Two Michigan witnesses at Port Austin had two encounters with a "translucent" UFO, then watched as the points of light broke up into groups and began sky maneuvers, according to witness testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.

The first object was spotted at Port Austin, although the witnesses stated that they could see through it, but that there was "a shape independent of the lights."

The witnesses were then driving along Oak Beach Road and were several miles from the beach, when they spotted the same or a similar object. They pulled over and then observed that "the lights all separated into pairs."

Each of the possibly three sets of two lights went in different directions. These small, white lights, then began "blinking in rapid, definite patterns" as though they were signaling to each other.

The witnesses watched these maneuvers for about 10 minutes, and decided to leave the area.

As they got into their car, they noticed that directly above them, "very close, four very bright , big lights came on in the sky." They said that the lights were so bright that they should have lit up everything on the ground around them, but "everything around us appeared as dark as it was before."

Finally the lights went off and on in a pattern "making it appear as if it were climbing." Then one of the small lights "took off" and the four bright lights disappeared. As they left, some of the smaller lights remain in the sky and the witnesses felt that when the large lights came on, it was a deliberate attempt by the object to gain their attention.

Port Austin is a one-square-mile sized village along Michigan's "thumb" region with a population of 737.

Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade. If Michigan MUFON Director Bill Konkolesky investigates and reports back on this case, I will update this page. The following report is unedited. You can read my selected cases by type of UFO report at the UFO Traffic Report index page.

Michigan, July 8, 2009 - We saw a huge translucent triangle which later separated into several smaller lights. MUFON Case # 18151.

On July 8th my fiance and I drove to Port Austin to watch the sun set on lake Huron. Her parents live just a few hundred feet from Magraw Park on M-25, so we parked there and walked to the park.

They were closing the park gates as we arrived at 10:oo p.m. As far as I know we were the only people on that section of beach.

As we were watching I started to hear a low rumble not unlike a jet engine but much lower in tone. It was a clear cloudless sky. I commented to my fiance about how close the sound was (sounded like it was right above us), we both searched the sky but could not locate the source of the sound.

I am familiar with this particular sound because for some time I have heard that very sound in this area and never saw any craft to cause it. As a child I lived on an airforce base in Arizona , so I am also familiar with the sound of jet engines.

This was different. More slow and steady. The sound seems like it came from the south, headed north, and faded away.

A few minutes later the sound returned.

I looked behind me to the south and in the sky above the tree line I saw a triangle of lights, three points making each side, and four lights in the center making a square. It turned in place and moved forward to the north, right above us and out over the lake. It was approximately 200-300 feet high, very large.

As it went over us we noticed you could see the triangle, but whatever was behind it you could see as well, like you could see through it. If it passed in front of a star, you could see the star through it. It continued over the lake until it was out of sight.

I would like to add that although the lights made the outline of the triangle it definitely appeared that there was a shape independent of the lights.

We decided to leave. By now it was around 10:30. We left and took Kennedy rd. to Oak Beach rd.. As we were traveling on Oak Beach, just a few miles from the beach, I saw out my passenger window the same craft or one just like it right beside us.

I told my fiance to stop the car. We got out and watched the craft pass us going toward the beach and as it neared the beach the lights all separated into pairs.

Each pair went in a different direction. The pairs, three I think, started blinking their lights as if signaling to each other blinking in rapid, definite patterns. They were small, white lights. What was odd was that, unlike the beach, we never heard these craft at all.

The lights appeared to be doing maneuvers. They would move and change direction in unison. Moving sometimes vertically, sometimes horizontally. After watching for maybe 10 minutes we decided we had seen enough and decided to leave.

We got in the car and all of a sudden right above us, straight up and down, very close, four very bright , big lights came on in the sky. We were speechless.

It was very strange because the lights looked so bright that they should of lit up everything around us but they didn't. Everything around us appeared as dark as it was before. The bottom light would disappear and one would appear at the top of the column at the same time making it appear as if it were climbing. It did this a few times then one of the small lights appeared at the top of the column and it took off straight up and the four bright lights disappeared.

We were pretty spooked at this point and left, but when we did the smaller lights were still up there moving around. We both got the impression that when those four lights came on it was a deliberate attempt to get our attention. I have had other experiences in the past. I would like to speak to someone about them but don't know how to go about it. Please contact me asap.