Michigan Late 1960's - Disc Illuminated, Large Blueish-White Object, Huge Metal Ball, Blue Light And Possible Abduction

     This report was filed with MUFON on Dec. 25, 2009. A 'landing light' from a old prop plane, connected to a car battery, brought a disc to that location. This report shows the US government's interest in such craft in the late 1960's.

     This is the report in full, as it was reported on Christmas Day:

     

     "In the summer of 1967 or 1968, my friend Tim and I were sitting in a pickup truck watching for bears in a garbage dump on Werth Road, just outside Alpena Mi. It was 10:00 PM or so when Tim saw a moving light, kind of like a distant star, on the horizon far to the east of us. What surprised us to begin with was it reversed and went backwards then reversed again as if on a string. Tim had a spot light with a DC-10 landing light in it and he flashed it at the dot of light. After a moment, we could see that the object was coming toward us and Tim continued to shine the light at it.

We got out of the pickup and got onto the roof. The object traveled to a point that appeared to be high in the sky directly above us. The object then appeared to be getting bigger and bigger and we realized it was descending. It got to a point where the spotlight was able to reach the bottom of the “craft” which we could now see was saucer shaped.

Earlier in the evening we were outside our cabin on Beaver Lake and used the spot to light up the woods on the other side of the lake. Where we were, the lake is about ¾ of a mile across, so we guessed the “craft” was about 3500 to 4000 feet above us. There was no noise and no downdraft. Suddenly a light emitted from the “craft”, like a spot light but looked florescent, right down on us and only lit up the area of the truck, not the surrounding area.

At that point we jumped down and into the truck and got out of there. We drove a couple miles west to a little known town of Spratt, which had a bar and Laundromat. In the parking lot of the bar was a payphone. We called the Michigan State Police and told them what happened. They told us to wait for a car to respond. We could still see the “craft” hovering over the dump area.

A little while later a DNR vehicle showed up and asked if we were the ones who had an animal complaint. He said there wasn’t an available car in the area so he was sent but they didn’t tell him what it was about. We told him the story and pointed out the “craft” that was still there. He got on the radio and advised what he had and that it was still there. A short while later, the dispatcher advised him that Alpena AFB, Grayling and Travers City said nothing was on radar, as the three of us stood there watching it. He took our information and we all left.

The next morning, a State Trooper knocked on our cabin door and advised us we were to go into Alpena AFB, that they wanted to talk to us.

When we arrived, officers from the Voodoo Witch Fighter Squadron separately interviewed us and were both asked to draw pictures of what we saw.

Several months later we received an in depth questionnaire from Wright Patterson AFB. We both filled them out and returned them and that is the last we ever heard of it." 

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1967-04-21 - "While driving home from work in Rapid City, Michigan at 9:00 p.m. C.D. Scott saw a large round, bluish white lighted object descend to land in a wooded area. When he got home he notified the sheriff's office, then drove back to the site with his wife and children and accompanied by a deputy sheriff. While Mrs. Scott and the children waited in the car, Mr. Scott and the officer searched the wooded area, and then became separated. The deputy found nothing, but Mr. Scott came upon the craft. It was resting on small legs in a marshy area. Standing next to it was a medium sized man. Mr. Scott called out "hello" but got no response; he then repeated the greeting and this time received a mental warning, "Get away from here!" He turned and fled to his car, badly frightened, and in an agitated state." (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-36.)

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Occurred : 6/15/1967 03:00 (Entered as : 1967 03:00)
Reported: 9/10/2003 12:13:24 AM 00:13
Posted: 9/12/2003
Location: Detroit, MI
Shape: Sphere
Duration:1min
huge metal ball shaped ship hanging low in air then moved away at 2 o'clock angle at great speed.

"my brother a friend and i, at about 3pm in the afternoon looked up and saw a space ship. it was huge like a big silver metal ball hanging in the air below the clouds (it was sunny with a few low puffy white clouds against a clear blue sky) .it was perhaps three times as long a dc-10 airplane, it had no markings and no seams.

we stood their looking and it knew we saw it.i taped my friend with my left elbow and wispered go get somebody trying not to move my lips but it knew somehow and before my friend could turn around the ship shuttered and moved away at about a 2 o'clock angle at great speed, their was no sound or exhaust."

