs. I looked towards the north and observed three reddish-orange objects/lights in the sky. Two were in line with each other (south to north direction) and the third was slightly to the east. I went back into the house and called my wife to come outside to see this and grabbed my cell phone (to see if I could get a couple of pictures). When we came back out, all three were in line (south to north direction) and moving slowly towards the south. The lead one began to fade until it was no longer visible and each of the other two did the same as they reached the same spot in the sky. They made no sound. After the third one had faded away a commercial jet flew from west to east near where they faded away at a much lower altitude than what the lights were at.
July 28, 2014 · 12:00 PM · OTHER
Fruitport, MI
two attached jellyfish looking moving east to west huge shadow like figure pulsating in movement mind blowing
July 27, 2014 · 3:45 AM · OTHER
Saint Claire Shores, MI
My friend and I decided that we wanted to go outside for a little bit due to the fact that everyone else was asleep. When we first went outside, we were shocked to see a shooting start only for it to be closely followed by flashing lights that we thought were an airplane. We got a strange feeling and went inside. We went back outside with our third friend, only to start seeing white lights resembling satellites that would fade in and out and move much slower than regular satellites. All three of us then noticed that what we thought to be a plane at first until it moved over us. It had one red light on front and three white lights. It was in the shape of a diamond and after passing over us it looked as if one of the white lights on the end was above the two lower white lights. It was flying low enough that if it was a plane we could have heard it, but the object did not make a sound at all. We watched the object until it disappeared behind a tree. We sat staring at the sky to see if we could see anything else. About 15 minutes later we all noticed the shape again. It was just as low and came in from the same direction and exited in the same direction. It wasn't a plane. It moved too silently and too slowly. I've never witnessed anything like it. After we saw the second craft we all began to feel very weighted down. It was as if our legs were held to the ground. This feeling lasted for a half hour only to start fading when the sun came up. It was the craziest thing.
July 24, 2014 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Taylor, MI
My neighbor came running in the house yelling for me to hurry come outside, there's a UFO! I ran outside and looked in the direction they were pointing, and sure enough, there was an object hovering in the sky. I could not really make out the shape of the object but, it appeared to have a string or bar of white lights on it. The lights were not flashing or anything. It was just hovering there, no noise or anything. Then it slowly began to move behind the trees and we lost sight of it. Just after it went out of sight, a commercial airplane flew by moving a lot quicker than the object we just witnessed. So, we are positive it was not a plane.
July 23, 2014 · 11:40 PM · SPHERE
Clinton Township, MI
First sighting was one glowing orb shining bright orange, dimming to red. It disappeared in thin air, then another appeared. Then after it, 2 more. All moving across the sky. They could not be mistaken for lanterns, as they appeared above the tree line, moved across the sky then disappearing. Saw the same thing last year, but last time there were about 10.
July 23, 2014 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Ypsilanti, MI
There were four red lights moving in different directions. They looked like they were sparrow (bird) shaped with a bright red ball of light in the center. One began to shrink and suddenly disappeared. The other three continued to move in a SW direction and then they suddenly vanished. They made no sound at all.
July 23, 2014 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Brownstown, MI
It was 10:00 p.m. on July 23rd. It was a clear, dark night with stars clearly visible in the sky. A bright orange circular object appeared from line of sight in a suburb above the house across the street. It traveled over our house, making no noise, and continued along the same direction moving quickly across the sky from the NE to the SW, until it was obscured by our house. The size was comparable to 30’ diameter sphere. fter the third object appeared I grabbed my phone and did a video of the object as it traveled across the sky. The video is not good quality and did not show the color as orange and it was in person. I noted they traveled about the height that a helicopter would use. After studying the night sky in between sightings I made some observations. We live in a high traffic area for planes. This was not a plane, nor a helicopter. It made no sound. Plane traffic had stopped in the area. They normally circle above us at varying heights. It was like nothing I have ever seen. I also noted that two helicopters were moving around the area within 10 minutes of the second object, about 5 minutes before the third object appeared. This also coincided with the obvious lack of airplane traffic in the sky. The helicopters traveled in the same direction as the objects eventually disappearing into the distance.
