State Report
UFO Sightings in Michigan
5,797 sightings on record from 1936 to 2023, drawn from the National UFO Reporting Center databank.
Total sightings
5,797
Share of US total
2.7%
Peak year
2012
454 reports
Top shape
Light
1,140 reports
Years active
87
Sightings by decade
reports / decadeTop shapes reported
all-timeLatest 20 sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | Shape | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-15 | Capac | light | 1 minute | Saw a horseshoe shaped orange light with blue center hovering, it turned 180° on its axis and sped off gaining altitude |
| 2023-12-14 | Smiths Creek | circle | 1-2 hours | Multicolor craft seen over tree line in front of Michigan home. |
| 2023-12-14 | Brownstown Charter Township | unknown | At least 10 minutes | Very bright multi colored pulsating irregular shaped stationary object or light |
| 2023-12-14 | Almont | light | 1 hour | Lights in the sky appearing, moving around, and then disappearing |
| 2023-12-08 | Lowell | disk | A few minutes | Greyish disc with two bright white lights one on each side on front circumference and multi colored red green lights |
| 2023-12-08 | Macomb | egg | At least 20 minutes | Caught on Ring camera, invisible to naked eye |
| 2023-11-28 | Lawrence | formation | 1.5 min - 2.5 min | Saw Formation of 6 UAPs in southwest Mi |
| 2023-11-13 | Delta Charter Township | orb | 3 minutes | Ufo night sky: camera footage |
| 2023-11-12 | Ann Arbor | circle | 15min | Bright object with colored lights spotted on sky first still and then rapidly moving with erratic movements. |
| 2023-11-01 | Silverwood | egg | 5 minutes | The craft was on a southeastern direction. The craft was at the altitude of passenger aircraft and traveling at the same... |
| 2023-10-20 | Marquette | other | Showed up on photo | This showed up on a photo I took, never saw it in real life, was only in one photo |
| 2023-10-18 | Sand lake | other | Seconds | V shaped lights, below clouds. Perfect v but lights were staggered just a little bit |
| 2023-10-14 | TAYLOR | unknown | 4 minutes | Looking out back door and saw 2 white oblong shaped objects close to each other. |
| 2023-10-06 | Grand rapids | cylinder | 20 seconds | Cylinder above clouds going against the wind |
| 2023-10-01 | Hamtramck | unknown | 5-10 minutes maybe | At first it was stationary bright green light then flashed then flew away then showed up back at same spot but a red... |
| 2023-09-30 | South Haven Michigan | circle | 20 mins | It was a clear night, full moon, what appeared to be two stars very bright in the sky, standing still, then started to... |
| 2023-09-25 | Delta Township | star | 3 hours | Stationary save for recording. Appeared again the next evening. Fast moving cloud also appeared with a light flash in... |
| 2023-09-16 | Sagola | flash | Whole past year | I have been witnessing strange lights almost every night sometimes in the sky, sometimes in the woods or on the ground. |
| 2023-09-13 | Eastpointe | light | between 8:40 pm - 9:10 pm | there were about 15 of them in groups of three in each direction we looked in but high up in the sky, some of the lights... |
| 2023-09-13 | Petoskey | orb | >31 minutes | My wife and I spotted the object watching high altitude geese. I started taking pictures and videos and observed with... |