UFO Sightings in Michigan
3,415 UFO sightings reported in Michigan since 1936, peaking in 2012 (236 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 3,415
- Span
- 1936–2022
- Peak year
- 2012 (236 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1936–2022 · peak 2012 (236 reports)
Top cities in Michigan
Grand Rapids
1955–2021 · peak 2014 (13 reports)
Detroit
1952–2021 · peak 2014 (11 reports)
Lansing
1970–2020 · peak 2016 (5 reports)
Flint
1966–2021 · peak 2013 (7 reports)
Warren
1970–2022 · peak 2013 (6 reports)
Ann Arbor
1962–2020 · peak 2012 (4 reports)
Kalamazoo
1977–2021 · peak 1995 (4 reports)
Farmington Hills
2000–2021 · peak 2020 (19 reports)
Holland
1994–2022 · peak 2016 (5 reports)
Canton
1994–2020 · peak 2015 (5 reports)
Jackson
1965–2022 · peak 2008 (3 reports)
Ypsilanti
1966–2020 · peak 2012 (9 reports)
Muskegon
1987–2022 · peak 2015 (6 reports)
Clinton Township
1980–2020 · peak 2010 (6 reports)
Sterling Heights
1999–2020 · peak 2007 (4 reports)
Traverse City
1984–2020 · peak 2012 (3 reports)
Monroe
1959–2022 · peak 2012 (9 reports)
Livonia
1978–2020 · peak 2012 (4 reports)
Waterford
1965–2021 · peak 2005 (3 reports)
Dearborn
1966–2021 · peak 2013 (3 reports)
Houghton · MI, USA
Very bright tilted strip of yellow light in northwestern sky above Hancock, Michigan, 11:00 06/05/19.
National City · MI, USA
Twin lights thru the trees, that twinkled and dimmed, disappeared and came back, for at least 20 min.
Durand · MI, USA
Starting in mid-March, 2019, and continuing on a regular basis up to this week, my family and I have noticed incredibly bright lights,
Lincoln Park · MI, USA
Dropped in flashed a few times and shot off 5 or 6 balls of light then shot back up extermly fast. ((anonymous report))
Orchard Lake · MI, USA
First saw 3 red lights traveling at same speed horizontally, not blinking or in any particular formation, low in the sky moving east to
Farmington Hills · MI, USA
MADAR Node 144
Washington twp · MI, USA
We seen this bright light we thought it was a plane but planes don't sit still it was about 1:47 at night when we seen the light it sat
Kingsley · MI, USA
White or translucent/oscillating donut shaped UFO observed hovering for 5 minutes before vanishing
Yale · MI, USA
Mid afternoon my girlfriend spotted a thin wide object that changed color and disappeared and re appeared and the either disappeared a
Sterling Heights · MI, USA
White oval meandering sky at noon
Lincoln · MI, USA
3 orange lit craft in v shape that appear to what seemed out of nowhere! Michigan
St. Clair Shores (over water) · MI, USA
E on 9 Mile over I-94 noticed a circular motion with white red lights bright moving to the SE towards the water. ((anonymous report))
Farmington Hills · MI, USA
MADAR Node 144
Tecumseh · MI, USA
I observed 3-4 green lights moving fast. Lights was in a straight line. ((NUFORC Note: String of Space Link satellites? PD))
hamburg · MI, USA
saw 3 lights in a line moving northeast. ((NUFORC Note: Space Link satellites. PD))
Stonington · MI, USA
Cigar shaped object with 3 bright lights underneath, in the front, followed by 3-4 lesser bright lights.
Gladwin · MI, USA
Line of three bright lights witnessed by 4. ((NUFORC Note: Space Link satellites. PD))
Flint · MI, USA
3 lights like orion's belt stationary for a moment then flew away
Park Township (Holland) · MI, USA
Unidentified flying object on tracked night sky images
Lansing · MI, USA
On April 9th at 7:05 AM I left from my home in Grand Ledge for work In Lansing, MI, by the Lansing Capitol Airport.
Southgate · MI, USA
Witnessed UFO in mid-afternoon on April 13, 2019.
Kentwood · MI, USA
An orange light crossed the sky over Kentwood, Mi. going southeast to northwest.
Battle Creek · MI, USA
Saw 2 flashes of bright white light at 160 degrees on the southern horizon. There are no clouds, a clear night, and no storms in the vi
Farmington Hills · MI, USA
Blinking lights ,spkere shaped
Ypsilanti · MI, USA
Rectangular object with a bright light to the left of it going straight into the clouds