Michigan UFO Sightings
07-??-1878 Michigan
Several members of a dinner party observed a luminous object about 300 yards in length hovering above the skyline. It was described as very beautiful with the color of a red-hot stove.
04-13-1897 Pennfield, MI
Mr. and Mrs. George Parks observed a luminous craft emitting a low hum, drop an object into the field. Mr. Parks dug up the fallen object; it had apparently buried itself. The object was an aluminum turbine which Mr. Parks displayed as evidence.
09-12-1906 Flint, MI
On an evening stroll, Mr. G. Fowles and two female companions observed two strangely dressed men on the footpath. Fowles called out to them, only to have them levitate over the treetops out of view.
07-07-1947 Pontiac, MI
Mr. Albert Weaver photographed two small metallic looking discs in the sky overhead. They were of a dark shiny color.
06-17-1949 Battle Creak, MI
Mr. Lloyd Sanders photographed a self-luminous triangular or beehive shaped UFO rising at high speed. No other details are available.
It moved ever so slowly through the night sky like a glowing, spiraling,one-armed pinwheel. Wherever it came from, whatever it was, the UFO gave 110 Metro Detroit stargazers more than they bargained for Tuesday night.It also spawned hundreds of calls of inquiry around the country Wednesday after sightings of the mysterious object elsewhere in Michigan and in nearly every other state east of the Mississippi. Residents of Kentucky's Clark County, east of Lexington, heard a boom accompany the show."Some people said they saw great big ball of fire," said Clark County Deputy Larry Lawson. "The people said their homes shook and windows vibrated as if there had been an explosion or earthquake, but it was just for just a very few seconds. They said the whole sky lit up."All these people weren't imagining or seeing things. Some of them werevery terrified over it right after it happened. Some said they smelled something like gunpowder."The object was seen by Detroit skywatchers who had gathered at the Troy Outdoor Education Center's farm for an outdoor lecture and a look at the annual Perseid meteor shower. The campfire was blazing and marsh-mallows were roasting when suddenly one of the attendees stood up, pointed up into the southeast sky and shouted, "What is that?"
5/10/1989 FARMINGTON HILLS, MI. Midnite Two witnesses Large greenish-silver dasc-shaped object, turned on end and paced car for about two hours. Car radio stopped working and electrical system quit working.
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Skywatch’s Doug Parrish reports that at 10:31 p.m. ET on May 19, 1998 a point of light the size of a star was seen moving slowly across the sky above Howell, MI, (55 miles NW of Detroit). The altitude of the light was approximately 85 degrees in the NE sky, almost overhead. Upon being observed, the point of light immediately started to glow brighter until in less than 2 seconds time it had become as bright as, if not brighter than, the sun at noon. Since it was only a point of light, it did not cast any appreciable shadow on the residential landscape. Once I had "acknowledged" the light as having been seen, it started to diminish in brightness and in a time span of five seconds, it had dimmed into invisibility. The light was moving slowly directly south. The entire observation lasted less than 10 seconds. The distance covered in that time was equivalent to the thumb and the index finger held at arm's length and spread apart by 7 inches. The temperature was 73 degrees with a clear sky. No noise was heard and there were no running lights. The sun had set about 8:55 p.m., so I immediately suspected the transpolar satellite, but satellites slip in and out of the Earth's shadow over a much greater expanse of sky. This is the second such observation of almost exactly the same nature and description, and even seen in the same spot in the sky. The first observation was on Labor Day evening in September, 1997. Thanks to Doug Parrish Michigan Director / Skywatch International