Michigan is full of UFO's, from numerous sightings over Lake Superior (especially around Saulte Ste. Marie) to the tale of a radio announcer who observed one over the freeway near the Detroit airport in 1978, so close that the radio host, Marc Avery, described it as "looking up into the belly of a craft." (read Close Encounter of the Detroit Kind from Weird Michigan on Google Books)
Michiganders continue to send their sightings to Weirdmichigan.com. One recent letter read:
Dear Weird Michigan,
A saw something strange coming home from my parents house on Brinton Rd, going south towards Airline Rd. - towards Mt. Pleasant on October 15th, 2006. I feel like I'm crazy just for typing this, but I can't get it to leave my head it was so bizzare! I was driving down Brinton Rd. when I looked up into the sky and saw a very large object flying over the trees. It looked to have bright orange for the top half and white for the bottom, but this was daytime, so I have no idea about flashing lights or if they were there. It was hanging very low, and it was making NO SOUND at all. None, and for something that low and large you should be able to hear... something, right?! That was especially creepy. I sped up as it quickly flew past the road I was on and over the trees. As I looked over though, it was gone. Completely out of site. There was no way it could of been an airplane, hanging that close to trees with no sound and going that fast.
I've never been a believer of UFO's, but after seeing that I might reconsider.
Thanks,
Katie
Michiganders may not know what UFO's are, but they know one when they see one. - Linda Godfrey
Linda S. Godfrey, author of that amazing compendium of the unexplained Weird Michigan. The last Wednesday of every month is a "Weird Wednesday" on Absolute Michigan, so be sure to stay tuned and send us or Linda your Michigan weirdness.
You can explore Michigan UFOs through Weird Michigan's UFO page and also Absolute Michigan keyword UFO, where links include the Michigan chapter of the Mutual UFO Network. For a cool read on Michigan's UFO wave in March of 1966, check out The Great Michigan UFO Chase from the Detroit News Rearview Mirror that looks at the Hillsdale & Dexter incidents. If you would like to spend your entire day watching videos, check out The Crystal Lake Cover-up which alleges to be an account of how the "swamp gas" explanation was coined in Michigan by Air Force UFO expert Dr. J. Allen Hynek and leads into a huge list of related videos.
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Hello,
My name is Outlet I just returned from my trip to Rothbury Mi. to the Rothbury music festival when my wife and I went last year we saw a few wierd things going on in the sky but not like this year actually thats how I found this site was looking for other ppl. who saw strange lights that were often found over the stages or flying from one stage to another I have pictures of two that I saw during the day which is harder to explain off as some kind of star like in the evenning sure some might have been stars although stars tend to go across the sky over the coarse of the night and be about the same size as one another these were bigger than any stars there and would come in hang out for about a half hour and either move and do the same or just be gone all together anyway hope I find some more stories about Rothbury and to all who do not believe in this sort of thing look at what the catholic church is saying about or space brotheren..... Peace Outlet
Outlet_5@yahoo.com
Laconia NH
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ive seen some odd things in my lucky moments an i was wondering is their a place here in michigan that is more active in sightings then where others have been almost a hot spot is what im looking for realy.
well i hope i get a message or some form of answer back thanks for your time in reading this
Dan
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I live in traverse city Michigan and one evening around 8:30 i was dropping my cousin off at her house in Williamsburg. we drove over a hill and saw a series of 4 or 5 lights hovering over the lake. They Were only there for about 5 seconds then disappeared from right to left one by one.
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That's funny, I saw a large UFO hovering over my back yard in Trenton, Michigan in 1973. The weirdest part about it is that it was there right in front of me but had something fake about it - the lights on top were rotating in red, white, and blue like a cop car. Anyway, as it turns out I'm on some kind of lifetime harassment list (more recently extreme harassment of the terrorism kind). I'm beginning to think it's not a coincidence. It looks like something out of Cannon's the Controllers - and the UFO was one of the early clues that it was something more along the lines of unethical and illegal experimentation.
Thankfully I didn't mention the UFO to my folks at that time, but it was the basis of many jokes among my friends and I for years to come. Now I guess I'm closer to an explanation.
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