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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
July 27, 2022 · 9:30 PM
Detroit, MI
Driving home from a meeting on E Jefferson in Detroit a green object was in the the sky motionless. The surface was bumpy.
July 26, 2022 · 9:43 PM · OVAL
Shelby Township, MI
Bright Sphere that was spinning clockwise , and then turned to cigar shape and then went updward Very fast. Traveling about 3900 foot above ground level Speed was about 150 knots Traveling south / south east at 143 degrees No sound from the object Almost like it knew I was watching it
July 22, 2022 · 10:25 PM · OTHER
STOCKBRIDGE, MI
July 22, 2022 2225 Hrs A linear formation of multiple (approximately 10) white lights was observed moving from the south to the north. The lights were evenly spaced and the sky was clear. They moved in unison and stayed in a straight line. One other witness observed the same phenomenon. The formation was not comprised of traditional known aircraft. There was no sound detected from the lights either. The lights did have a slight "twinkling" effect as far as brightness. Observed by: 48 y.o. male, a career firefighter and former police officer. I worked the night shift for many years. I have never observed a formation of lights like this before. Starlnk satellites
July 22, 2022 · 9:47 PM · CIGAR
Cedar Springs, MI
2 Friends and I were sitting out on the back deck behind the house which has an open sky to the north and west over the 131 highway. I noticed what I initially thought was a cloud as I looked up casually but it was moving strangely. It had a defined shape and was moving against the wind and direction of the other clouds in the sky. It was solid, light grey in shape and was completely matte. There was no reflection of light from sunset. It was so strange that I pointed to it and said, "Hey, what is that thing?". They turned and saw the same object, headed north. Just floating fast across the sky. It's shape did not change at all, it was a large metallic object like a cigar or a cylinder. My friend said, " Whoa! What the f**k is that?!" and the other friend also exclaimed, " Dude that, uhhhh..." and then the object lit up bright green and began to sporadically shimmer with round green lights all along the bottom quarter of the rounded craft, the rest of my friends sentence was, " uhhhh... Guys it's lighting up!?" and then it turned invisible and the lights remained a moment. and then the lights all dimmed into nothing and it was completely gone. We talked about it and came to the conclusion that we'd just seen a ufo of some kind and we were very excited. About an hour later we were still out on the deck after sunset and about 20 or so white lights started zipping across the sky in all directions, some flashing and pulsing, others traveling together and passing each other. A flash would occur, then a bright light would appear moving from the flash across the sky in a straight line. These lights were brighter than anything else in the sky. And then nothing. It was the strangest and most amazing thing I have ever seen in my life.
July 22, 2022 · 4:00 PM · OVAL
Tustin, MI
I have planes flying over all the time so I was watching this Cessna type plane when out of the corner of my eye I seen a white object in the northeast part of the sky so I grabbed my phone and snapped some pictures of the object I snapped 6 altogether 3 closeup and 3 longer range I was just looking at the pictures and in the longer range pictures there's another one which I just noticed I could only upload 4 of them I still have 2 other photos of these tic tac type objects like I said I just noticed the second one I need to look at these photos more closely there might be more
July 21, 2022 · 11:36 PM · UNKNOWN
Onaway, MI
My wife was on the back porch waiting for the dogs to come in. I was at the kitchen sink 15 feet away down the hall. She called me to "come an look at this light". When I got there, this light, what we thought was the ISS, stopped! It sat there motionlessly for about a minute. Then the light went off for a second then came back on as bright as first witnessed, then went off for a second and came back dimmer. Oh yeah, it was traveling from west to east. It repeated this same pattern of on bright then off, then back on dim, then off, then bright and so on. It was finally obscured by the neighbors trees. About two minutes later, I was looking east over the neighbors roof through a gap in his other trees, I saw a light come on for a second, go off, then came back on to the left, at the same elevation, then went off, and came back on to the right again, at a higher elevation, go off, then come back on to the left at the same elevation then no more. Its like it did a zig-zag, a Z, and that's it. My wife didn't see that part of the display! Hopefully we weren't the only witnesses to this sighting. It was as bright as the space station, which we see often. Satellites, jets, meteors, planes, star-link satellites are all pretty easy to discern! In 2013 we saw 2 fighter jets chasing an object. I sent you a report. Lots of witnesses to object!!! Never heard a word of it except the morning radio shows were bombarded with calls!! May 8th, 2013!!! Thanks for your work!!!
