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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
December 15, 2023 · 11:45 PM · LIGHT
Capac, MI
Was driving down m21 and saw the object, initially thought nothing of it until it moved, my car stalled as I noticed it begin to move it moved in a straight line for a substantial distance then stopped, hovered on its axis then turned and shot up into the sky in a streak of light leaving an orange trace behind it. Estimated altitude at time of first sight is 500 or so feet, then it shot off at an astronomical speed and gained altitude almost as fast it it was moving across the sky, vanished in an instant, it made no sound and the lights were not blinking as required in the u.s. heard coyotes all around begin barking and howling for a few seconds unril it was gone
December 14, 2023 · 11:12 PM · CIRCLE
Smiths Creek, MI
I took my dog out at about 11:11pm last night. When I looked up in the sky, I noticed something strange and ran to grab my phone to film it. I recorded 2-3 videos of the object and posted it on my facebook as well.
December 14, 2023 · 10:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Probable conventionalBrownstown Charter Township, MI
I took my dog out to potty before bed. Very clear evening, I noticed right away a very bright what I thought was an aircraft. As looked closer I saw that the object/ light was not moving. I went into the house and got my iPhone and recorded it for about a minute and a half. I watched it for at least 10 minutes and it never moved. The object was pulsating and emitting quickly changing colored lights. I zoomed in and it appeared that the object was changing shape from round to multi lobed. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
December 14, 2023 · 4:18 AM · LIGHT
Almont, MI
Lights in the eastern clear cloudless sky would appear brightly and then move left and right and then disappear. They would then appear again a few minutes after disappearing and move around again and then dissappear. This happened many times over again. The pictures show a triangle formation that they formed before moving and then disappearing. The video shows how bright they are compared to the house lights on the horizon.
December 8, 2023 · 9:00 PM · DISK
Lowell, MI
I was driving from Ludington MI to visit family on east side of state. I was driving on I-96 heading east just passing Grand Rapids on Friday December 8, 2023 at about 9:00pm. In between Cascade and Lowell Charter Township on north side of highway, a very bright light fell from sky. It then slowed and hovered right by highway on north side. It was a thicker disc shape, grey/silver in color, just hovering, with two very bright white lights on each side on front circumference and multiple multi colored lights around back end of circumference, red, green. The lights from the front illuminated so bright, that you could view around it and there weren’t any wings or segmented parts, just disc shape. Appeared to either be shiny or have windows on the side facing us. My son was sitting behind me and was a witness also. We were so shocked and scared that we couldn’t pick up our phone to take photo right away. I begged my son to please get a video while it was still hovering and I driving away from it. We were about a mile down road by the time he was able to come out of a scared mindset to take the video. You can see it on the upper right side of the video briefly. I was so scared and wanted to get out of there so fast. I now regret not turning around and going back to get better videos or pictures. I am still very shaken up by this and try to not let my son know how emotional I am right now about what we witnessed. I have never believed in any such paranormal thing or ufo until now! In the video you can here my son still saying he can’t take video with how shocked he was and me in disbelief in background. Please help me to find out if more people have videos or captured anything on radars in this area. My son said to me, “mom I can almost see inside of it”. That is how close it was. Maybe a football field away from highway and about football field up. Size comparison would be roughly 3 or 4 school buses in size, of course being compacted in disc shape. I called the hotline also to make report. Second report iof same incident: I was driving from Ludington MI to visit family on east side of state. I was driving on I-96 heading east just passing Grand Rapids on Friday December 8, 2023 at about 9:00pm. In between Cascade and Lowell Charter Township on north side of highway, a very bright light fell from sky. It then slowed and hovered right by highway on north side. It was a thicker disc shape, grey/silver in color, just hovering, with two very bright white lights on each side on front circumference and multiple multi colored lights around back end of circumference, red, green. The lights from the front illuminated so bright, that you could view around it and there weren’t any wings or segmented parts, just disc shape. Appeared to either be shiny or have windows on the side facing us. My son was sitting behind me and was a witness also. We were so shocked and scared that we couldn’t pick up our phone to take photo right away. I begged my son to please get a video while it was still hovering and I driving away from it. We were about a mile down road by the time he was able to come out of a scared mindset to take the video. You can see it on the upper right side of the video briefly. I was so scared and wanted to get out of there so fast. I now regret not turning around and going back to get better videos or pictures. I am still very shaken up by this and try to not let my son know how emotional I am right now about what we witnessed. I have never believed in any such paranormal thing or ufo until now! In the video you can here my son still saying he can’t take video with how shocked he was and me in disbelief in background. Please help me to find out if more people have videos or captured anything on radars in this area. My son said to me, “mom I can almost see inside of it”. That is how close it was. Maybe a football field away from highway and about football field up. Size comparison would be roughly 3 or 4 school buses in size, of course being compacted in disc shape. I called the hotline also to make report.
