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Michigan UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 187 UFO sighting reports in Michigan from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (49 reports, 26.20% of total).
- April is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (42 reports, 22.46% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (34 reports, 18.18% of total).
- 04/24/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (8 reports, 4.28% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (79 reports, 42.25% of total).
Michigan UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 Michigan UFO reports from 2020, 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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MADAR Node 144.
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Fast moving, large orange orbs in the sky. In the Eastern sky, we saw a cluster of orange orbs/circles. They were pumpkin orange in color and sporadically placed in the sky, miles apart.
Each one moved from the South East sky towards the North East sky where they eventually disappeared. What really caught our eye was how fast they moved. They looked quite a distance away - almost like it could possibly be a plane or satellite, but they were moving much faster than any aircraft could possibly move.
Our next guess was potentially Chinese lanterns that must have been closer than we realized (the sky was dark and partially cloudy). However, the air was extremely wet and rainy, and we don't believe the fire inside the lanterns could have withstood the wet, breezy, and cloudy air without faltering. My father, a very logical and reasonable man was the one who first saw them and called my mom and I outside to see them after he had let our dog outside.
My mom just rolled her eyes and went back inside, but my dad and I stood there watching until they just disappeared. We've been researching and trying to deduce what the lights could be and the closest thing that we can find to what we saw are other UFO reports, which led us here.
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light in sky ,no sound Fast moving light towards west heading south in sky !!!.
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Saw a bright light hovering low over a piece of farmland, the light shifted to my right as I was facing it, stopped and then started to move slowly away, I glanced away for a second and then looked again in the direction of the light and it had dissapeared. Light was to far away to tell general shape and size, no blinking lights or any other significant markings other than it was bright yellow in color.
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Bright Flash on Fast Little Light Traveling over Little Traverse Bay I was walking my dog in the woods behind my apartment complex when I saw a strange phenomenon in the sky. Hiking up that trail is something that we do every day after 6 PM, after I come home from work with my boyfriend. The trail is up a hill a little ways which gives us a good view of the stars over Little Traverse Bay in Northern Michigan.
My dog finished her business and we were trying to hike back down a small hill. I looked in the sky at the stars, just because they are so beautiful and visible where we live, and it’s very clear outside tonight. I noticed one of the stars appeared to be moving at a noticeably rapid speed.
It looked much too far away to be a satellite, and did not have any colored lights around it besides the single golden, star-like color that it stayed. I also didn’t think of it as a satellite as it seemed so small, incredibly fast, and it looked as though it was traveling in a specific direction away from the Earth, rather than circli! ng it in orbit. It seemed to be traveling east over Lake Michigan.
The weirdest part was, after I looked at it and seemed to “make eye contact” with it, I noticed a very short, bright flash. I know I am not mistaken. It struck me immediately as odd, and something inside me made me feel as though it was flashing “hello” to me.
I waved back in sheer and utter confusion (and good humor) as the flying light flew out of sight. I kept getting this feeling that it flashed to me as though to acknowledge the fact that I was blatantly staring at it in utter awe. The best way to picture the flash would to pretend that you were driving behind a car in the dark, and their driving lights flashed on into brake lights for a split second.
My dog was acting very strange throughout all this as well. She entangled herself around a tree while sniffing about, and no matter what I could do, she would not go back around this tree to untangle herself. She is a very stubborn Pit-bull Terrier who can! definitely be “bull-headed” (no pun intended) at times.
I did! not wan t to look away from the flying object in the sky, and my dog seemed to not want me to look at it, or just pay attention to her. Even when I approached her to untangle her, she would not budge when I tried to untangle her. After I did, she stopped in front of me twice, watching me search the sky for the light.
She was probably just aggravated that I wasn’t paying attention to her. She’s a very strange dog with very creepy, color/changing and opalescent eyes when I shine lights into them or record it on video. As I’m typing this, she is spastically walking around our living room whining for no reason whatsoever.
I call her an “alien dog” jokingly all the time. There are some pretty outlandish theories about dogs and why they’re here on Earth, which I enjoy alluding to in humorous ways. Anyways.
once we finally walked back down the hill, I kept searching the sky in vigilance for the light. I think I saw it one last time before it disappeared out of view into the far, far away! sky. It was quite an interesting little experience; definitely one that I felt the need to share.
I have seen strange things in the sky a couple of times before, and unfortunately I did not have my phone on me or I definitely would have tried to record it. I’m sharing it here in hopes that maybe someone else noticed it too, or even saw the flash. Maybe it was a satellite, or a far-away airplane.