 1968-01  

"I have kept this sighting secret for close to forty years. This was mainly due to fear. I will explain this at the end. At the time of this sighting I was a college student at The University of Toledo. It was a cold, overcast Saturday night in January, 1968 (it did snow later that evening). I was on semester break. I and two of my fraternity brothers were on our way to a camping trip at one of the other brother's parents' cottage located in the Irish Hills of lower Michigan. We were headed up route 223 out of Toledo, Ohio and had just driven through the small town of Rome Center (near Adrian, Michigan). I was sitting in the back seat of the car on the passanger's side when I felt a sensation of light coming from behind me. At first I paid little attention to this thinking it was just bright car lights coming up from behind us. However, after it happened again I paused then turned around to look out the back window of the car to discover that there was no other car on the road behind us. Puzzled, I continued to look out the back window. Then, approximately 500 feet in the clouds, the outline of an oval shaped blue light with a similar beam of blue light came on to engulf the small town which we had just driven through! We were driving up a small incline, so it was very easy to discern the oval shape of the blue beam of light. It was so distinct that I could clearly make out the oval edge of the beam in the darkness of the night (there were NO street lights!) Again, it was the most intense, beautiful blue I have ever seen! But strangely, I could look at the light without squinting. I cannot say enough how I was awe-struck by this beautiful blue light! However, there was a definite on-off pattern to this light. It reminded me of a "gigantic" flash bulb. And, it was huge! I would say that the size of the UFO, when closest to our car, would compare to a pineapple held out at arms length. As I continued watching, the UFO came on again, but, this time directly over the road behind us. It was definitely moving in a SE to NW direction. Why it reminded me of a huge flash bulb is because the blue oval shape in the clouds and the beam of brilliant blue light came on at the same time but then, the beam of light would fade back into the oval shape in the clouds and then go off! If I was a betting man, I would say that this UFO was taking pictures of the area! Now is when things start gettting a little strange. The next time the UFO appears it is directly over our car. I distinctly remember looking up into this light. But, it was no longer blue but instead a very intense white light...I remember that it hurt my eyes! The next thnig I remember is sitting down in the back seat, looking out the front window of the car and hearing the driver say "I'm gettin' the hell out of here!" With this, the driver slammed his foot onto the gas pedal and left the area at a high rate of speed. I caught one last glimpse of the UFO going on again approximately 1,000 yards in the distance. Now, this might seem to be a normal reaction from the driver, but, I NEVER said a thing to anyone in the front seat about what I was observing out the back window. Yes, the driver could have become alarmed observing the UFO through his rear view mirror, but all the while I was watching this UFO, the driver and his front passanger were engaged in conversation. And, how did the UFO move that far away from my vantage point in such a short time? Well, when we arrived at the cottage, all the lights were out and everyone was asleep! By my watch it was past 1:00 a.m. WE WERE NOT THAT FAR FROM THE BROTHERS COTTAGE WHEN I OBSERVED THE UFO...WHY DID IT TAKE US ANOTHER HOUR-AND-A-HALF TO ARRIVE? Also, upon arrival, no one in the car mentioned the UFO. To this day, it has never been discussed among us. Not too long after this my headaches began! They have continued up until this day although they seem to be getting less severe as I age.