December 8, 2023 · 4:11 AM · EGG
Probable conventionalMacomb, MI
Woke up around 4am to my dog growling and barking. Unusual for him. Checked Ring for people in the yard, saw no one. Noticed light in upper right corner and watched it for a while. It never moved. After 20 minutes I took the dogs out. Saw nothing with my own eyes and light was gone. Saw nothing. Wiped off my ring camera thinking maybe it was condensation. Checked it again when I went in and it was still there. Never moving. Saw arc to left of it. Live near Selfridge air base but object was still the whole time. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
November 28, 2023 · 6:25 PM · FORMATION
Lawrence, MI
I was driving westbound on 94 towards Chicago. Suddenly 6 bright lights appeared above the horizon, not moving and in a vertical formation. The lights stayed still for at least 30 seconds and my eyes were glued to them. Eventually after about 40 seconds the top light flickered, then disappeared, then the bottom light did the same thing. The remaining four lights all followed suit from bottom to top in about 10 second intervals. These lights were not moving at all and appeared very far away in the sky. Even though they were in formation, they were not close together and had significant spacing in between them - which is why i dont think this was Star link. [NUFORC annotation: Flares - Possible]
November 13, 2023 · 8:23 PM · SPHERE
Delta Charter Township, MI
Ufo night sky: camera footage
November 12, 2023 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Ann Arbor, MI
Bright large object with colored lights (blue white red) spotted on sky, lights shining with bright beams. At first , it was hovering in one spot and then started to rapidly move with erratic movements. Lights went off and object reappear on opposition location, very rapidly. The sound was very loud like a big jetplane.
November 1, 2023 · 2:00 PM · EGG
Silverwood, MI
It didn’t make any noise, it is very quiet in Silverwood. There weren’t any contrails. It didn’t have wings.
October 20, 2023 · 2:00 PM · OTHER
Probable conventionalMarquette, MI
Was taking pictures of Lake Superior and later when I was looking at the pictures this red thing was in the photo. It was in only one photo, my wife and I never saw it in real life. It would have been very easy to spot with sunshine and 0 obstructions. I took several photos quickly and this was in only one. If you have any idea what it is please tell me, thank you. [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Probable]
October 18, 2023 · 8:32 PM · OTHER
Sand lake, MI
It was so quick, I looked up and pointed with my right hand with my daughter in my left arm and said “what the ((deleted)) is that”. It’s cloudy out, enough to not see any stars. It was below the cloud line and huge! It was 4-6 lights on each side of the V with one light dead center of the V. One side was a little bit longer than the other and the all of the lights were off center just a little bit in a zipper pattern. I’m the time it took me to say “what the fuck is that” it appeared and disappeared. Seemed to have been moving very very fast and so smooth. I’m in awe. Agin multiple lights on each side shaped as a V with one light in the center and the rest staggered just a little bit. Very low, very fast, and extremely quiet. I’m so sure of what I seen when it disappeared my wife and I looked at each other with a daughter in both of our arms and she said “I want to go inside now!”. I googled “v shaped lights in the sky” and the phoenix lights popped up on Google and I swear to you that’s exactly what it looked like almost so perfect only difference is that it was right above our heads. Not off the the east or west or north directly above my head at least when it disappeared.
October 14, 2023 · 8:25 PM · UNKNOWN
TAYLOR, MI
Opened back door and saw 2 lights in sky. Oblong in shape and were not stars or planets! First object was to the north-east and second object was to the east. Looked away and they where both still there. There was no clouds in immediate area either. This happened approx. 8:25 EST pm. 10-14-2023. last one I saw was reported to police department 5 years ago. Today 10-15-2023 I read that ufos were sighted in Texas approx. same time. This is too odd.
October 6, 2023 · 12:05 PM · CYLINDER
Grand rapids, MI
I happened to be looking up to the South and in between the clouds I could see a white cylinder standing on its edge floating West above the clouds about the speed of a jet plane. The wind is about 15 to 25 miles an hour and it was going against the wind. I watched it for approximately 20 seconds before a cloud passed underneath it and it and obscured my view.
October 1, 2023 · 6:50 AM · UNKNOWN
Hamtramck, MI
I was facing south at first when I noticed a bright green light in the sky to the west of me and I started to watch it when it started to flash the green light and started to fly away further and higher when it disappeared then all of a sudden at the original spot a bright red light was there hovering then flashing then started to move behind some clouds and disappeared again before it showed back up and started to descend before it just disappeared out of sight. I can’t tell the shape of it but I do have video and one picture. Also I called out to my dad and he seen the same thing. This was few miles to the west of my location
September 30, 2023 · 10:04 PM · CIRCLE
South Haven Michigan, MI
It was 10 o’clock at night on the last day of September at 10:00 PM. Myself and my friend were sitting in my you car overlooking Lake Michigan. When we both turn to the right and noticed two very bright stars that were not high in the sky. Then we noticed each one of them shut the lights off, and we immediately got out of the car and started filming. We still on for a few minutes, but we observed for 20 minutes. I took the footage with my iPhone 12 and I captured two of them. My friend, and I knew what we were saying was odd, and nothing that a plane could do in the sky, which he will be able to observe on his video.