It just seemed too tiny and far away to be either, plus there were no colored flashing lights besides the single yellow flash that I saw. After I saw the flash, it did not flash again. At least not that I saw.
Maybe extraterrestrials in a ship were just passing by, waving, “hello” to my dog and I. One last thing that I would like to mention is the fact that I saw two “stars” directly to the left of where the flashing light traveled by as I was walking inside. They were directly above me, very high in the sky.
Even though they were so far away and small, I was still able to notice that the leftmost one had a small green light it was emitting, while the other on the right looked like a normal satellite with a reddish light accompanying it. I shrugged them off as faraway satellites, and they stayed completely still while I gazed upwards. Then I went inside to tell my boyfriend what I had seen.
He has seen inexplicable occurrences in the sky before as well, so it was nice to have an interested listening audience. Hopefully my “sighting” connects to another sighting in the area, and hopefully what was seen can he described similarly to what I saw. Any/all feedback on what I witnessed is extremely encouraged.
Thanks for reading my report!.
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Forty “Stars” In A Straight Line As They Headed Towards Mars from West to East While viewing Mars, which still appears yellow. I saw 40 “Stars” headed from the Southwest towards Mars. Each light was of the same brightness and were on the same plain as Mars, but nowhere near as bright as Mars, yet easy to see with the naked eye.
As they approached Mars, they were all equidistant from each other. They then each disappeared as they reached Mars and didn’t reappear. They all were on the same plain.
I held out my right hand. I spread my index finger and pinky finger as far apart as I could with my right arm stretched out. This is exactly how far apart they were from my view point.
The sky was totally clear. The moon had not risen yet. My house is out in the middle of the woods and it is extremely dark.
I was actually outside looking at The Milky Way and listening for wolves when these mysterious “Stars” appeared in my field of view. I have a large yard and there are no trees blocking the view. The lights came from the area of Saturn and Jupiter (Space App), but much higher off of the horizon.
Thus traveling West to East. I have seen satellites frequently which become brighter as they reflect sunlight to your location then quickly fade. Mostly Bi-Polar in nature.
These lights were the same brightness the entire time they crossed the night sky—West to East. I cannot express my amazement enough. No pulsing or anything but the same brightness.
White in color. They all looked exactly the same and in a straight line formation. I actually started counting as the fourth one “disappeared” as they headed directly to Mars.
They were on the same plain and didn’t deviate. Very flat across the sky. Forty “Stars”—Exactly.
If they were aircraft, why did they disappear?.
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Extremely bright mirror like light that left vapor trail then disappeared in clear sky I was travelling westbound on Weidman road when looking into the sky in a southwest direction,I saw what appeared to be a round very bright light that resembled the sun reflecting off a mirror in the sky at a long distance away. It appeared to be moving horizontally in a southerly direction and after about a minute it started leaving a short vapor trail like a jet might leave, but the vapor trail never got any longer and after about 2-3 more minutes the object and vapor trail just vanished with no evidence that they were there at all. The sky was clear and there were no clouds at all that it could have went behind.
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MADAR Node 144.
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outside taking pictures of the full moon between 5:30 - 6:00 pm (eastern time zone) slighting that looked at first like large arching fireworks; no sound; two large glowing circles formed an arch and then split and disappeared.
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Triangle object being followed by helicopter approximately 200 ft above US 23 I was driving home from work at about 8 pm and noticed a red light coming toward me in the sky and not far behind it was a bright white light. As the object got closer I could make out what the object looked like and even the beings inside. The shape of the object was triangular and it had a large red light in the bottom of it with 3 smaller lights in each of its corners on the bottom of the object.
After the object flew directly over myself and several other cars in front of me I saw a helicopter giving chase with its bright white spotlight giving chase.
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v shaped object over Grand Ledge, MI About 5am on 11/24/20 I saw a huge v shape object fly over I-96 in the Grand Ledge, MI area. It traveled slowly from west to east and had around 6-7 white lights and one red light on it. The red light and one white light were blinking.
Both the blinking lights were toward the center of the object. I heard nothing from the object but my loud truck probably would have kept me from hearing it anyway. The object was skinny towards the tips of the v and fat at the center (or point).
None of the other vehicles traveling around me seem to slow down or take notice. The bottom of the object was lit up due to the parking lot lights of the flying J truckstop and loves truckstop.
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Orange plasma orbs; Midland Mi -2 minute sighting West of MBS airspace Two bright orange orbs Rose from Southern Horizon, due West of Tri-city MBS airspace. Orbs separated to form column formation in line With viewer oriented to South. Orbs came to a halt With top most one at an approximate angle of extended Spread hand thumb tip to pinky tip with lower orb Half way down.
