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Michigan UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 101 UFO sighting reports in Michigan from 2023 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (15 reports, 14.85% of total).
- March is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (14 reports, 13.86% of total).
- Wednesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (19 reports, 18.81% of total).
- 03/01/23 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (7 reports, 6.93% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (49 reports, 48.51% of total).
Michigan UFO Sighting Reports in 2023
This is a sampling of 20 Michigan UFO reports from 2023, 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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A simple sighting which lasted one second. As I was driving southbound down Woodward avenue (Woodward avenue runs at an angle so it isn’t true south) , before coming to the nine mile intersection, I had my eyes on the road. A sphere approximately the size of a basketball, which had no color but was shining in a way you can imagine some white shining light bulb.
This object flew across in front of my vehicle , the object was flying westbound coming from eastbound at a very high speed I can not really estimate. (Keep in mind this road doesn’t run directly south but at an angle) The object appeared to have been flying straight from the east to the west but as it passed my vehicle it went up at 3 o’clock. I estimate it came in at 9 o clock from how I could see, but I did not see what angle it flew in on before it came in front of my vehicle.
I do not know if it came from the sky before I got to see it. it couldn’t have been more than above 7 feet above ground, I am estimating. it flew in the middle of my windshield view of my sedan and its distance away was easier to estimate than its height above ground.
It was 4-7 feet away from the front bumper end of my car. am only writing this because there were other people around but I do not know if anyone else noticed or filed a report as well. It flew by so fast, that it’s possible not many people were looking at the spot I was during my drive.
Unfortunately, I don’t have too much more information for you because i could not look up to my 2 or 3 o’clock in my car to follow the sphere due to obstacles, and I couldn’t of seen much because there were many buildings blocking the view of potential paths the sphere would have taken as it went up. Someone else may have had some sighting and I hope this fits into some puzzle of other sightings in the vicinity. This is the first time I’ve ever seen something like that, and I am surprised it was so small and in a populated area.
I really wish I could of gotten a better view or more time. I hope someone else did and this information helps.
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Saw a horseshoe shaped orange light with blue center hovering, it turned 180° on its axis and sped off gaining altitude 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.
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Multicolor craft seen over tree line in front of Michigan home. 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.
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Very bright multi colored pulsating irregular shaped stationary object or light 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.
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Lights in the sky appearing, moving around, and then disappearing 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.
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Greyish disc with two bright white lights one on each side on front circumference and multi colored red green lights 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.
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Caught on Ring camera, invisible to naked eye 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.
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Saw Formation of 6 UAPs in southwest 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.
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Ufo night sky: camera footage.
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Bright object with colored lights spotted on sky first still and then rapidly moving with erratic movements. 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.
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The craft was on a southeastern direction. The craft was at the altitude of passenger aircraft and traveling at the same speed as one. It didn’t make any noise, it is very quiet in Silverwood.
There weren’t any contrails. It didn’t have wings.
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This showed up on a photo I took, never saw it in real life, was only in one photo 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.
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V shaped lights, below clouds. Perfect v but lights were staggered just a little bit 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.
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Looking out back door and saw 2 white oblong shaped objects close to each other. 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.
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Cylinder above clouds going against the wind 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.
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At first it was stationary bright green light then flashed then flew away then showed up back at same spot but a red color this time 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.
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It was a clear night, full moon, what appeared to be two stars very bright in the sky, standing still, then started to move slowly 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.
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Stationary save for recording. Appeared again the next evening. Fast moving cloud also appeared with a light flash in middle.
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I have been witnessing strange lights almost every night sometimes in the sky, sometimes in the woods or on the ground. 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.
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there were about 15 of them in groups of three in each direction we looked in but high up in the sky, some of the lights were blinking 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.
Michigan UFO Sightings From 2023 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 | 15 reported sightings | 14.85% of all reports |
Orb | 11 reported sightings | 10.89% of all reports |
Unknown | 11 reported sightings | 10.89% of all reports |
Circle | 10 reported sightings | 9.90% of all reports |
Triangle | 9 reported sightings | 8.91% of all reports |
Other | 7 reported sightings | 6.93% of all reports |
Changing | 6 reported sightings | 5.94% of all reports |
Oval | 5 reported sightings | 4.95% of all reports |
Disk | 5 reported sightings | 4.95% of all reports |
Sphere | 4 reported sightings | 3.96% of all reports |
Cylinder | 3 reported sightings | 2.97% of all reports |
Cigar | 3 reported sightings | 2.97% of all reports |
Egg | 2 reported sightings | 1.98% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 1.98% of all reports |
Star | 2 reported sightings | 1.98% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 0.99% of all reports |
Cube | 1 reported sightings | 0.99% of all reports |
Cross | 1 reported sightings | 0.99% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 0.99% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 0.99% of all reports |
Michigan UFO Sightings From 2023 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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March | 14 reported sightings | 13.86% of all reports |
August | 12 reported sightings | 11.88% of all reports |
July | 12 reported sightings | 11.88% of all reports |
February | 11 reported sightings | 10.89% of all reports |
September | 10 reported sightings | 9.90% of all reports |
May | 9 reported sightings | 8.91% of all reports |
April | 9 reported sightings | 8.91% of all reports |
December | 7 reported sightings | 6.93% of all reports |
June | 6 reported sightings | 5.94% of all reports |
October | 5 reported sightings | 4.95% of all reports |
November | 4 reported sightings | 3.96% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 1.98% of all reports |
Michigan UFO Sightings From 2023 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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Wednesday | 19 reported sightings | 18.81% of all reports |
Sunday | 17 reported sightings | 16.83% of all reports |
Tuesday | 16 reported sightings | 15.84% of all reports |
Friday | 14 reported sightings | 13.86% of all reports |
Monday | 12 reported sightings | 11.88% of all reports |
Thursday | 12 reported sightings | 11.88% of all reports |
Saturday | 11 reported sightings | 10.89% of all reports |
Michigan UFO Sightings From 2023 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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03/01/23 | 7 reported sightings | 6.93% of all reports |
07/30/23 | 4 reported sightings | 3.96% of all reports |
07/11/23 | 2 reported sightings | 1.98% of all reports |
08/28/23 | 2 reported sightings | 1.98% of all reports |
04/11/23 | 2 reported sightings | 1.98% of all reports |
Michigan UFO Sightings From 2023 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 | 49 reported sightings | 48.51% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 17 reported sightings | 16.83% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 11 reported sightings | 10.89% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 9 reported sightings | 8.91% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 8 reported sightings | 7.92% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 7 reported sightings | 6.93% of all reports |
All Michigan Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2023
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Michigan, in 2023
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Michigan
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Michigan.