July 21, 2022 · 10:01 PM · DIAMOND
Muskegon, MI
Taking photographs of lightning strikes when we saw a disc come from under the water in the lake. There was a loud sound like a hovercraft or jet plane and it was making our car shake and this disk appeared to be lifting out of the water in our photos.
July 18, 2022 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Auburn Hills, MI
I have no formal training but have been satellite spotting with my father for almost 20 years. Tonight I saw what appeared to be two satellites moving almost in a parallel orbit but One was moving slightly on an angle toward the other and was moving slightly faster. I noted this Becuaue I always pay extra attention to multiple in proximity. Then the one seemed to be closing in and tracking the other from what looked to be much higher up but closing in on it in from the southwest to north east. The one that was being tracking was moving almost directly south to north. The one that came from behind got what in my view was pretty close and then veered almost 90 degrees within a split second, it was almost instantaneously. It then resumed a straight but noticeably slower path directly east southeast after and looked just like any other satellite again. I would never report this if I didn’t see this. I don’t know if it was USA checking out something flying over our airspace or if it was something tracking one of our satellites but saw exactly what I just described it there is zero chance either of them were airplanes. I have NEVER seen anything like that before. And what creeped me out was it seemed to notice that I noticed or something else noticed it was tracking the other object and then tried to look as if it were any other satellite. Just after making what I saw was a serious change in direction in less than a second, it seemed intelligent or controlled and was trying to look like a satellite from the ground or what have you. If someone could get back to me on this I would be enveloped. Please bring me into the black projects I feel like I was meant to see that. I then saw another satellite on the exact same trajectory as the one being tracked not even two minutes later.
July 14, 2022 · 12:51 PM · CIRCLE
YPSILANTI, MI
Was at Willow Run Airport (YIP) filming the Blue Angels practicing for the Air Show, and due to it being bright outside i didnt notice it until after i had gone over the footage. You can see in the video at the time of filming i noticed something dart away from the aircraft and tried to follow it but just figured it was a glare or something. Once i broke the video down frame by frame you can tell the object approaches the plane (above the plane) then hovers and slightly dips down, then darts up and towards the NE. I've been in aviation about 10 years and have worked as an aircraft operations lead for a charter operator, i'm very well aware of aircraft and aviation as a whole. I'm also a skeptic myself, but this one i cannot explain.
July 13, 2022 · 6:45 PM · CYLINDER
Beaver Island, MI
Five of us, ages 20 - 79 were sitting around a campfire. Weather was clear and no wind, about 70 degrees. Sun still fairly high. There was a medium loud, EXTREMELY FAST huge whoosh from west to east over us. We experienced/felt a sensation (energy/air?).. At first, we just looked at each other in shocked disbelief, then out loud to each other "did you hear that?". Our mixed breed dog immediately ran to the east then back to us very fast with all hair on her back and neck standing on end, She was obviously freaked out. Twenty-year-old Ethan happened to be already looking up at that moment and saw two objects flying side by side, shinny metallic, about 2-3 feet wide and 4-6 feet long, about 100 feet in the air. Because of the speed, he said it was actually a blur, but this is his best description. The rest of us saw nothing as we looked the direction it was going, and there was no visible tail. Note: none of us were predisposed to believe in UFOs, but probably not 100% disbelievers either,
July 13, 2022 · 12:34 PM · EGG
Homer, MI
I was star gazing when I saw a white egg like thing come from the west start a nosedive,pull out of the nosedive and go west,then point up at the sky and go upwards then gain at least 500 mph in speed in the blink of an eye,head west and then it disappeared.
July 11, 2022 · 8:45 AM · CIGAR
St Clair Shores, MI
My coworker and I work at a daycare center and everyone morning around 8:30am we take a walk with the kids around the neighborhood. My coworker looked at the sky and said “look an airplane” and then she goes “wait, what is that?” I look up and we saw a long silver tube gliding in the sky. It was obvious it was big and it was during the day so we clearly tell there were no wings or propellers. It made no noise and it looked like it was flying on an angle almost. We were so confused and didn’t know what it was, so neither one of us thought to take out or phones for a picture. it then became blocked by some trees so we walked around to to get another look at it but it was gone. There were no clouds in the sky either so it should have still been in sight.
