66 UFO Sightings In Michigan In 2017: Get The Full List

METRO DETROIT, MI — On July 15, a a large, square craft with about a dozen lights was reported over Clinton Township before it vanished into a portal that opened in the sky. Was the sighting for a real or a hoax? It’s probably the latter, according to the Seattle-based National UFO Reporting Center, or NUFORC, which runs a website that tracks reports of unexplained objects in the skies over Michigan and the rest of the country.

The person who claimed to see the aircraft sucked into the portal gave a bogus email address and phony telephone number and did not forward promised photographic evidence showing both the craft and the portal before the vanished. That makes the report sketchy, NUFORC said.

But some other sightings aren’t summarily dismissed by NUFORC — though they haven’t been confirmed, either. So far this month, reports of brightly colored lights have come from Royal Oak, Dearborn, Plymouth and Sterling Heights. They weren’t fireworks, the reporters insisted, but at least once of the sightings may have been the planet Venus.

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UFO sightings have been common through the decades after the the first well-known report in 1947 of a UFO over Mount Rainier in Washington, that one reported by a businessman piloting a small plane who claimed to see nine high-speed, crescent-shaped objects zooming along at several thousand miles per hour “like saucers skipping on water.”

Though the objects Kenneth Arnold claimed to see weren’t saucer-shaped at all, his analogy led the popularization of the term “flying saucers.” And since then, Americans have been more or less obsessed with the idea that alien life is among us.

So far this year, there have been 66 UFO sightings in Michigan. Here are some more from the Metro Detroit area.

Allen Park, seen on June 15 and reported a day later: A man said he and his wife were watching “Orange Is the New Black” on June 15 when they went outside for a smoke break and saw a noiseless craft darting across the sky.

“We noticed a red light that would have a blue light shine as well,” the man wrote. “The red light was extremely bright and (we) could only see the blue light when the object would turn slightly. … The object would move to the left a little, then stay stationary, then it (would) move again.”

Plymouth, seen on July 7 and reported the following day: Another reporter NUFORC said chose to remain anonymous and failed to leave contact information reported driving on a road about 40 mph when “out of nowhere, a strange looking, small circle appears and it’s moving too fast for a plane.”

Dearborn, seen and reported on July 4: The individual who reported seeing bright, slow moving orange fireballs in the sky around 11:25 also chose anonymity, NUFORC said. Fireworks were going on, “but this was different,” the poster said.

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“It slowly moved up and over my house until it disappeared into the clouds above my house. I then noticed another light exactly like the first moving exactly in the same direction and at the same rate of speed,” the individual wrote. “The second one disappeared somewhere up above my house.

“I thought it was very strange, so I came inside to Google it, to figure out what it might be. That's when I found the many other reports of the same type of sighting.”

Sterling Heights seen on July 9 and reported the following day: A woman said bright blue and teal lights were “jumping and diving” in the skies for five or 10 minutes, beginning about 10 p.m. At first, she thought the lights were from a plane, but they weren’t flashing.

“At this time, I called my husband over to come check it out but he blew me off,” she wrote. “After about a minute or so of the bright blue/teal light just stationary, it quickly shot up a few feet and stopped. I again yelled for my husband to come see it, explaining that the red light disappeared and the blue light just shot up quickly.

“As my husband walked over to see, the blue light jumped quickly to the left a few feet and then about 15-20 seconds later it dropped or shot or dove down towards the ground in a diagonal direction,” she wrote. “As it dove towards the ground, there was a buzz or zip sound, and then the it was gone, just vanished.”

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