Traverse City, Michigan UFO Sightings in 2012

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Silent Glowing Orange Sphere Moving in a Straight Line Witnesed Over Traverse City, Michigan. I took my dog outside at 11:05 PM and was looking up in the night sky (a clear night, no wind) and witnessed a glowing orange ball of light moving fairly fast across the night sky over the Holiday Hills area of Traverse City, MI. It was a single orb, glowing solid orange, and it moved steady and fairly fast.

I witnessed it pass over from the treetops on my left to the treetops on my right cross the sky in a straight line. Because I did not have any other object to compare it with it is hard to tell what the altitude was, but it was not that high up in the air. It looked to be fairly low to the ground (no more than a few thousand feet).

It emitted no sounds that I could hear. This was a distinctive ball shape . not just a point of light.

It did not flicker, change colors, etc. It remained constant in brightness and was distinctively orange. I've seen many satellites, the ISS, northern lights, shooting stars, and so on.

I've been a lifelong observer of the night sky. I've never seen anything like this. Furthermore, I hold a Ph.

D. in philosophy, teach critical thinking, and am a skeptical person by nature. This was a really unique experience for me.

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White cigar shaped object with no evident exhaust trail or wings,following commercial airliner under blue skys. I went outside to have a cigarette in the summer of 2012. It was a beautiful summer day, blue skies, almost no clouds.

As I sat in a lawnchair, I looked skyward and I noticed a commercial airliner flying over high in the sky, I could see the two exhaust jets that are common behind airliners, being the middle of the day I didn’t think much about it. However moments later I realized something wasn’t right about what I just saw. I looked back up and realized I was seeing something I had not seen before.

Trailing the aircraft, at not that great of a distance was a white cylindrical cigar shaped object. It was not all that spectacular, but I realized I had never seen an object like this before. There were no wings, just a long white cylindrical cigar shaped object following the airliner through the sky.

There was also no visible exhaust coming from this object, it just appeared to be cruising through the sky. As I watched the airliner and the object the! y disappeared behind some trees, and I was not able to see the two again. A couple of days later I was fishing with my brother and I told him what I saw.

He said “no way I just watched a show and they were talking about unidentified flying objects, and your description was almost identical to what was on the show. It has been almost a year since I saw this object, and I never thought about reporting it until a few days ago. The reason being I happened to stumble upon your website and noticed the ease of making my report.

I know my encounter isn’t that spectacular, but I thought someone ought to know. My dates may not be correct but the time and circumstances of my sighting I am fairly confident in. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date may be approximate.

PD)).

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About 50 lights, similar to what satellites look like, travelled across the sky North to South in one large group. About 50 lights, similar to what satellites look like, travelled across the sky North to South. They were not in any sort of pattern, like a flock of geese would be, but appeared more random.

They did not zoom and go out like a falling star nor fireworks, but travelled in a steady pattern until out of view due to tree obstruction. Observers were patrons of a restaurant who stepped out for a smoke as well as patrons coming and going at that moment. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

PD)).