July 23, 2014 · 1:30 AM · DISK
Grand Rapids, MI
The sighting happened on 7/22/2014, ((sic. 07/23/2014)) at around 1:30 am. I walked out a bar and to a car. When I sat in the car, I noticed something was gliding in the air. I assumed it was a plane, so I didn't stare at it too long. About 5 or 10 minutes went by, and then I saw my friends coming out from the bar and in front of the car I was in. I looked up, and the craft was still up in the air, just sitting there. It wasn't moving at all, and at that moment I realized what its shape was and how close it was. No noises came from it, even though it was fairly large. I got out of the car, and walked to where my friends were. I still didn't hear anything. It was flashing these bright lights, mostly red. It was in a big long strip around the hemisphere of the craft, and it seemed like it was a lot of smaller lights making it look like a red strip. Inside the red strip were little bright red dots, so I assume that means those were individual lights. Sometimes it flashed green on one side, and sometimes blue on the other side. The red was almost always on. I think i might have seen another color, but all I can remember is red, green, and blue. The craft flashed the lights in weird patterns, sometimes it was just still, sometimes the lights flashed. It was dark out, so they were very bright and intense. It was hard to see what color the craft was, because of the light, but I think it was metallic. I know for sure it was shaped like a UFO. It was a flying saucer, more round than flat. We were quite close to this craft too, close enough to get a good look at it. My friends and I watched this craft move and glide around in the air, taking sharp turns in weird directions. It would stop, then lower itself straight down in a perfect fast motion, then stop. Then it would rise up, perfectly straight, and stop mid-air. It went even higher and higher, in the same vertical way, and then it stopped and lowered itself again. Then it would start flying around back and forth, like it was watching something. It did this for q! uite a w hile, moving around then going up and down fast then slow. I felt like I could see something around it, but I'm not sure what that was. I might have been seeing something as a result of those lights, but it seemed like the craft was inside of something else. When the craft left, it just lowered itself down below the treeline, and never came back up. I waited in the car for about 25 minutes, but it did not come back.
July 20, 2014 · 9:37 PM · CIRCLE
Ann Arbor (Milan), MI
Saw 2 big orange/amber lights coming from the south of Milan. Could not tell what they where because no noice, or sound of propellers, went over my house, lights went out 2 saucer shaped objects appear flying toward ann arbor or north watched them disappeared into horizon. Me and my grandson where out in the deck drinking beer and watching the airplanes going and coming from Detroit metro. The light was like I never seen before, I swear we saw the saucer shape objects flying, no sound, but we could see saucer shape, could not get pics.
July 19, 2014 · 11:14 PM · CIRCLE
Gowen, MI
Sitting at a bonfire with wife children and buddy and his wife i noticed a bright white light in the distance coming from west heading east at first thought it was plane but had no red or blue flashers the size was about the size of a dime when first noticed as it came closer the size grew smaller object then over top of us disappeared as we sat looking up where the object was a flash like a shooting star from where the object disappeared shot directly to the north at an indescribable rate of speed
July 19, 2014 · 10:30 PM
Grand Rapids, MI
July 25, (2014) (sic. Corrected by witness to July 23rd, 2014) I was about five minutes from home, when again, I saw some of the same type of lights. I pulled into a parking lot, and counted 7 of them. They were at a fairly low altitude, coming out of the northwest heading southeast. I almost couldn’t believe what I was seeing. But there they were. So, I came home, went out in my backyard with my Brother, and they were still there, moving fairly slow. We counted about 9 this time. The last one that appeared was bright red, then changed to orange. About that time, we saw an aircraft coming from North to South. It was probably at about 35,000 feet. It looked quite distant relative to the strange lights. After that I did a little research online, and saw similar accounts of the same type of lights. I would not make something like this up. I have nothing to gain from it. I just wanted to report it, and would like to know if there were any other accounts on the objects I saw. ((ADDENDUM FROM SAME ANONYMOUS SOURCE)) My second sighting occurred on the Wednesday the 24, Sorry for the error. (sic. July 23rd) Wednesday of this week was July 23rd, 2014. We are totally confused by the report, and by the "correction" by the witness. PD ((END ADDENDUM)) Wednesday of this week was July 23rd, 2014, not the 24th. We are totally confused by the report, and by the "correction" by the witness. However, the witness has elected to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information. PD
July 16, 2014 · 9:00 PM · OVAL
Grand Rapids, MI
It is July 16, 2014, 9:25 pm, the reason I know what time it was because my father and law stated to my sister in-laws that he timed them out of the yard chore that had been done at 9:25 pm July 16, 2014. During this initial conversation, I looked up into the sky saw a plane coming from the south and the plane was clear enough for me to have stated sitting in front of the wing and the rear of the wing a few times in my life. While looking up at the air plane, reminiscing about old times, I noticed a oval shaped faintly lit orange object in the sky heading west moving about the same speed as the airplane I spoke of earlier. I watched this object about the size of a head of a 5/32 drill bit down to a 1/8 drill bit, then all of sudden I seen about 3/4 of an inch of white smoke behind the 1/8 inch drill bit size object disappeared. (Shapes and sizes are my point of view of the flying object from where I was standing in Grand Rapids, Michigan, while looking up into a clear blue sky the plane was about an 1 inch long in the sky. ) Keep in mind the plane was heading northeast, and the object was heading west.
July 13, 2014 · 9:20 PM · FIREBALL
Muskegon, MI
We observed a comet like flaming object with a mid sized tail moving from the north northeast to the west southwest direction with a 45 degree descent for approximately 15 minutes before going behind the western cloud. As it moved we could see that there was no residue behind the trail proving it was not a che trail and it periodically grew brighter as if it was on fire. Tried to capture it on camera on my phone but it was not picking it up well. When we increase magnification it does show a circle form.