September 25, 2023 · 9:54 AM · LIGHT
Delta Township, MI
Stationary save for recording. Appeared again the next evening. Fast moving cloud also appeared with a light flash in middle
September 16, 2023 · 2:06 AM · FLASH
Sagola, MI
I have been witnessing strange lights or orbs (I’m honestly not sure) for over a year now. They are sometimes white, sometimes flashing different colors. They seem to stay in a generalized area for the most part but will bounce around. There are times that they move significantly. I’ve caught on film throughout this past year many things I cannot explain. I’ve shown people that don’t understand it either. In one picture you see a white ball looking object on the ground in front of the shed. I was outside on the porch smoking a cigarette when I looked and noticed something seeming to glow. I then took a video and showed the people whose house it was and they had no explanation of what it could be. We were on a dirt road with no neighbors anywhere near us so it wasn’t some ball from a neighbors yard or balloon or whatever. The videos are anywhere from last July- yesterday. I would love for someone to come witness this that can give me some sort of peace of mind about what I’m dealing with. There are many videos some hour or longer, in which case a couple times I have lost spurts of time. I have no recollection of those minutes that pass. I should note that I have never felt threatened or scared in their presence, just curious and almost hypnotized.
September 13, 2023 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Eastpointe, MI
i was smoking with my friend on the roof and the sky was clear, no clouds in sight, and we spotted these lights moving really fast through the sky and then we spotted another one and there were so many, they were faster than helicopters or planes and they were close to the stars so too high up for planes. some of them formed triangles, and some of them were just flying around. some of them had lights blinking red and white and some were still white or still red. we couldn’t identify a shape, they just looked like spheres with lights.
September 13, 2023 · 2:03 PM · SPHERE
Petoskey, MI
My wife and I observed the white orb for well over a half hour till light clouds obscured our vision. To be quite honest we both believe it matched previous Chinese Spy Balloons. We compared our photos and video to prior observers of the past spy balloons. It was a perfect match. Be aware the object is in approximately center of photos and video, so zoom in. Location out back patio compass showed 255 degree W. 45°22'30" N 84°47'48" W. In one screen recording I took of a video the object moves quickly from left to right. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
September 6, 2023 · 9:31 PM · LIGHT
Washington, MI
Just went to walk go outside of the apartment complex. Looked over and saw lights flying as airplane, but sometimes shaking side to side. Lights pattern does not correspond to airplane. It was light a yellow star of 6 or 8 points, with a red circle in the middle. Flight pattern was from 42.725611329717715, -83.0310610191616 to 42.73566765566228, -83.02167009855278, the disapeared in the layer of light cloud, not showing up again.
September 4, 2023 · 9:28 PM · OVAL
Portage, MI
Walking Soutbound along Moorsbridge Rd in Portage MI and saw a line of 12 or so blue lights toward my East traveling in a straight line from the South, Northbound. They were visible for approx 2 minutes when I noticed them and as I turned around and followed them, they disappeared into the sky. They were not white lights in tonight’s sky, they were more of a blue hue. I checked the starlink website and the traveling directions and times do not match.
September 3, 2023 · 5:50 AM · CHANGING
Waterford, MI
First noticed a bright "light" on my lake, from my bathroom window, later observed an object in the sky, the "light" on the lake was a reflection of the object. The object was bright, like a LED light in the sky. it did not move around, but it seemed to change shapes, circle, cigar, corn, etc. However, I have vision issues, so not 100% sure about the shapes. It might also be caused by clouds: at times, the object was shadowed by clouds. It stayed there for about half an hour, may be longer, because I went back to sleep when it gradually got day light outside. I took a few pictures using my Google P7 phone. See attached.
September 2, 2023 · 12:07 AM · OTHER
Ypsilanti, MI
I saw a bright light appear (SE sky) if facing east bright light was at 2 o'clock). The bright light shot across the sky. It appeared to shoot across like a shooting star would in the sky. However the size was much larger then a planet or airplane light. Also the way it shot across was different. It shot up and slightly down as it moved forward similar to a shooting start l. However it seemed to move more east. Appeared almost like it was entering an opening into the sky. There was no light trail/ tail. Seen it was a meteor (and if it was it would b of size that was found) or ufo.I still can't make sense of it and trust me I've tried to make it make sense! [NUFORC annotation: Meteor - Possible]