Michigan UFO Sightings in 2001

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Completely focused on the object I coudnt figure out what it was. On December 27 at approximately 10:40 pm, I was enroute home from snow plowing I noticed an object in the sky. The object had bright white lights with maybe 1 or 2 small red ones.

I was wathcing the object above the tree line wondering what it could be. I thought since it was around christmas time it might be some sort of ornament. As I got closer probably 100 yards out, I slowed my vehicle to a stand still to get a better look.

The object was probably the size of a basketball court or a little smaller. Upon stopping I noticed the object hovering(standing still)In no more than 5 seconds it went from a dead stand still to an ubrupt fast sprint forward and after a few seconds began to slow. I through my truck in reverse and drove backwards somewhat parallel to the object, the horizon grew higher with trees and I eventually lost it.

I figured I would drive out to the main rd, which was higher in elevation to see the thing departing in the distance. It didnt take any more than 20 seconds to get to the high elevation, and there was nothing to be seen. It either descended into the woods, or departed very very quick.

The way the thing moved and looked, was nothing similar to any aircraft I have ever seen. ((NUFORC Note: we spoke with this individual, and found him to be a credible witness. PD)).

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Wife and I in our hot tub waking to a disc shaped object and flashing light Theres not much to tell. After a day of hunting deer, my wife and I went to the hot tub to warm up. it was a typical day in Michigans Upper Pennsula, the temperature was in the upper 20'S.

I don't remember falling asleep but I woke up to a blinding white light that snaped just like a photo flash in my face, but 50 times bigger.Blinded by the flash, I elbowed my wife asking if she had seen it. Two more times I elbowed her trying to get her attention.

it flashed again, but higher. After the third elbow my wife jumped as if she was startaled by me waking her up. I asked again did you see that? she said see what? I said the bright light that just flashed.

She said no. Just than it flashed again but higher still. She said I saw that .

We watched it go stright up flashing intremittently untill it was out of sight. To this day we can remember many details just that we are both confused. It seams like that evening is blure, that parts are missing.

The things we remember is going to the hot tub, waking, than watching a disc and bright light going stright up. ((NUFORC Note: The date of the sighting is approximate. We assume the year of the sighting is 2001, but we are not certain.

PD)).

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Object as bright as a star traveling in a straight path suddenly changes directions moving backwards almost instantly. This Morning, Thanksgiving, Nov 22nd, while driving to work from Highland MI to East Lansing MI and passing through Howell. I observed the following.

A bright object the size of a star, moving rather slowly across the sky. At first I assumed this object to be a satellite as I have seen them before moving at about the same speed. It was brighter than those I have seen before.

I was thinking perhaps the space station or some other more reflective larger object in outerspace. This object appeared to be at least 10-20 miles up and probably a lot more and outside of our atmosphere. Traveling in a straight line from low North to a higher South projectory.

This was in the Western Sky. Nothing seemed strange about it though, until about a minute later, and keeping my eye on it and driving, it changed Directions. All of the sudden (and a few holy ****'s) later this object is going directly backwards from its original course.

I know this is not normal. I am a well informed astronomer and also pretty well versed in physics. This is Not normal at all and I know nothing of any technology here on earth that could duplicate this fact.

it traveled about the length of 4-6 moons in the opposite direction and while looking for a place to pull over and observe this object was no longer visible. it disappeared but I did not see the disappearance.

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Triangle shaped object the size of 4 to 5 747 airliners with four glowing engines, or lights on each leading side of craft that made no Triangle shape, could see for 5 seconds before it was out of sight. I would guess it to be the size of 4 to 5 747 airliners. It had four glowing engines, or lights on each leading side.

It made no noise at all! ((NUFORC Note: Illustration received from witness. Illustration indicates an isosceles (equilateral) triangle, with four sizable luminous sources of orange light on the "leading" edge of the object. PD)).

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We saw a bell shaped object with three red lights in the shape of a triangle. At 8:10 pm on November 15 2001 my husband and I saw a ufo.It was a bell shape.

Cylinder top with saucer like bottom.It had three red lights on it in the shape of a triangle.It glowed a reddish with a little whitish light.

It had some time of a grill around its middle.It moved very slowly to the left as it was faced towards us.There were two other normal aircraft following it.

