NUFORC UFO Sighting 187421
Occurred: 2025-01-28 19:20 Local
Reported: 2025-02-02 18:29 Pacific
Duration: 20-30 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Coloma, WI, USA
Location details: Driving northbound on I39 saw very bright light to the west southwest

Shape: Orb
Color: Bright white
Estimated Size: Larger than a plane
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: West southwest
Angle of Elevation: 36
Closest Distance: 10 miles
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

Stationary light, dimmed as if moving away from sight, the reappeared brighter and lower to the ground/horizon. Lit surrounding clouds

Driving northbound on interstate 39, saw a bright light to the west southwest. Thought it was a bright star, brightest ever seen. Kept looking every few seconds and noticed clouds didn’t block it, and the clouds would be lit up almost. Watched for about 10 min then it dimmed out as if moving really fast away from sight. Shortly thereafter it reappeared, this time brighter and slightly lower to the horizon. Noticed it almost spin, like a top, and then just stay stationary. Gave me chills. That’s when I snapped the photo. Shortly after the photo the light dimmed and was gone. I’ve never seen anything like it before.




Posted 2025-02-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 168739
Occurred: 2022-06-22 03:40 Local
Reported: 2022-06-22 06:03 Pacific
Duration: 5+ minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Coloma, MI, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object

Bright light plasma esque possibly spinning?

Bright light that dimmed almost going out but still detectible, brightened again maybe 1-2 x but was in it’s bright phase more throughout it’s duration. Was stationary though it did move somewhat as seen in the video.
I would like to say I have witnessed similar phenomenon over the years with similar characteristics. Sometimes turning out not to be suspect others unexplained like this one. So possible a “common” Lake MI great lakes phenomenon?




Posted 2022-06-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 182010
Occurred: 2017-09-15 23:30 Local
Reported: 2024-06-23 14:10 Pacific
Duration: 5 to 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Coloma, CA, USA
Location details: The Cabin we were in was Bunk House 7. We had just arrived and we parked in front of the cabin.

Shape: Light
Color: Led Type White
Estimated Size: I do not know
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: I do not have a compass direction.
Angle of Elevation: 90
Closest Distance: 15 thousand feet up maybe. Very high is all I know
Estimated Speed: Very Very Very fast
Characteristics: Lights on object

It was zigzagging made a uturn

The Cabin we were in was “Bunk House 7”. We had just arrived and we parked in front of the cabin. When I got out of the car I looked up at the night sky. It was beautiful. The stars were very bright as the night was very clear. I was looking up in admiration and that is when I saw it. It was a very bright led looking type of light. So bright that it shown just like the other stars up in the night sky. The distinguishing difference was that it was moving. That is what focused my attention. As I watched it zigzag forward, moving very very fast and making very sharp angle turns, I was amazed realizing that what I was looking at was not ordinary at all. As I was watched it zigzag forward, it suddenly made a complete u-turn and zigzagged right back in the opposite direction. That is how I knew it was going forward. My son standing next to me saw the exact same thing moving the exact same way! I will never forget it. It was a "flying machine" and its flying capabilities were beyond extraordinary.

Posted 2024-06-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 128455
Occurred: 2016-07-11 20:30 Local
Reported: 2016-07-11 20:01 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Coloma, MI, USA

Shape: Circle


Looked up by us 131 above coast line by Coloma 7 exit and see at least 9 bright red yellow glowing spheres in triangle formulations of 3. Was driving could not see more than 30 sec due to tree line and heading south brought them out of view. Could have been 3 or more big objects. Not moving and not plane or chopper.




NUFORC Note:

There are aspects of the report that we do not understand, but since the witness elects to remain totally anonymous, and he/she provides no contact information, we are unable to clarify the points. PD


Posted 2016-07-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 122775
Occurred: 2015-10-12 19:00 Local
Reported: 2015-10-13 04:37 Pacific
Duration:


Location: Coloma, MI, USA

Shape: Light


Bright white light like a star, flashes and disapears

Driving down I-94 going west and the sun was setting. It was clear sky's out. I notice a light in the sky not moving, thought it's early for a star to be out. Kept looking at it and the light got brighter like a flash and than went back to normal for a few second and disappeared. I called to tell a friend and with in minutes the light repeared in a different location for a few seconds and disappeared again.

Posted 2015-10-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 105762
Occurred: 2013-12-30 21:00 Local
Reported: 2013-12-30 21:28 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Coloma, MI, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

Three orange orbs seen in night sky that moved fast and then disappeared.

I was driving north on I-196 near Hagar township. There were three orange orbs in the sky. One was higher than the other two. Watched as one moved very fast from 12 o'clock position to three o'clock position. Then a second one disappeared the others sat in the sky for a couple of minutes and then disappeared.

