Several recent UFO reports from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database have described what appears to be the same object - a cluster of three spheres that seem to be attached. Reports were filed on these objects near Dallas, TX, April 22, Crockett, TX, April 23, Kansas City, KS, June 16, and from Illinois on June 20.


Comment: These sightings can be read in these two articles.


A Michigan report for June 28 may be related as the witness, driving along the Southfield freeway, states that "I looked up and saw that it was a cluster of lights." The object was described as silent and hovering.

I am also including a California report below from June 26, where the witness describes the object as "orange, glowing appearance, moving in straight line, not too fast but elegantly, made up of circular round looking light sources."

Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade. If Michigan MUFON reports back on this case, I will update this page.

The following reports are unedited. You can read my selected cases by type of UFO report at the UFO Traffic Report index page.

Michigan, June 28, 2009 - driving to work saw round bright lights

I was driving to work going north bound on the Southfield freeway at 11:10 pm when I noticed this bright light in the sky to the west of the freeway.

I was just about to the Outerdrive exit and I looked up and saw that it was a cluster of lights.

I thought at first it was a plane but it didn't have the blinking lights a plane does and the lights weren't spaced right. I thought maybe it was a helicopter because it had a cluster of lights and then a little further away there was another one. So I turned my radio down thinking maybe it was a helicopter going to the hospital but I didn't hear any sound plus it wasn't moving.

As the free way turned I noticed that the lights were spread out evenly. There were three maybe four of them. They were bright. Too bright for a plane or helicopter and they were really white. They were really low in the sky too.

As I approached the Oakwood exit I noticed a yellow dot shoot across the sky right through the lights. It stopped a short ways after the lights and then just disappeared. The dot moved too fast for anything I've ever seen before. I lost the lights behind some trees when I got off at the Oakwood exit. I kept looking but didn't even see a glimpse of them anywhere.

I got to work at the hospital about 11:15pm. I went up to my floor and scanned the sky but didn't see anything abnormal. Later that night I was with one of my patients and she asked me if I had seen the lights in the sky and she pointed out her window in the direction of the freeway. I asked her what they looked like and she described them almost exactly as I had only she didn't mention a yellow dot. She said she'd never witnessed anything like that in her life. She said it made her feel weird.

I never told her that I saw the lights or any details of my experience. When I was on the freeway I didn't feel scared or weirded out. I just felt curious. I wanted to know what the lights were.

California, June 26, 2009 - Orange glowing, straight line moving, looked like a few circles glowing together, disappeared into haze.

After returning from NYC on a business trip, I had my mom and girlfriend over for a BBQ and some time in the pool enjoying the sun (108F that day) When the sun finally set my GF and I enjoyed some quality time sitting on my extended patio looking up into the night sky.

I was remembering my childhood and those summer nights spent hunting for satellites, looking for planets, and watching the jets come into SFO doing their Modesto Three Arrivals of which I was just a part of as I recently flew in on a Delta flight from JFK-SFO. The coolest thing was actually counting 8 satellites of which 3 were circumpolar. My GF is a nurse and had to get up early on Monday morning so she asked if I wouldn't mind if she laid down for a bit because she was tired. So she goes in the house, I grab my favourite recliner and lay back to count more satellites. I had an idea to grab my night vision binoculars and did. I love the night sky and have been looking at it since I was a boy. I decided to put them away after about ten minutes and went back to just looking straight up with my naked eye.

Just then out of the corner of my eye I see something that grabs my attention. At first I thought, what a big bird that is, then after looking at it more intensely I decided it was a bunch of orange balloons drifting from NW to SW. As I looked more I realized that there was not any wind because of the record 108 temps we had that day.

So, I stared and stared even saying out loud, "What the Hell is that?" What I saw had fuzzy edges, but also like it was made up of objects that were round glowing orange like when metal is heated. It moved so elegant and so straight. Not fast, and not too high because of the duration that I saw it (25 secs) also, it did not disappear of trees but rather into the haze of the night sky.

Funny thing, satellites never go all the way across the sky because at some point they are no longer in a direct path of the sun to reflect light. I was so excited with seeing this thing that I ran into the house and woke my GF up telling her every detail. Again, orange, glowing appearance, moving in straight line, not too fast but elegantly, made up of circular round looking light sources, and disappeared into the haze of the sky. I'd like to hear any explanation available for what this thing was. I'm a private pilot and an amateur astronomer enthusiast and I have NEVER seen anything like this.