We saw it for about eight minutes before it went out of our sight behind the trees.We took 3 pictures but they didnt turn out very well.You can barely see its outline but you can see it if you look carefully.

This is our first time we have seen anything out of the ordinary.

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At approximatly 8:00 pm my husband and I sat down to watch TV and I heard a loud RUMBLING sound outside. I looked out the window and did not see anything, but did not go outside. The next morning our office gal told the story about hearing the loud noise at the same time in the evening and when she went outside saw a flying object over her home which headed west and then came back east over her home a second time.

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Diamond shape craft, loud rumbling noise, spinning lights over Northern Michigan I heard a loud rumbling noise and when it continued I went to my back door to listen. Thinking it was a jet plane I went back inside. The noise continued getting louder, I again went out into the back yard but did not see anything but stars.

I went into our living room where my husband, son, and son's friend were watching TV and asked "can't you hear that", they said yes but thought it was just a jet going over. I told them that was what I thought too, but it must be more than one and going very slow. They went outside to the front of the house and came rushing back in and said you have to come out and see this.

We all went out to the front yard and could see this huge diamond shape with elongated bottom, with a light at each tip and an orange light in the middle. It gradually moved off to the northwest. I went back inside and within 5 minutes they yelled it was coming back.

We all watched as it traveled over our home traveling southeast, when it got over Boyne City all of a sudden all of the outside lights started to spin around. Shortly the light on the right side veered off over Lake Charlevoix, which was to the west, while rest of the craft continued on its course, but soon the lone light came back and was heading the same direction as the large craft. It traveled until it was out of sight.

The next day at work, two of my co-workers said they had also heard the noise, but had not gone outside to investigate. I then started calling law enforcement agencies, FAA, and local airports. I was unable to find out anything.

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I heard a jet approx. 8 pm and looked up. I not only saw the jet but also a slow moving, large object heading north to south.

It was boomerang or triangle shape with lights around the outside emitting a low, rumbling sound. I got into my van and followed the object south until it disappeared, but upon returning to my home, 10 minutes later, it was back traveling south to north. Again I followed the object north of town.

I could not see the object any longer, but did see four (I am guessing) military jets flying in formation over our small village apparently in search of this object. Calls to the local police only verified that others had reported a strange object and that the FAA was notified. No other information was ever forthcoming.

Our village is located at 45 degrees latitude, 80 degrees longitude.

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An object with white lights caught my eye, stopped in the sky and sped off Another witness and myself were up at our cabin last night and witnessed a UFO. The other witness is an ER Doctor and I am a teacher. The conditions of this event were simply perfect.

There was not a cloud in the sky and there were not lights on anywhere in the area. It was a perfect night for just star gazing. Both of us have been looking at the stars for years and are avid outdoors people.

We really never expected anything like this. It's really hard to know who to tell when something so clear, real, and strange occurs. This was real.

We both saw something in the sky we had never seen before. He (the other witness) was writing in a journal with a headlamp. I was sitting in a chair next to him commenting on all the jets going by.

Then a white light moving in its own flight pattern caught my periphreal vision. It was an object with a white light that was kind of like a fog light. The light seemed to go all around it.

When I first saw it I thought it was a plane. It seemed to be coming towards me. I knew there was no airport anywhere nearby.

I then said, "What is that." He then stopped writing in his journal, turned off his headlamp, put on his glasses, and looked up. In that amount of time the oject with the lights had stopped moving.

When he looked up it just hovered. It seemed to be pretty far away and we could not tell its exact shape. One thing that was interesting though is that there seemed to be nothing in between us and it.

It was above the trees. It stopped when we both were looking up at it. It felt like it was looking at us too--the strangest feeling.

It must have hung in the sky for about 2 or 3 seconds. Then it took off at an amazing speed away from us. It kind of went away at an angle,but once it made its move away from us, it was completely out of view in about 2 seconds.

It didn't just disappear though (as if it had turned out the lights), we could see the trail of it leaving and it was getting smaller, but then it was gone on this perfectly clear night. Thi! s whole event took about 8-10 seconds. It was simply fascinating.