What happened to me a few years later made me stay quiet regarding this UFO sighting. I was now a teacher at a local high school in Toledo. Although I lived only a couple of blocks from the school I still drove. One morning I was backing out of the drive-way when I noticed an old-style black Cadillac parked in front of my house. I pulled away from my house and this black Cadillac starts following me...right into the parking lot of the school where I taught! The Cadillac proceeds to pull-up in the parking space right next to mine. Needless to say I was very concerned about who this person was and why they were following me. When I looked over to see who it was, I was met by a pair of icy, glaring eyes. To this day, I will NEVER forget how these eyes starred right through me! He just kept staring at me! I say he because, I think it was a he! He wore a white overcoat with the collar turned up all the way around his neck and mouth with a white brimed hat turned down so all that I could see were his eyes and nose (which appeared to be very thin and narrow). The eyes reminded me of two black coals! The skin of this guy was "whitish!" I stared back at him for a few seconds but then quickly walked into the building where I taught hoping to catch a glimpse of his license number. Mind you, I am constantly keeping the Cadillac in my peripheral vision all the time I am walking to and entering the building. On entering the building there was a door immediately to my left that I entered where the room included windows all along the side facing the parking lot from which I had just exited. It took me less than 5 seconds to get to the window to observe this Cadillac...but it was gone! I do not know how he got out of the parking lot in such a short amount of time without me seeing him! Besides that, other cars were driving in...and this was only a "single" drive way. He would have had to wait for the other cars to pass before he could have driven out! As a side note here, you should know that I was getting ready to put together a complete report of my 1968 sighting prior to this visit from the black Cadillac!
Also, so you know I am not some kind of nut, I hold three degrees including an Industrial Engineering Technology Degree . As a result of what happened that evening, I have been studying the phenomenon of UFO's for years. However, I have never come across a report similar to mine. If one exists out there, I would certainly be interested in reading it. Also, over the years, I have come to the realization that something happened to me that night in 1968. I do not know what. But I have to find out! Thank you.

D. W."


 

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1981 Mass Sighting And Close Encounter, MIB Make Threats, Close Look At Small Delta, The 'Stealth Blimp'

This incredible series of events was said to have occurred in 1981.
The 101st Airborne Division’s base on the Tennessee and Kentucky border, Fort Campbell, is known as ‘ftcky’.


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“This event was [s]een by a whole army div. and thousands of people in the nearby area. some of thes[e] beings are not good” –
Fear Produced By Close Low Silent Discs    
Bold text is my emphasis added.

