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Uhm, Did You See a UFO Over Clinton Township?

The Michigan chapter of the Mutual UFO Network is investigating reported sighting, which the group says may be easily explained.

Clinton Township, MI — Did you see a circular-shaped unidentified flying object hovering about 100 feet off the ground earlier this month?

A witness in Clinton Township reported a sighting to the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, on June 2, and said the UFO was about 100 feet away, according to Open Minds TV.

The witness reported seeing the phenomenon, documented in Case No. 76893, about 2:15 a.m. on June 3, while watching over items that would be sold the following day in a yard sale.

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“I just looked up — more so in an easterly direction — maybe 100 feet above the ground and noticed a bright white, circular-shaped object with a thin line encircling the light,” the man said.

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The object quickly disappeared, he said.

“It stayed there for a second or two and then just vanished,” he said.


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Michigan MUFON Chief Investigator Daniel Snow is investigating. According to the report, most UFO sightings are quickly dismissed as something natural or man-made.

Image credit: This photo of a UFO taken in upstate New York on April 19, 2008, by Chris Ford via Flickr / Creative Commons

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