Never had either of us even thought about such an event happening. We did not feel that we were in harm though and look forward to sitting in those same chairs another night looking for its return. ((NUFORC Note: Both witnesses hold jobs that require considerable formal, college education.

We spoke with one witness, and found here to be quite credible. PD)).

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A halloween night sky and a craft This event happened last year with two friends of mine on halloween, my friend saw a sort of a horizontal ovalish sphere, it would dissapear through the clouds and appear once agian as it drifted behind the clouds, my other friend and i took notice of it, it wasnt moving fast or making any sort of noise it just seem to drift we then thought it may just be a strange cloud formation untill we saw it go in the opposite dirction of all of the other clouds. We continued to watch it for a period of 10 to 20 minutes, we began to try and rationalize the object away as a star or earth gas but its in michigan sothere is no fault line and there was no moon and overcast so it could not have been a planet,star,artificial satelite,etc. we could not figure out what this was it was obviouslt not a moderen air craft it didnt even look like any plane i have ever seen and there is no way it was some sort of test craft as there is not a single air base on this side of michigan.

This unidentifiable flying object vexed us and as We are just three of your average teenage boys out trick or treating this never even crossed are mind that could have been happening so i have decided to post this now a year later after the fact to find some answers. ((NUFORC Note: We believe that if the sighting occurred on Halloween, the date must have been October 31. We have amended the date here.

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Floating illuminated nighttime sphere west of Alma, Michigan 59 year old female medical assistant noticed odd light and woke her 66 year old retired pipefitter husband. They observed from door windows an orange (fire-colored) sphere, appearing about 3 feet in diameter, floating noiselessly about 4 feet above the ground, approximately 150 feet from their observing location. The sphere was floating near a water well located behind a building in their property and in front of a wooded area; no light sources are installed at that location, and lights from the state highway at the front of the property do not penetrate that area.

The denseness of the woods and the slope of a hill behind the sighting location precludes the possibility of neighbor's lighting sources being the source of this light. The observers watched the sphere for approximately one hour, as it shifted position within about a 10-foot area, including changes in elevation of about the same range, continuing to make no sound. After about an hour, the sphere slowly faded into nothing.

The observers are both keen observers of weather and surroundings, coming from farm backgrounds and being avid watchers of wildlife in their backyard and adjoining woods. They both describe the sphere as looking like a full autumn moon, except their was no full moon at the observation time and the sphere clearly illuminated only the surrounding buildings and trees. Neither observer felt that the light was a flashlight, and found no indications of trespassers after daylight.

Submission of this report by son of observers.

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Diamond like, greenish craft flew overhead into distance. There was a huge flash ovet the horizen. Me and 4 of my friends observed a diamond like craft, glowing a greenish blue, amerge from the bright flash.

It moved slowly across the sky, then upward at an angle towards the sky.

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Green lights,burning flame, plane like object! The object appeared heading from West to East 10-15 miles S. of Ovid MI. It was a plane like object with green lights, possibly a plane, to hard to tell.

It had a very bright orange trail of light behind the object. Way to low to be a metor. The flame behind the object was at least twice the size of the object wide, and at least 4 times the length.

I have seen other things that appeared to be strange. This was not strange. It looked like a craft of some kind that was on fire.

It was reported by several other people in the area to the local 911. ((NUFORC Note: Please see other reports for same date and time. PD)).

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At 7:39 pm Tuesday, October 2, I was driving east on Clyde Rd., which is a dirt road 4 miles north of Howell, MI. I was 1 mile west of where Latson Rd.

crosses Clyde Rd. Suddenly, overhead and left of the road I noticed a bright white fireball trailing a line of blue and white sparks descend at a rapid pace. It was traveling west to east, but was headed in a distinct downward trajectory--as opposed to the few others I've seen personally or on video that travel parallel to the horizon.

Its diameter was about the size of a pea held at arm's length. It was much larger and brighter than what is seen during a meteor shower (i.e.

, falling stars). As I said, I first noticed it through the top left of my windshield as it shot downward at what I guessed to be a 60 degree angle. It descended below the horizon.

I thought it might hit maybe 10 miles east of where I was, which would be northeast of the area around Hartland, MI, near the intersection of M-59 and US-23. I have heard of reference made to it on radio stations that it was a satellite reflection. No way! Coincidentally, this is the second such object I have seen from this exact location, which I also reported on this web site.