“In 1981 either in the spring or the fall it has been so long. I still remember fairly clear what had happened one night at ftcky.
The 101 Airborne.Div..had a division exercise and about 28,000 participated. We received a radio call from division HQ that we are halting the exercise and [to] observe the sky for unusual objects. We have been notified that the object is unidentifiable. We were asked to mark our watches and monitor time loss. After the event we should examine our selves for puncture wounds in the nape of our necks and behind the ear lobes. Not long after that about 1 minute a large object appeared in the sky I could not see it at first. It appeared like all the other other stars.
The radio operator . . . and the company commander a capt. who was my age 24 years old at the time, . . . pointed out the object. It grew bigger and bigger and appeared to be approximately 2000 ft. up. One object turned into 4 maybe 5 smaller objects. They were discs and they came from the larger object. Now I can't figure out if the larger object was a cylinder or a larger disc because of the angle and postion it was in. The smaller disc as I recall glowed green on one side and orange on the other. They flew faster than any earth bound vehicle and could stop on a dime, a very sudden stop no coasting. These discs wanted to be seen obviously with bright colors and it appeared that the were flying in a pattern to triangulate the entire div. and then they stopped and spread quickly to various points. One of the silver discs stopped maybe 150 meters away from my company. I immediately asked the company commander, I volunteer to go forward and make contact. I will be peaceful and show no hostility. He said Doc I need to get that cleared. He radioed division .Hq and they said proceed with caution make note of any markings and observe for any life forms inside.
The company commander told me Doc you don't have to do this. I said Sir I have to do this we have an opportunity to meet someone from another world. I ran forward hoping this object would not leave before I could make contact. I stood before this disc that appeared to be silver now not showing what I will term its battle colors green and orange.
I carried a 45 calb. pistol as I was a senior combat medic rank E5. I was also wearing my battle dress to include the laser tag equipment used in training.
I approached the first time and waved with my hand and held the position waving as the satellite with the man and the woman on it (voyager). I felt maybe some other life forms had seen us from that satellite.
I could not see any movement and thought maybe it's my gear. I ran back and dropped my gear at the capstan's. feet and told him to keep my 45 pistol I might be gone a long time and tell my parent I love them if this happens. He said Doc you need to stay here , I don't feel good about this. I said Sir if I make contact
do you want to approach me or do I bring them to you or do you send one of your lieutenants out. He paused as if he did not want to respond. Then he said we will cross that bridge when it happens.
I then jogged eagerly back to the silver disc and with 2 canteens in hand, some C rations in my pocket I offered food and drink to this flying disc.
no response. I had no weapons on me. I was nearly defenseless and I recall while running out there the second time I new I was not going to get any help from the 90 or so men who were now in my background a 150 meters away from me. It was me, against this disc. I also knew they would probably leave the others alone. My job as a combat medic was to protect the men on health issues and protect wounded from the enemy. I was 12 inches away from this disc. it was silver like flexible foil. It was Quiet never made a sound and hovered about 5' (ft) from the ground . I stood 5'11 inches 186 pounds in those days. I was literally nose to nose with this disc. I saw it to be flat on the bottom and contoured to the top with a small dome on top.
no markings of any kind . I think I remember portals on the dome on top of the ship. I saw no one I walked 3/4s around this ship.
no contact. I looked onward to my company who seemed very far away at this point.
then I became extremely concerned in my sp[i]rit. What use to be courage almost became fear and a warning, almost as if some one was talking to me.
I was being told to leave quickly that this was not normal and I was in harms way. It was as if my sprit warned me perhaps God warned me, or may be something in the disc warned me. I then walked quickly around and then faced the front position that I started in at the disc and waved one more time. No response and then with some fear about me I jogged in a zigzag pattern back to my company.
I did not want the occupants on board to think I was scared or let them think they had advantage over me. I could feel a presence and I sent a I am not scared presence back. It was for lesser words animal instinct being used by both parties in my opinion.
After I got back I said to the captain, I tried but they do not want to communicate and quite frankly I am scared sir. the company commander said to me you are not alone Doc look around you. Every man around us was praying to God. I knelt with one knee to the ground near the men
facing as bold as I could and prayed 'God make this thing go away, this disc is not of good nature, protect us. not more than 5 seconds latter this disc moved back as I left it , dipped down moved like a zig zag and straight out and up to the larger ship it went.
all the other discs left at the same time.

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We were debriefed by I believe by an air force capt. who said he was with information / foreign technology. He asked me if I saw any markings chin se or Russian. I said no none. He asked me if it made sound, I said none, did I see anybody , no I saw no one.
He said we saw a bonified UFO and the discs were not of earthly origin. He also told us that one of the discs halted an air force C130 aircraft when it was taking off 2 feet from the ground at ftcky air strip. It drained the aircraft of energy and set it on the ground. He also said
the gov. wanted to reopen project Blue book because of the event. He then said he had no more time for us as he had to interview another company that had an experience that night. I asked what happened and he replied to all of us that is not up for discussion here.
I asked the air force debrief if we could talk about this. He said we could to anyone for the rest of our lives. he said the us gov. was real interested in this event.

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Now, two weeks latter we were in the field training and one of the sergeants showed me with night vision goggles,
you could see for miles when the laser tag mechanism was fired. I said that's why they came down. They thought we had laser guns.
Its a good thing I took off all my equipment. Then the Sergeant turned to me and said Doc I heard a rumor that 3 men in another company were taken off of the ground and sent back striped of gear and clothing. 2 were dead and one got committed to the hospital crazy bin.
He also said I was either crazy or the bravest medic he had ever seen.”
Rptd  to MUFON on 2009-12-17




1981 Kentucky  “Saw the same thing Doc saw on your email story from today”

“A couple of buddies and me were leaving the barracks about 19:15 to go to town. As we were headed toward the car we noticed a bunch of guys from surronding barracks were pointing toward the sky and talking excitedly.
We stopped to see what they were looking at and saw a cylindrical object hovering right over our heads. I really don't know the exact size,
but it looked large. It was right on top of us but it didn't make a sound.
It slowly turned and headed toward the air field. Another thing that was strange, was you could hear all kinds of air craft at the field taking off. Usually you'ld hear a plane or two taking off, but this night it was constant engine sounds. We watched in awe for about 15 minutes then went to town.”

