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)
Blanchard · MI, USA
I'm still seeing those flickering lights, and according to the reports, I'm not alone!!! This time the colors are more vivid!!!!
Clinton Township · MI, USA
Large, intense fiery orange light centered in a chevron, moving silently and slowly in the low night sky.
Pickney · MI, USA
fiery orange orb
Saline · MI, USA
Southeast sky early in the evening, Blue, Green and Red Lights. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Sirius?? PD))
Gregory · MI, USA
four lights in the sky.
Blanchard · MI, USA
They look like stars, but flicker! They accelerate very fast, & brake just the same! Move weird & come in 3's arranged in a triangle
Dexter · MI, USA
12/11/09 Dexter, Michigan 20:00 hr 4 lg brightly lit objects moved E to W across the N. horizen, NO SOUND able to turn instantaneously
Temperence · MI, USA
12/29/09 1:00 am temperence,michigan light 2 min. Seen a BRIGHT light over temperence,michigan from my front deck of my home.
Rockford · MI, USA
very many extraordinary lights over bostwick lake for the past week every night ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD))
Beverly Hills · MI, USA
Two stationary bright objects, there one minute, gone the next!
Canton · MI, USA
Triangular shaped UFO with lights at corners hovering at cloud height over home
Plymouth · MI, USA
I was standing on a sidewalk near salem high school where i saw a triangular shaped craft slowly gliding right over my head. my mom jus
Avoca · MI, USA
Seen a 3 light formation blinking in the sky until it slowly moved off and vanished
Detroit · MI, USA
1 craft sighted in braod daylight, I have pics I don't see where to upload.
Ft. Gratiot · MI, USA
Cigar shape, brightlights, very fast, low.
L'Anse (Alberta Village) · MI, USA
A white orb traveled 1/4 of the sky. It came to rest Se of the logging town of Alberta. It disappeared 1 1/2 hours later. Completely.
Harrison Twp. · MI, USA
Low flying unidentifiable orange object with orange haze
Harrisville · MI, USA
Orange oscillating light object silently tracks South to north near Sturgeon Point MI.
St. Johns · MI, USA
A red fiery or lit strobe moved slowly past my treetops.
Grosse Pointe · MI, USA
Orange Fiery orb looking object in the sky
Oxford · MI, USA
Bright, starlike, round object, rising from eastern horizon. Stopped moved left and right. Became brighter. "Winked out",
Dearborn Heights · MI, USA
2 star like ufos over dearborn heights moving east to west. ((NUFORC Note: ISS and Space Shuttle in formation. PD))
Millington · MI, USA
2 large lit objects 1 in front of other, stationary, then moving NE. ((NUFORC Note: ISS and Space Shuttle in formation. PD))
Jackson · MI, USA
Two perfect lights move in perfect formation with no sound across the sky. ((NUFORC Note: ISS and Space Shuttle in formation. PD))
Holland · MI, USA
2 star like objects heading east as if one directly followed other. ((NUFORC Note: ISS and Space Shuttle in formation. PD))