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They watched this type of activity in the sky repeatedly through about 8:30 p.m. along a road near Boyne City.
"They were not always in the same exact location but did stay in the southeastern sky and were always close to the horizon," the reporting witness stated. "No way of telling for sure, but they appeared to be a couple miles away which would have made their actual size very large. The lights did not move once they appeared, but would hover in place until their disappearance. I spoke to a neighbor who has said that he has seen the same thing in the southeastern sky before."
One photo was submitted with this report.
Boyne City is a city in Charlevoix County, population 3,502.
Second Report
Also on March 16 in Michigan, at approximately the same time, witnesses report a "bright, stationary object" that was "10 times as big as a star" at 8 p.m. over Sterling Heights.
Sterling Heights is approximately at four-hour drive by car and 245 driving miles southeast of Boyne City.
The following is the unedited and as yet uninvestigated report filed with MUFON. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade. If Michigan MUFON investigates and reports back on this case, I will release an update.
Michigan, March 16, 2010 - 5 or 6 hovering yellow lights in a diagonal row close to the horizon. MUFON Case # 22327.
On the way home from my son's soccer practice we turned south onto our road near Boyne City, MI, and in the southeastern sky in front of us, we saw about six or seven yellow circular lights in a row diagonally near the horizon.
They appeared for about five seconds and then disappeared from the ends towards the center until one was left and then it too disappeared.
This happened repeatedly (six or seven times) until about 8:30 which is the last that we saw them.
At times, there were two grouping and sometimes they all faded out at the same time rather than disappearing from the ends inward.
They were not always in the same exact location but did stay in the southeastern sky and were always close to the horizon. No way of telling for sure, but they appeared to be a couple miles away which would have made their actual size very large. The lights did not move once they appeared, but would hover in place until their disappearance. I spoke to a neighbor who has said that he has seen the same thing in the southeastern sky before.
When I first saw the lights, I thought it must be some new cell-towers that went up. But the color wasn't right and the position kept moving, so my theory was quickly ruled out.
I was not afraid at the time (my son WAS). I stopped my car and got out my phone to take a picture. I did get a picture, but it was only the last light in the center after the outer lights had disappeared so it just looks like a very, very big star just above the horizon.
We didn't lose sight of the object. After a while it just didn't reappear anymore, and we were getting cold, so we went indoors.
Michigan, March 16, 2010 - Large illuminating circular stationary, then moving. MUFON Case # 22328.
UFO was spotted around 8:00 pm, on March 16th. My wife and I were at 18 mile and Hayes, in Sterling Heights. We witnessed a very bright stationary object southwest of our direction. Very low to the ground which is what caught our eyes. Ten times as big as a star.
We have been UFO believers for years and are always looking at the sky, but until tonight we have never witnessed anything like this. We watched for a few minutes and began to see multiple planes around the object. At one point we seen the object change an array of colors, and it began to move in a western direction. We got in our car and tried to chase it down.
We drove to 16 mile and Clinton river road and saw it again. The object stopped once more for two or three minutes, just as bright as can be, and very large compared to the planes that were flying around it. We lost sight of it as it began to glide more west of us rapidly.
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