July 6, 2022 · 9:20 PM · OTHER
Goodrich, MI
Resting, sitting on my deck with my dog, a bright flash of white light, lit the southern sky. My dog and I both turned our head toward it and all I saw was a small, very tiny round cloud sitting above another normal looking series of clouds and as I was trying to focus on it wondering if that is where the light flash came from, I spotted something right above that tiny round cloud, Seemingly coming down from west to east at a 45° angle, but tapering off at a stable & straight Westward line of travel. The object was oblong, like a TicTac and either emitting white luminescence making it appear to be rotating as it was flying forward, or it was actually rotating as it was flying forward. There was no noise and no jet stream as all planes we can observe on any given day from here, make audible engine sound as well as jet streams from even further distances than this flying object. It was not storming, nor was there any heat lightning that day/evening. There was too much sunlight for it to be a visible satellite and the satellite tracker from NASA showed none passing by at that time, Plus it was way too low in the sky to be a satellite, and satellites do not emit light. Screenshots I have taken from my 20 second, original video (stored intact), when enhanced with light reduction or addition, added contrast, etc., expose no discernible features like airplane wings. The object does look somewhat disc shaped when it’s moving at the slant in the very beginning when it was spotted.
July 3, 2022 · 8:35 PM · CYLINDER
Grand Rapids, MI
Playing catch with my daughter - saw a soundless white tic tac. My wife caught the last minute or so too. There other details I’d like to share via a conversation. I have videos and pictures.
July 2, 2022 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Shelby, MI
My wife and I were sitting outside..I seen a white light flash behind me and then 5 lights with 50 feet between lights blazed by so fast..I stood up and there was nothing..so I observed the sky and seen a suspicious light
June 29, 2022 · 4:16 AM · SPHERE
Clinton Township, MI
Approximately 4:16a my partner had a random urge to check the window. I did not actually know what he was doing, as the window was behind me. He was standing there for a good five minutes before I inquired what he was doing. He said, "I'm looking at this huge star. It's the only one out there.". He asked me to come look at it to see if it was a planet or the north star. I was actually shocked when I saw it. It was much too low to be a star or a planet and it was glaringly white. I continued to look at trying to figure out what it was when I noticed it was actually changing color and I could see a reddish/orange flashing. The entire time we viewed this object, it did not drift, go up or down, it was stationary. I told him that I was seeing the color change and he said he noticed other colors; green, blue, red, orange. We stepped onto our front porch and I asked to use his iphone to zoom in with the camera for a better look. That's when I saw it was clearly not a plane or a planet and it was moving within itself in a triangular pattern. There was also a slight halo type shine around it. I showed my partner and he took the phone and tried to get an even clearer shot of it. When he zoomed in, we could clearly see that it was rapidly moving in the triangular pattern INSIDE itself but still looked like a sphere and was still hovering, stationary. It was eerie. There were no birds, no bugs, it was very still and silent even though this object was a considerable distance. By this time, we noticed the object was getting dim. It appeared that it was going in the direction away from us and slow enough that we could see it getting more dim the further away it was getting until it quite literally disappeared. There were no trails, no smoke, no anything left behind. The sky was significantly lighter in that area oddly, despite it still being dark out. Meaning, that the sky was blue. Not black. It was very strange. After it was gone, it went back to being black. We live in a mobile home park. There are so many trees and homes that block our view in that direction that we thought it was quite strange that it appeared directly in our line of sight, low enough to make it easy to rule out that it was not a plane, planet or star. It feels like it wanted us to know it was there and when we had figured out what it was, or rather wasn't, it left. It was also strange that my partner felt the urge, for seemingly no reason at all, to get up and go to the window.
June 22, 2022 · 3:40 AM · CHANGING
Coloma, MI
Bright light that dimmed almost going out but still detectible, brightened again maybe 1-2 x but was in it’s bright phase more throughout it’s duration. Was stationary though it did move somewhat as seen in the video. I would like to say I have witnessed similar phenomenon over the years with similar characteristics. Sometimes turning out not to be suspect others unexplained like this one. So possible a “common” Lake MI great lakes phenomenon?