Retrieved field glasses and watched Bright orange plasma orbs until they simultaneously Dimmed and winked out in stationary position. Orbs made no noise during entire event and appeared to Be trailing GA aircraft coming from South passing over Midland.
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craft hovered in the sky, hard to make clear of the shape because it was dark, though I think triangular. Had lights like a vehicle's headlights and a dim orange light on the side. May have been pyramid-shaped.
We watched as it hovered, after about 20 seconds it completely vanished out of nowhere.
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MADAR Node 144.
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It was a rectangle in the sky it was only visible for about 5 minutes my wife and I witnessed were not sure what we were looking at.
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Strange Orange/Yellow Lights Sequential Aircraft North East Kalamazoo 1. I turned south on Sprinkle road at E. H Ave.
While driving south of E. H Ave. I noticed several aircraft, ( more than 3 less than 10) 5-8? These aircraft had orange/yellow “landing lights?” Oriented East to West or Southeast to Northwest.
The aircraft were spaced and sequenced uniformly some distance apart but uniform in appearance. 2. My original thought was that Chicago MDW or ORD was backed up with arrivals and something out of the ordinary was happening with air traffic flows.
This was definitely not a normal aircraft operation for this area. A scene to expect on a busy arrival time into a major airport but usually would not expect such traffic on a Sunday evening/night in the AZO area. 3.
As I drove South on Sprinkle Rd, the aircraft seemed lower and closer than first perceived. Too low to be traveling to MDW/ORD/GRR, and maybe too high and too many to be landing at AZO. Again, not a normal aircraft operation.
4. As I was driving south on Sprinkle I could not discern if the aircraft were actually moving. I was moving and had no stable reference to tell if the aircrafts were actually traveling, but I did assume so.
5. The orange/yellow “landing lights” were dominant. I believe I saw strobe/blinking white lights but was unsure if I saw green or red nav lights.
The orange/yellow “landing lights” were about the same color as the street lamps, which seem a bit off knowing that most aircraft have a more white/yellow appearance. The weather was clear VFR, scattering of light etc would not be a factor in my opinion. 6.
I was curious and this was strange enough that I decided to turn around to get a better view and understand what kind of aircraft they were. I turned right (West) on E. Main St.
and then turned around, Turned left (North/Northwest) again on Sprinkle. 7. Traveling North on Sprinkle Rd, I did not see the original 5-8 aircraft again, assuming that they moved out of line of sight.
I did see one aircraft of the same type description to the East of me and above me, as I traveled North. I would estimate between 5-7 miles away? Not exactly sure. However my view was hindered and I lost sight of the aircraft.
8. I decided to make a U-turn on Sprinkle Rd. There was no other vehicle traffic at that moment.
I turned around to head South again on Sprinkle Rd. I quickly acquired the aircraft to the east visually, and I pulled off to the right on the shoulder. Facing South on Sprinkle Rd.
I had my headlights on and turned my emergency flashers on as there was now a line of Southbound vehicle traffic. 9. I rolled down my driver-side window to listen for helicopter blades or maybe UAV blades/ noise.
The aircraft did not appear to be moving at any significant rate across the ground. The Southbound vehicle traffic obscured sounds. I did not hear or perceive any aircraft noise.
I observed the aircraft for perhaps 1-2 mins. 10. After 1-2 mins the aircraft lights were turned off and completely disappeared.
I did not see the aircraft turn away, there were no position lights, I did not see or hear any aircraft. 11. I waited and observed the area of the sky for a couple more minutes, thinking that the aircraft may turn its lights back on.
12. As I was watching the area, I noticed a small black motion blur quite close just to the east of and across Sprinkle Rd. Perhaps 50-100 yards east of Sprinkle Rd.
There was a tree line. At first I thought it was just a misperception, but as I kept looking in that direction, I noticed a parachute . 13.
This observation was at my 9 oclock, position or nearly 90 degrees from my driver-side window. 14. The parachute was not a steerable type, It was a round ‘drifter’ type.
It also appeared to be too small to support a human jump. Something that supported a small payload. I did not see the payload 15.
At that time I was confused and scared. Seeing a small parachute falling when and where it did, just did not compute for me. I had no idea what it was carrying etc.
16. I decided to quickly get the heck out of there and continued to drive South on Sprinkle with no further observations of aircraft or other aircraft or anomalies. Although a strange encounter, It is very likely that this was some sort of explainable event.
Perhaps the military or National Guard etc, were performing maneuvers? I find it likely that the aircraft were perhaps helicopters. I do know that these aircraft were not like any police or search helicopters with search lights, I have witnessed those aircraft before and this bears no resemblance. I just want to put this event on record to perhaps be investigated and explained.