Rptd  2009-12-19




1988-02-15  Arizona  TWO MIB CONFISCATE CLOSE-UP OF UFO PHOTO AND THREATEN LIVES – Photo of Disc Circled By Orb, near Roosevelt Lake

“Around 1989 I was working at a restaurant in Scottsdale, Az. I was speaking with a customer and somehow we were on the subject of life on other planets.

Another customer overheard me say this and said "Do you really believe that"? I said "Yes, I do". He said "Next time I come in, I am going to show you something". He had a serious demeanor as he said this.

A few days later he came in and had a brief case with him. This brief case was totally dedicated to this UFO encounter he had experienced. . . . he had outlined the area that he had encountered a UFO in. It was the Roosevelt Lake area, north of Phoenix.

He then pulled out a Polaroid photo he had taken. I stared at that photo for 20 minutes. It is THE most realistic photo of a UFO I have ever seen. And it was VERY close up.

The photo was taken from about 50 ft. away. It was taken at night and the ONLY light source was from the UFO itself! . . . "Why didn't you use a flash"? His eyes got huge, and he said "Are you kidding! They would have seen me".

The reason you could tell the light was emanating from the craft was because the foliage to the left on the image was illuminated from behind. The foliage was in front of the craft, from the vantage point of the camera.

The craft was the classic disc-shaped kind. It was gray and metallic looking. I would gauge the craft to be about 60 ft. from side to side. The craft was about 50-60 ft. away from the camera-taker.

The most fascinating part on the craft was the light on it. There was an orb, about the size of a basketball, that was circling the middle, most wide part of the craft. The orb was pure white in color, with not a tinge of yellow or blue. The reason you could tell the orb was circling the craft was due to the fact that the camera had captured a tail trailing the orb, as would a tail on a comet.

So I tell they guy, after freaking out on the amazing authenticity of his photo, that he has to show this to someone. He said "I plan to. There is a professor/ufologist at ASU that is interested in this".

So I see the guy several days later and he said he had taken the photo to the ASU (Arizona State University) guy. He said the ASU professor also said it was the best UFO photo he had ever seen.

I see the guy several days later, again, and ask him what the ASU professor guy is doing with the photo and such. He starts acting really weird. He wouldn't answer me. I asked him again. His demeanor was that he was pissed off. He said to me "I'm not allowed to talk about it". I said "What? What do you mean?" He said "I'm not allowed to talk about it". He is really agitated. I can't resist, so I said "Oh come on". He said "I'm not allowed to talk about it. Two men from the government showed up at my door and said I am not allowed to mention this again, or I will diappear. They took the photo from the ASU professor and threatened him as well".

Mind you, his experience was long before MIB, the movie, came out, and MIB became part of general consciousness.”
Rptd  2009-12-20


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From Filer’s Files 2009 #48:

HOLMDEL, NJ – “I was driving on Holmdel Road headed south towards Coltsneck about August 25, 1990, at 12:30 AM, when I saw something pass over a field, at tree top level in my rearview mirror. I could see its black shape in the brightness of the full moon and it’s flashing lights. I hit my brakes that must have caught its attention because it immediately came after me. It closed a 1/4 mile in seconds and was now a ‘car length’ behind me. The jet black triangle UFO was traveling at 50 mph along the driver's side of my car and was ''glued'' to that position. I slammed on my brakes and to my amazement the UFO did not pass ahead of me. It remained in the same exact spot in relation to my car. I slammed on the accelerator, and again the UFO accelerated to stay glued to that same position. I reached a point in the road where there were some trees and I pulled over. If this thing wanted me, it had me. There was no escape.