June 20, 2022 · 1:17 AM · CHANGING
Royal Oak, MI
Have a home surveillance camera in the backyard and saw a series of detected motion videos around 1:15am Central Time in MIchigan which consisted of lights hovering around the camera and jerking around the backyard. They were seen coming toward the camera and then hovering around the yard. Very strange...never saw anything like it on the camera video before. The motion events of the lights kept triggering the camera for about 15 minutes. Videos are attached. You can see small lights and also, a very large blurry round shaped light on the very first video.
June 18, 2022 · 3:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Tecumseh, MI
The craft flew out of the circle. It started to fly towards the east...suddenly stopped to let 2 different planes fly by and zooooomed to the east after that. The circle got bigger and bigger but fading out until it was gone.
June 15, 2022 · 8:51 PM · CIGAR
Troy, MI
I was flying my drone from my third floor balcony. I saw this in the sky while trying to locate my drone. Could not take video because I had the drone app opened and was on a phone call. Snapped pictures. Was moving at a steady speed but seemed too high and not like a plane.
June 14, 2022 · 8:00 PM · CYLINDER
Grant, MI
Hard to tell actual shape of the UFO. It was moving slow to the southwest. Did not hear any engine i.e. Jet or prop. It about 10 minutes to pass. I was coughing a softball team so I couldn't keep a constant eye on it my wife saw it first and told me about it. I thought it might be some type of drone or maybe a weather balloon but the shpae was not round but more cylinder but it was that far away that I could tell the actural shape, my wife said the same thing
June 4, 2022 · 4:42 AM
Clarkston, MI
I was looking up from a sitting position towards the western sky and all of the sudden a fairly bright white ball of light appeared out of nowhere and started moving S.E. fairly quickly then it vanished. And another light appeared in the exact same spot and moving exactly as the first then midway through the sky the first one suddenly appeared for a sec then gone. To my amazement this continued exactly the same pattern Nine Times! Then finally it ended and i saw no more.
June 3, 2022 · 10:30 PM
Clarkston, MI
I seen multiple UFO at night that's clear out I've seen from 1 to 10 everynight i don't have a night vision camera to capture them but you can come and see for yourself i know all aircraft's we have and drones and the satellite and these are not any of those seeing is believing I've seen them all my life from the first one that came over my house and seen these Egypt symbols underneath it and was only 30 feet off the ground when i was a small boy all my brothers seen it too so bring your night vision camera and see them yourself
June 3, 2022 · 9:55 PM · RECTANGLE
Mount Clemens, MI
The unusual object I saw was a rectangle with the wide edge leading while travelling, as if it was a wing without a fuselage or other feature. Color of object was bluish white, the leading edge was brighter than the trailing edge, but did not completely fade away at the trailing edge, which retained it's solidity, but just a shade darker. It seemed to be reflecting the diminishing sunlight and was not emitting its own light, similar to a jet's vapor trail color, at such time of day. The object seemed to be large and in the higher atmosphere or low orbit, and was not disintegrating or burning up. There were no marker lights. The object was crisp, but travelled so fast I couldn't comprehend detail very well. There was no aura, no projecting objects or external details. No beams of light. No color changes. It was difficult to fathom the speed, size and silence of the rectangle which travelled rapidly, in a straight line from NNW to SSE. It crossed my view in about 1 second. Similar to the speed of the large fireball I once saw. The object did not seem to become smaller as it moved. It travelled smoothly. As I am an hobbyist/amateur astronomer, I frequently "look up" and I was already outside, looking to see if the atmosphere was clear enough to bring out the 5" Orion Maksutov telescope and look at some star clusters. My eyes were acclimating to the dark. I was facing south looking almost straight up. It was just before dark, clear, and the eastern sky was navy blue, western sky was still somewhat golden from the waning sunset. Location coordinates: 42°35'48.12"N Latitude 82°53'29.10"W Longitude Part of my N., E., and S. view is obscured by large maple trees, but there is a more open area where I use the telescope. I could still see the object through several holes in the overhead tree foliage as it continued, speeding down to the southern horizon. I can't see to the horizon from the back yard, I am assuming it kept on going. I am an artist, publisher of educational materials, photographer, engineering subject matter consultant, multi-media developer and musician. Hobbies are musical composition and performing, restoration of old sports cars or antique mechanical/electrical 'things', astronomy, off-road bicycling. Plus a few more fun things. I am over 50 years old, male. Sun sign: Aquarius, of course. I uploaded several original artist's renderings of the object as I witnessed it, one is an animated video clip sketch.