I am a professional pilot with vast experience in aviation. I have no agenda, I am by nature a skeptic, and if I were to guess this is an explainable event but thought it out of the ordinary. But, by definition, it was a Un-identified Flying Objects event for me.
Thank-you for reading and taking this report into account.
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Entity appeared night sky changed 4 times At approximately 6:47 p.m. On November 4, 2020 in an attempt to capture a picture of the night sky.
After noting two bright stars one orange and one white. The orange one was in the bottom left position while the white was top right. As I was snapping the photo.
What I can only describe as an Aliens finger ( White at the base, grey I’m the middle. Almost tentacle like fat at the base and extremely narrow at the top) appeared in front of my lens. Stealing the focus of my camera and cause the stars in the first photo to be very dull but still readable as Orange on the Bottom and white on top.
It curled down as the camera snapped the picture and what’s caught is a triangular white blur. Which to me was the knuckle of the finger that’s been curled to where the tip touches the palm. After looking down and seeing what I thought I’d imagined was actually in the photo I set off to the house frightened.
I recounted this to my brother who I’d been on the phone with the whole time. After getting some courage I opened the back door to look at the night sky again to find that the two objects were gone. I shut the door and exclaimed to my brother that the stars I’d seen and photographed were gone.
He wanted proof so I opened the door to take another photo and they were back! But not in the same order this time the orange was at the top and white at the bottom. I snapped the picture and once again exclaimed to my brother what had happened. After hearing this excitement my Father in law came out of the house into the garage and asked what was going on.
I explained we went out and as you can see in the third photo the objects were gone again and the sky was black. [email protected].
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Walking home from store with my granddaughter . The UFO pop out of black somke there was one more UFO but it was different I have pictures of it . I have pictures of more UFO activities.
Was not the first time I see one first time in the 90.i have over 50 different pictures all together different years.
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MADAR Node 144.
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String of lights on top of cigar share light beam String of lights seen moving from W to SSW slowly. There were a total of 15 square bright lights on top of a cigar shape light beam moving slowly behind a lead aircraft.
Michigan UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 49 reported sightings | 26.20% of all reports |
Circle | 37 reported sightings | 19.79% of all reports |
Triangle | 13 reported sightings | 6.95% of all reports |
Formation | 11 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Unknown | 9 reported sightings | 4.81% of all reports |
Other | 8 reported sightings | 4.28% of all reports |
Fireball | 6 reported sightings | 3.21% of all reports |
Disk | 5 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
Sphere | 5 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
Rectangle | 4 reported sightings | 2.14% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 1.60% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 1.07% of all reports |
Chevron | 2 reported sightings | 1.07% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 1.07% of all reports |
Cigar | 2 reported sightings | 1.07% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 1.07% of all reports |
Cross | 1 reported sightings | 0.53% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 0.53% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 0.53% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.53% of all reports |
Michigan UFO Sightings From 2020 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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April | 42 reported sightings | 22.46% of all reports |
March | 23 reported sightings | 12.30% of all reports |
October | 17 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
May | 16 reported sightings | 8.56% of all reports |
February | 16 reported sightings | 8.56% of all reports |
July | 14 reported sightings | 7.49% of all reports |
August | 13 reported sightings | 6.95% of all reports |
November | 12 reported sightings | 6.42% of all reports |
September | 10 reported sightings | 5.35% of all reports |
January | 10 reported sightings | 5.35% of all reports |
December | 7 reported sightings | 3.74% of all reports |
June | 7 reported sightings | 3.74% of all reports |
Michigan UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 34 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Saturday | 32 reported sightings | 17.11% of all reports |
Friday | 32 reported sightings | 17.11% of all reports |
Thursday | 27 reported sightings | 14.44% of all reports |
Wednesday | 22 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Tuesday | 22 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Monday | 18 reported sightings | 9.63% of all reports |
Michigan UFO Sightings From 2020 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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04/24/20 | 8 reported sightings | 4.28% of all reports |
04/26/20 | 6 reported sightings | 3.21% of all reports |
04/16/20 | 6 reported sightings | 3.21% of all reports |
03/06/20 | 5 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
04/17/20 | 5 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
Michigan UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 79 reported sightings | 42.25% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 29 reported sightings | 15.51% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 28 reported sightings | 14.97% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 24 reported sightings | 12.83% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 18 reported sightings | 9.63% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 9 reported sightings | 4.81% of all reports |
All Michigan Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Michigan, in 2020
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Michigan
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Michigan.