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Michigan UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 107 UFO sighting reports in Michigan from 2006 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (22 reports, 20.56% of total).
- August is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (19 reports, 17.76% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (22 reports, 20.56% of total).
- 09/02/06 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 3.74% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (39 reports, 36.45% of total).
Michigan UFO Sighting Reports in 2006
This is a sampling of 20 Michigan UFO reports from 2006, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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12-28-06 Blue white ball of light over rural area in southern Mi lasting seconds. My husband and I were driving home in a south to north direction in a rural area near our house.The weather was clear.
We both saw a blue white ball of light fall in a east to west direction in a slight arch. With arm outstretched it appeared the size of a thumbnail.We could not see where it may have gone.
We spend a lot of time watching the skys as we live far enough from the city of Adrian to not be bothered by city lights.I have taken investigation training from Mi Mufon in the last few years but am nolonger a current member.
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Fast moving light spotted from commercial jet. We were flying home from a trip to New York City and I looked out the window and I saw a very fast moving light with a trail of black smoke coming out the back of it. We watches it move up and down for about 5 to 10 mins and then it went down into the clowds and we lost sight of it but about 20 mins later we saw it come back up through the clowds and increes in speed untell we lost sight of it.
((NUFORC Note: Date of the event may be approximate. PD)).
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Colorful ligts and made of steel. A giant octagon with red, green, blue, and yellow lights. It made a retro kind of noise.
It looked as if it was made of steel. Everyone who was around got light headed and had major migranes. Also our cars stalled, even after it left.
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Strange triangular object gliding across the sky in Farmington Michigan. I was gazing out my window when i noticed a bright light approaching. I was thinking to myself, "Thats going way to slow to be a jet.
" I went out onto my patio and watched it approach. As it was coming, no sound was heard. It was not to high as it approached, it was rather low.
5000-6000 feet maybe. As it was directly over me it was triangular shaped with what looked to be two jets off of the back. There were white beacon lights on each edge of the triangular shape.
As it went over, it was completely silent. I knew it wasnt a jet because of its speed. It was going slow, almost hovering.
Then, it was right in the path of an oncoming jet plane, luckily it did move out of the way. Then, it picked up speed and made a southeasterly turn and picked up speed, then it went out of sight. I never did hear any sound from that triangular craft.
It was chilling. I know what i saw was a UFO.
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We watched a large, rectangle object w/double green lights, moving fast from S/E, stopped, changed to red lights and proceeded N/W. We had just finished feeding the horses and were enjoying the beautiful clear sky when we noticed a large rectangular/oblong UFO with double green lights down the sides and single lights at front and rear. It traveled silently from S/E to N/W at a very high speed, stopped suddenly, changed lights to red and moved on.
One of our party was very frightened, so we were forced to leave before it went out of sight. We couldn't find it when we got back to the house. None of us have ever seen anything like this before and can't emagine what it could have been -- we told the two children with us that it was Santa's sleigh.
(They didn't see the UFO, just we four adults.) Please tell me if anyone in this area sighted anything on that night?.
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As me and my two friends were looking at the stars we see a triangular shaped craft fly above our heads fast, and silent. We were all shocked then waited, then it came from the direction it went faster than before. Then just behind it it was being chased by a red lighted craft.
That was the last we heard of it untill i had seen on the news the next morning that a meteorite had crashed in Canada like 10min a way.
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flashing lights saucer flying away Last night me and my friend were walking home down merriman road and i look up and over to the left and i see flashes of light that looked like lightning flashes but there was no bolt or sound of thunder just flashes. I only saw the first one then like 30 seconds later i see another flash and the duration was longer this time my friend saw it too. We turn down my street walk for about another 30 seconds look up to the right and we see the object fly away.
Today at school i tell my friends at lunch and one of them said they saw the same thing and before i tell him when we saw it he says around 7:00. Then I tell someone else later on that day about it and he told me some girl in his 4th hour was talking about it too but she said she saw green lights.