I was not afraid just ‘fascinated’ as the UFO stopped at the same ''glued spot'' at the driver's side of my car, but due to the trees it had to stop higher up than it was during the chase. It could fit inside the dimensions of the two lane road; it was lower than the very top of the tress. It hovered above me slightly lower than the top of the trees. .
I shut my engine off and there was no sound whatsoever. I left my headlights on and could see a definitely triangular object with three flashing lights, which were not quite located at the ''points'' of the triangle. I got out of the car and stood there looking up at it. The craft’s lights looked very incandescent like a filament that has a distinct look as it begins to glow and also when the power is removed. They were not terribly bright, and the white light was inside a clear glass U shaped globe. The ''filament'' was at about the center of the hand size globe. Each light would go on, then off, and then the next light would go on, then off, then the next, etc.

I was standing there looking at this UFO for several minutes alone and the lights were primitive like I would have expected to see in Thomas Edison's workshop. The entire bottom of the UFO was a patchwork of square and rectangular sections with absolutely no symmetry. It looked like a sci-fi movie depiction of a futuristic spacecraft with only three lights. I just stood there looking up and after a minute it very slowly began to move away. This is exactly as I remember without embellishment.”

Rptd  2009-11


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Occurred on 2008-10-28  in California
 “Large diamond shaped irridescent object”

“was completely floored by what I saw. Clear as a bell, without any doubt whatsoever, a large diamond shapped object was slowly cruising no more that 100 meters above the ground and about 100 meters out. It was glowing very brightly and changing colors (blue, red, green and white). As it moved from our feild of vision I ran out the back door to follow it and was even more amazed when I got there. I could see details such as panels and that it had a kind of thick antenna on the top of it.”

Rptd  to MUFON on 2009-12-08



Occurred on 2008-01-18  in Texas 
“Boomerang lowflying Semi Invisable Shape”

 “It was around 8 - 9 pm when my wife and i were walking around our neighborhood. I was looking up at the sky at stars on a clear night when i saw a triangular object barely visible. This object seemed just to fly over the tree tops, very low flying object. It made no sound at all. The most strangest thing besides seeing the object that was about a block wide was that it was semi visible. I could not see it until it was directly overhead. As soon as it went over us and was at an angle i could not see it anymore like it was invisible. I tried my best to keep an eye on it but it just disappeared. As soon as i saw it i shouted "Oh my God!" thats when my wife looked up and saw the same object i did. We were both shaken up about this scared and excited that we saw this thing.”
Rptd  to MUFON on 2009-12-11



Occurred 2009-12-04  in Texas  “saw the stealth blimp headed north”

“was out back getting some wood when I noticed some lights overhead moving slowly to the north. I could make out a giant black triangular shape moving through the breaking clouds. Im not sure what the speed was but it couldnt have been more than 50-60 mph. It was totally silent and jaw droppingly awesome.”

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Occurred 2009-12-05  in Texas  Report to MUFON titled “Saw UFO land and occupants come out”

“a couple of fields over (I live in the country) a silver disc with a glow (no other lights) landed. Well, it did not touch the ground, it hovered just above the ground. A platform lowered beneath the UFO and 3 beings walked out. They did not look like typical grays we all see. They walked like humans but were smaller. They were too far away to see any details, but it was obvious they were not your typical gray.

My dog was going nuts and wanted to run towards them, but I grabbed his collar and put on the leash. . . . Once I got the dog under control, I ran - fast - back to the house to grab a phone or camera (whatever I could get my hands on first). By the time I got back outside, there was nothing in the field. Nothing! It was completely gone. I had my dog with me still and let him off the leash. He didnt even sense anything anymore.

. . .  I have never believed in UFOs. Never. But I know what I saw.”




2009-12-16  “The shape was triangular”
Carpinteria California, Dec 16th 4am

“Last night at 4am as i stepped outside to investigate a noise, probably raccoons on the front porch, i looked up into the sky.
Over the mountains about a mile to the north a dark large object with dim lights silhouetting its shape started moving towards me, it must have been a few thousand feet up in the sky. It made absolutely no noise and was very large , maybe 250ft long and 100 ft wide (just a guess). It moved from the mountains traveling south to just over my head and started to hover, it then rotated and pointed east. Like a flash it disappeared at increadible speed, making no noise, into the eastern horizon .”




"We don't know one millionth of 1% about anything."  Thomas Edison