That sighting was a widely-reported trail of fireballs seen across the midwest about two years ago. ((NUFORC Note: We wonder whether the witness intended to indicate a time of 1939 hrs. (EDT) for this sighting.

We will check. We have amended the date here. PD)).

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Spotted Triangular object while exiting highway, almost crashed into cop, was not even pulled over. While exiting I-75 south onto M55 at Houghton Lake, in Michigan, a little after darkfall, I spotted a triangular off to my left side. The object was huge, silent and low, about 200-300 feet up and at least 70 feet accross.

There was a white light at each corner of the object. I could see the shape of the object against the night sky, which was most stunning, it was a triangle. It was moving north east.

I was so intently watching the object, that I did not notice that I was driving off the right side of the road. As I violently swerved back onto the exit ramp, I nearly hit a Michigan State Police suburban that was parked on the side of the road. I fully expected to be pulled over, and hoped the trooper had seen the abject also.

I pulled alongside the trooper, expecting a strange look, when I noticed his dome light was on, with a brief case open on his lap, frantically searching through the papers in the case. I waited for a couple moments at the stop sign waiting to be pulled over. After I was not arrested, I excitedly got back on the highway in the opposite, in persuit of the triangular craft.

I followed for about a half mile north, as the craft moved northeast and I lost sight as I went Due north. The direction the craft was heading was towards a military base in Grayling, Michigan. I am close to a local private pilot, I am quite sure the craft was headed toward restricted airspace.

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Davison Michigan's Cigars shaped space craft We were at a freinds farm in the outskirts of Flint Michigan. We were sitting at a bon fire I got up to go to the bathroom. I was looking up into the sky and I noticed a lite out of the corner of my eye.

The light wasn't moving it was just sitting in the woods. I thought it was just another house. Then it flickered bright lights at even intervals.

I called to my other two friends and to show them what was in the woods. The owner of the farm said that their wasn't another house for about 3 miles. We decided to check it out.

The lights were about 300 yards away. We walked for a while as we got to 100 yards the lights started to flicker at different intervals. Some red flashes came about every 15 seconds.

As we got closer we could see that it was some sort of object. It was Long and cigar shaped it looked as if it was made out of stainless steel. Their were no markings or windows.

there wasn't even any noise.As we got within 50 yards it started to move forward. As we followed it the object started to raise up into the air as it hit the top of the tree line the lights shut off.

It still had a faint luminus glow. Then it accelerated beyond our view in a southwest direction.

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It was very high in the sky too far for me to measure. It was reflecting in the sun but it wasn't moving. I looked about a few minutes later but it still hadn't moved.

((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

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A round circle of white light split off into 3 circles which rotated around location of original circle every 2 or 3 seconds. A round circle of white light was seen against a partially clouded sky.Impossible to determine altitude.

This circle split up into 3 other circles of approximately the same size as the original circle, and proceded to move outward at rapid speed in a clockwise direction, merging into one circle again at points equidistant from each other. After merging, the 3 circles appeared as one circle again and paused in this location for perhaps 1/2 second before repeating the same splitting up into a 3 circle pattern. This whole process took approximately 2 or 3 seconds for each repitative pattern.

This pattern was repeated over and over again for 45 minutes and then suddenly disappeared.The light pattern remained in the same location in the sky, that is to say, in the northeast about 45 degrees above the horizon. We have had no further sightings of this phenomenon as of today, Sept.

21st. We are two retired school teachers, sound of mind and body, and witnessed this event from our own backyard.

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It was a partly cloudy day. I was returning from a drive to Ludington, Michigan. I was at a traffic light waiting for it to change when I saw a white cigar shaped craft high above the clouds heading in an easterly direction.

I expressly looked for any type of wings to determine if it was a plane, but there wasn't any. I drove my vehicle over to the nearest gas station and got out. The object I observed was now heading south and vanished behind some cloud cover.

There were no trails of smoke or sound from the craft. I was really suprised nobody else saw this.

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Lound crash was heard and felt in the Sault. News has said a meteor landed about 40 miles north in Canada and or 1 landed in lake superior.