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)
St. Joseph · MI, USA
Rolling light in sky puzzling
Bay City · MI, USA
Disk, at night, left stream of lights, time lapse.
Mayville · MI, USA
Non Blinking yellow light moves quickly across the sky
Shelby Township · MI, USA
Several lighted, floating objects in Shelby Twp., MI
Wayland · MI, USA
Bright orange bobbing light
Croswell · MI, USA
orb accelerating and making 90 degree turns.
Madison Heights · MI, USA
possible aurora aircraft sighting?
Milan · MI, USA
Rotating object, looked at first like a star. Rotating lights of red, white, green. ((NUFORC Note: Twinkling star?? PD))
LaSalle · MI, USA
Until you see one it is hard to believe
Harbor Springs · MI, USA
moving planet-like object just disappears
Rochester · MI, USA
A triangular craft, disguised as three stars, slowly glided for 20 secs untill it went into some cloud coverage. HUGE!!
Portage · MI, USA
Silver Sphere weaving in and out of a "contral"
Troy/Rochester Hills · MI, USA
Small silent UFO witnessed by 6 people flying extremely close to the ground in Troy, Michigan on Cinco De Mayo 2005.
Troy · MI, USA
A blueish green ball of light that took off on an upward flight in a matter of seconds and disappeared.
Whittemore · MI, USA
Sightings in iosco county michigan by 4 diffrent people
Romulus · MI, USA
Object was stationary, then moved to the right, stopped, one more move to right, stopped then vanished.
Orchard Lake · MI, USA
Nothing I have ever seen could fly in that exact formation and there was absolutely no sound
Lake Leelanau · MI, USA
Bright blue light over Lake Leelanau
Petoskey · MI, USA
I am a Christian Missionary. I've spent nearly a year debating what I saw; trying to conclude that it was actually cause by human hand
Ishpeming · MI, USA
Trianglular object with blue lights seen with binoculars and telescope
Auburn Hills · MI, USA
Five Dancing Dots
Portage · MI, USA
Unusual fog, complete silence with strobing light hovering over road and lake early in the morning.
Flint · MI, USA
Red Object, fast moving craft that did not appear to follow the FAA rules.
Rose City · MI, USA
Bright light dimmed to small red dot.
Rockford · MI, USA
I saw two saucer shaped objects with lights going around the middle of them fly over head and land in the woods behind my house.