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Rescue attempt of three hikers on Mount Hood, Oregon. As a recovery of a hiker's body was being broadcast on CNN at 6:51pm ET a fireball was seen above and behind Mount Hood as Chinook Helicopter hovered over the peak of Mount Hood. The fireball appeared to be located behind Mount Hood and above the summit and was seen for a couple of seconds live on the CNN broadcast.
The fireball appeared to be white in color and moved from left to right rapidly across the television screen.
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Observed bright white object heading west from the east, then abruptly turned to the north and climbed at an incredible speed and disa Observed bright white object with what appears to be debris or ice crystals at the "V" shaped tail heading west from the east, then abruptly turned to the north and climbed at an incredible speed and disappeared. Trail of object appeared to follow curvature of the earth. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch from Wallops Island, VA.
PD)).
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Circular, florescent object appeared for approximately 10 seconds. Driving on Pleasntview Rd.at 9:58 PM, a circular, florescent green object appeared for approximately 10 seconds.
It moved at an odd angle downward and disappeared before the tree line. The object appeared large and did not seem to be a star or aircraft lights.
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Bright light, cigar shaped, two sets of wings, little sound just at dusk over my farm. I first saw a very bright light to the west of me high in the sky, so I thought it was venus or another planet. Then I noticed that there were thick clouds and I couldn't see any stars, etc.
I watched as the light came closer and was coming directly over my farm. It was an extremely long round shape, like a cigar. Wings straight out that looked too little for the long craft.
Behind the first wings were some square shaped ones with the corners cut off. There was a space between the first regular wings and these wings. Then a regular tail, with center part straight up and the two parts on each side, not swept back or at an angle.
As it got almost over me I noticed two smaller lights on both wings, they were not bright at all. It was so round and long, that I thought if there were pilots in there, they would have to sit behind each other. I did hear a sound, but don't know if it was a jet or props.
No sonic boom. It looked to be a yucky green /gray color.Coming from Chicago area and traveling west.
I have looked at over 700 photos of airplanes on the internet and haven't found any that match this. The closest to it is the U 2 spy plane. But, it didn't have the bright light in the nose of the plane like this one.
Why would they need such a bright nose light. Also their wings were longer. This happened right after they gave up loooking for the mountain climbers in Oregon, so I thought it was a heat seeking plane? I saw no other lights.
Since I can't find this plane: thought perhaps you could help me figure out what it is. Can't get it out of my mind. so wrapped up in looking at it, didn't think to get my camera.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).
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We saw pyramid shaped objects in the sky. We were leaving my friends house after a party, when we looked up and saw some kind of pyramid shaped objects in the sky. We got closer, and they flew away at high rates of speed.
We never saw them again, but it was really cool and scary. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).
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All I can say is at first thought to be a star, then logic told me no. The object was to fast and much to low. It was a diamond shaped object with a round dot in the center.
That shap was masked by a bright flash in a square or rectangle glow. It was a bright yellow/orange in color and was going north. After more thought it almost felt as if an arial photo was being taken.
I have seen falling stars and plains befor and I have never seen anything like this. Just wanted to document it in case another source sees the same. True or not, it was strange.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Dream of UFO. Woke up to bright light. Heard door shut down down stairs.
Saw shadows in woods. I live in a 2 story appartment with my wife and 4 kids. Our bedroom is on the second story of the unit facing the back.
There is a small patch of woods in back of the appartment. My wife had a dream that she saw a cone shaped UFO flying. She said it was a very realistic dream.
When she woke up, she went to use the upstairs bathroom. As she was tinkling, she heard the basement door down-stairs shut. She was frightened and hurried back to bed.
She tried to wake me, but I was sound asleep. She laid there still with her eyes open. After a few minutes, there was a bright light that shined in the bedroom window.
She said it was so bright, it lit the room up like daylight. It lasted just a few seconds. after a minute she got up to look out the window.
She said see saw a couple of shadows moving around in the woods. She then woke me up and explained what she saw and heard. I looked out the window and went down-stairs but didn't see or hear anything.
The next day I looked out in the woods and the businesses behind the woods, but couldn't find anything. But I know my wife heard and saw things that there is no reasonable explaination for. She was 4 weeks pregnant at the time.
