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SUBJECT: MICHIGAN UFO SIGHTINGS 03/94 FILE: UFO2741
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Interest Soars In Recent UFO Sighting Over Lake
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from the Grand Rapids (MI) Press - Sunday, March 13, 1994
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By Michael G. Walsh
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Grand Rapids Press News Service
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A UFO Group sends a team to investigate the sightings, which were picked up on
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radar.
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MUSKEGON -- A West Michigan UFO sighting is prompting worldwide interest
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because the phenomenon was not only seen by several people but also was
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picked up on radar.
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Walter Andrus, director of the Texas-based international Mutual UFO Network,
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said the radar veriflcation is extremely rare.
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"That's why we're especialy interested in this case,' Andrus said. Several
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MUFON investigators were to be in West Michigan this weekend to probe
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Monday's sighting.
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"What impressed us most is that it was picked up on weather radar, 20 miles
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out in Lake Michigan, moving east to west," Andrus said.
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"We're interested in knowing if anyone in (West Michigan) saw it pass over,
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then we'd have a real confirmation ," he said.
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The case started about 10:15 p.m. Monday when a Holland police officer and
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others in Ottawa Couniy noticed sets of red and green lights "oscillating"
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over Lake Michigan south of Holland.
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At the same time, tower personnel at the Muskegon County Airport saw what
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they took to be aircraft flying in formation some 60 miles south, near
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South Haven.
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Simultaneously, a National Weather Service oporator picked up radar blips
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that found a fast-moving object near South Haven.
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Leo Grenier, official in charge of oporations at Muskegon's National Weather
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Service station, said the most interesting aspect of the phenomenon was the
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object's - or objects - speed.
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The radar blips zipped from South Haven to 10 miles west of the city, over
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Lake Michigan, in 10 seconds, Grenier said.
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The speed is not beyond human ability. Modern military aircraft can fly
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even faster.
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However, unlike known aircraft, the South Haven phenomenon could hover and
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was quiet. There were no sonic "booms" reported.
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"To go out and hover over Lake Michigan is not what aircraft would be able
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to do," Andrus "That's what becomes more interesting."
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Unidentified flying ojiects are not a new phenomenon to West Michigan skies,
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but what they are remains a mystery.
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A review of sightings over the past year shows most occurred this time of
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year, of what people believed were spaceships over Lake Michigan or remote
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areas of West Michigan..
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A few witnesses claimed they saw cylindrical shaped objects flying at
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incredible speeds. Most reported mystic lights in the sky.
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Andrus said 80 percent to 90 percent of reports MUFON receives "turn out to
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be something mundane after investigation."
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Nonetheless, Andrus said, "we take our UFOs very seriously" and he has
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assigned a team to probe Monday's West Michigan sighting.
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About one or two sightings take place in the region each year, according to
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Muskegon Chronicle files. However, between 1982 and 1993 none was reported.
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Most of the reported sightings had natural explanations. A sighting last
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year, for example, turned out to be student pilots practicing their skills.
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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*@SUBJECT:Michigan UFO Newsclip 1993 N
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UFO Sightings Match Thumb Reports
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Grand Rapids (MI) Press News Service
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(Exact date unknown - 1993)
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MUSKEGON -- Mysterious lights seen hovering over Oceana and Muskegon
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counties Monday night match the description of an unidentified flyihg object
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witnessed in Michigan's Thumb area over the last month, officials with an
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international UFO organization said Wednesday.
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Shirley Coyne of Flint, state director for the Michigan chapter of the
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Mutual UFO Network, said there have been at least 16 sightings of triangle-
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shaped flying objects in eastern Michigan over the past month. Other areas
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reporting UFOs within the last month include Caro, Cass City, Kingsley and
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Lake Odessa.
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Like those seen in the Muskegon area, witnesses describe the objects as
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triangles with round corners, accented with two red lights and one white
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light.
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She said her organization is investigating the sightings including two home
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videos taken of two separate UFOs. One recent sighting was of an object
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estimated as 500 feet long, but most involve smaller triangles.
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"We've had a lot of reports like that," Coyne said. "What are they? No one
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really knows. All we have is a lot of reports."
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On Monday, two Muskegon county residents described three lights in the form
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of a triangle over Whitehall and minutes later over Muskegon. Since an
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article appeared on the sightings Wednesday in the Muskegon Chronicle, that
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newspaper has received other calls from residents with similar accounts,
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some as far north as Shelby.
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All reported seeing a grouping of lights capable of moving very slowly, then
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suddenly leaving the area at terrific speed. Area law enforcement officials
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and air traffic controllers at Muskegon County Airport said they received no
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reports on the sightings.
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Officials from the National Weather Service said they received one call from
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a person who saw three lights in a triangle pattern Monday over Lake
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Michigan.
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Linda Andrews, of Whitehall, said she was the person who made the call.
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According to Andrews, she and her husband, Robert, were in the process of
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dropping their car off for repairs Monday night in Whitehall when they saw
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three bright lights hovering over Colby Street.
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She said the object they saw was similar to those described by other eyewit-
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nesses - but had two white lights and a red light in a triangle- or V-shaped
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pattern. Andrews said the red light was made up of three round lights.
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She said the lights occasiorially broke away from that formation and the two
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white lights almost collided. She said her husband estimates the lights were
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1,000 feet above the ground. The object moved slowly to the northeast and
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was silent.
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"I was relieved to read that others reported seeing it too," she said. "My
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husband got a lot of grief at work when he told his friends what he saw."
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Although Michigan residents typically report a large number of UFOs, the UFO
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Network's Coyne said Florida residents now are reporting many sightings,
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especially near Gulf Breeze.
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Reports of UFOs are investigated by the Mutual UFO Network.
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