Thank you and God bless.
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It's all in the attached news article I never seen this but am reporting the article. Paper article of it: http://www.network54.
com/Forum/368338/thread/1167496220/last-1167498339/This+happen+about+10+miles+from+me.
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couldn't have been spotlights because there was no beams from below! 4 round shaped lights in circular motion and all meeting at a center point. Then the 4 seemed to split into 8 forms of light, meeting in the middle,then repeat the process.It went on for over an hour,then just vanished.
((NUFORC Note: Advertising light. PD)).
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i'm not sure if this is the right place to report this or not my husband and i was walking around our property we found circular indentations in the ground they were the size of a 3 lb coffee can and the size of a 5 gal bucket there was know foot prints around other then deere tracks i brought my son out today to show him the shapes on the ground and to ask him what he thought they were no explanation as i was walking across the field i found more of them in the sand where i waLKED YOU COULD SEEA INDENTATION IN THE GROUND OF 2 TO THREE INCHES BUT THE SHAPES WAS VERY ON THE GROUNDplease let me know what this might be? my name is l((name and number deleted)) ((NUFORC Note: We spoke with the witness, who sounds sincere to us. We have requested that she take photos of the alleged marks, and forward them to our Center. We do not know the date that the indentations were discovered; we have assigned an artificial date above.
PD)).
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The objects were doing some fancy manuvering as if to show off. This included very quick 90 Deg. turns.
The objects were out in space and I could not focus on them with the cheap field glasses I have. All I could see is that the sun was reflecting off of them. I live out in the country where the houses are very far apart and we have many farms.
The area I live in is a route for commercial aircraft crossing Michigan to places such as Milwaukee, Chicago, Mineapolis, etc. It is very common to see as many as eight aircraft crossing at any one time. I have been a sky watcher since I was a young kid and have seen many odd things but I have never whitnessed any of the objects do what I saw them do last night.
Four of them moved out into a larger perimeter, not symmetrical or anything, but seemed to move out to give the fifth some room. The fifth UFO really started to cut it up. It moved in a straight line very quickly and them stopped.
Then it moved back to where it started very quickly and stopped. Then it moved in a downward direction, stopped, then moved in an upward direction and stopped. It then did a few sharp 90 degree movements as if it were testing the craft to see if it were at peak performance or showing off.
It did some really wide circular and egg shaped manuvers that seemed to be a few miles in diameter. This looked like only a few inches to me but as far away as they were, I'm sure it was at least a few miles for them. It then started to do a random mixture of manuvers, accelerating very quickly and just having a ball, playing around.
This went on for a good hour with a few rests in between. I am obviously not the only one to observe this behavior because all of the commercial air traffic stopped crossing the normal route. I walked down off of my back porch into the middle of my back yard and could see a few of the aircraft doing a wide circle back in the direction of the Metro Airport and did not see any aircraft in the area of where the UFO was cutting up.
This is very unusual and it is rare not to see at least three aircraft at any one time crossing to the West or coming from the east. This tells me that the air traffic was well aware of this UFO behavior going on. I watched until I could barely see the UFO's anymore as they moved off to the West.
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Waterford MI sighting of triangle shaped craft I saw some sort of triangular craft with lights in different directions hovering over M-59 in Waterford near Pontiac Lk. Rd. I rolled down the window in my car to see if I could hear it, thinking it was a helicopter.
It was completely silent and just hovering in one spot maybe 70-100 feet off the ground. I was at a red light waiting at that intersection and when the light changed none of the cars went on green because they were all staring at it like me. I pulled off the road in disbelief and a few seconds later it hovered over M-59, and headed south over some buildings.
I watched it go completely out of sight, and then looked at everyone as they all looked at one another to see if everyone saw it. It looked about the size of a car from what I could tell. I'm completely weirded out now!.
Full Report Text:
Two bright gold light tails moving west toward Lake Michigan in early morning hours. Moved in formation, very quickly and low in sky. Out of a large window, I saw two gold/orange light trails moving very quickly in formation across the night sky.
The two light "tails" seemed to be flying together, 2,000 - 3,000 ft. above the groud. I live in an area where jet traffic is rare, and these two light trails acted unlike anything I've seen or imagined.
The light trails were moving west, over Lake Michigan. At that time of day, in this small town, I heard no sound associated with these lights, which stretched for over one hundred feet. I generally ruled out meteors, because they appeared to be too close to earth, and also appeared to be in formation.
Obviously, aircraft are on this path toward O'Hare hundreds of times per day, but these lights were WAY to close to the ground to be on approach, and there were no flashing lights. In fact, I saw no "craft", but just the tails, which were very bright and consistant lights. The tails did not spread out, or get weaker as they moved across the the sky, like I would expect a meteor to do, but rather they extended for a distance, then just quit shining.
Again, I have been on over 1,000 flights, and enjoy aviation and astronomy, and I've never seen anything that created a tail of light like this. The brightness of the light, the speed at which they moved, and the relative closeness to the ground, made me believe that I was seeing something different than I've ever seen before. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate.
PD)).
Michigan UFO Sightings From 2006 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 22 reported sightings | 20.56% of all reports |
Other | 12 reported sightings | 11.21% of all reports |
Triangle | 11 reported sightings | 10.28% of all reports |
Disk | 8 reported sightings | 7.48% of all reports |
Sphere | 7 reported sightings | 6.54% of all reports |
Oval | 5 reported sightings | 4.67% of all reports |
Unknown | 5 reported sightings | 4.67% of all reports |
Circle | 5 reported sightings | 4.67% of all reports |
Rectangle | 4 reported sightings | 3.74% of all reports |
Cigar | 4 reported sightings | 3.74% of all reports |
Formation | 3 reported sightings | 2.80% of all reports |
Cylinder | 3 reported sightings | 2.80% of all reports |
Fireball | 3 reported sightings | 2.80% of all reports |
Flash | 3 reported sightings | 2.80% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 1.87% of all reports |
Cone | 2 reported sightings | 1.87% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 1.87% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 0.93% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.93% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 0.93% of all reports |
Michigan UFO Sightings From 2006 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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August | 19 reported sightings | 17.76% of all reports |
December | 14 reported sightings | 13.08% of all reports |
July | 13 reported sightings | 12.15% of all reports |
June | 10 reported sightings | 9.35% of all reports |
September | 10 reported sightings | 9.35% of all reports |
October | 9 reported sightings | 8.41% of all reports |
March | 7 reported sightings | 6.54% of all reports |
February | 7 reported sightings | 6.54% of all reports |
April | 6 reported sightings | 5.61% of all reports |
January | 6 reported sightings | 5.61% of all reports |
May | 4 reported sightings | 3.74% of all reports |
November | 2 reported sightings | 1.87% of all reports |
Michigan UFO Sightings From 2006 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Sunday | 22 reported sightings | 20.56% of all reports |
Saturday | 21 reported sightings | 19.63% of all reports |
Thursday | 18 reported sightings | 16.82% of all reports |
Monday | 17 reported sightings | 15.89% of all reports |
Tuesday | 11 reported sightings | 10.28% of all reports |
Wednesday | 10 reported sightings | 9.35% of all reports |
Friday | 8 reported sightings | 7.48% of all reports |
Michigan UFO Sightings From 2006 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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09/02/06 | 4 reported sightings | 3.74% of all reports |
12/24/06 | 3 reported sightings | 2.80% of all reports |
02/20/06 | 3 reported sightings | 2.80% of all reports |
08/06/06 | 2 reported sightings | 1.87% of all reports |
03/15/06 | 2 reported sightings | 1.87% of all reports |
Michigan UFO Sightings From 2006 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 39 reported sightings | 36.45% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 26 reported sightings | 24.30% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 16 reported sightings | 14.95% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 10 reported sightings | 9.35% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 9 reported sightings | 8.41% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 7 reported sightings | 6.54% of all reports |
All Michigan Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2006
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Michigan, in 2006
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Michigan
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Michigan.