Posted 2014-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 101607
Occurred: 2013-08-24 23:57 Local
Reported: 2013-08-26 14:11 Pacific
Duration: 90 seconds?
No of observers: 1

Location: Coloma, MI, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams

I saw 3 Orange Spheres, with a Starburst effect about 500 feet AGL, heading due North, about 100 Knots Per Hour.

As I reported to the NUFORC on Saturday night having spoken with Peter Davenport: At approximately 22:57, 24 August, 2013, inside the city limits of Coloma, Michigan, 49038, on 459 Park Street, in a grass alley behind the house, outside of the old motorhome I live in, I went outside to retrieve a crate & bag of cat food from a storage shed.

I was facing due North at 00 Degrees Azimuth & out of the corner of my right eye I looked up and saw a large Orange Ball-Shaped Object moving at a slow speed toward the 00 Degrees Azimuth. I walked to my right to get better look outside of the branches of a large tree & saw 2 more Orange Spheres in line with the 3rd. They were moving rather slowly, like a Gaggle of Helicopters would travel, approximately 500 feet Above Ground Level. At the time, the Moon had risen to about 135! Degrees Angle & the Orange Spheres were each about the size of one-tenth of the rising Moon.

The 3 Orange Spheres were also giving out a light similar to a multi-pointed Star.
As I watched, I walked forward on the grass alley and with awe & amazement, I kept saying out loud, “Oh, My Gosh! Oh, My Gosh! Oh, My Gosh! Oh, My Gosh!”
The first of the 3 Spheres, went out & I saw a Star in the distant which went out. The 2nd & the 3rd Spheres seemed to stop moving for about 10 seconds & then proceeded to follow the 1st Sphere & the 2nd Sphere went out & the 3rd Sphere went out. There was no sound emitted from the Crafts. Maybe traveling about a 100 Knots per Hour?

I was so e xcited! I called a TV station in Chicago, which is quite progressive, but was put on hold then disconnected 3 times. I asked before the fourth if I should call back the next day, & was told “Yes.” I then called the Berrien County Sheriff’s Office who did not know what to think of me. I asked for the telephone number to the Michigan State Police & after 3 different officers, last being a shift Capt., with the same disinterest. I did ask if they received any more reports to let me know……

I then went inside my motorhome & looked up a reporting center for UFO’s & found this one & called & spoke with Peter Davenport. He told me that he had just received reports from 2 other callers before me. Asked if I was near Detroit, Michigan. I said no, I was on the other side of the state. Being about 22 miles direct north of Indiana & about 90 miles from Chicago. I am about 5 miles East of Lake Michigan.

I consider myself to be very! fortunate for this experience. Just the previous day I had watched a program on satellite dish about Area 15 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, just North of Dayton, at Fairborn, Ohio. I had worked there in the 1980’s as a Crew Chief Aircraft Mechanic on F-4D’s.

I am retired from the USAF as a Tech Sergeant Aircraft Mechanic. I hold an FAA A & P License. I also hold a Student Pilot’s License. I have been afforded 4 rides on attack & fighter aircraft. The A-37 side seat & F-4D rear cockpit seat, twice each. So I know a bit about aircraft.

Posted 2013-08-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 107196
Occurred: 2013-06-06 23:00 Local
Reported: 2014-02-17 01:15 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 2

Location: Coloma, CA, USA

Shape: Cylinder


Two large pink and blue cylinder objects hanging in sky over Sierra Nevada Mountains

I have waited several months to report this sighting but it weighs on me so heavy, I need to tell others what I experienced.

On Thursday, June 6, 2013, between 11:00 and 11:30 pm I witnessed an extraordinary sight in the northeast sky near Coloma, California, and the American River Canyon.

While taking a casual, balmy evening stroll in my friend's horse pasture, I was met with two huge glow-stick-like objects looming in the sky about two or so miles in front of me and what appeared to be about 7-10 thousand ft. in the air.

I was astounded and stood gaped faced while trying to figure out what I was experiencing. They were cylindrical in shape and although extremely bright, the light they emitted seemed to be not glowing, but just...there?

They really looked like glow-sticks suspended in the air. They were large and looked the size of a mini-mall. One bright pink and the other blue. Like giant horizontal day-glo tubes in the night sky, and they made no sound at all.

Even though there are no cities or heavily populated areas near the sighting, this was so big and unbelievably “in your face”, I find it hard to believe not more people have reported this sighting.

My friend saw them too but won't discuss it because she is so freaked out.

Posted 2014-02-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 85351
Occurred: 2011-11-16 17:50 Local
Reported: 2011-11-16 19:34 Pacific
Duration: 5 sec.
No of observers: 2

Location: Coloma, WI, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

Over a rural road, six horizontal lights appeared low in the sky for a few seconds and disappeared, silently.

My husband and I were driving on County GG near Coloma, Wisconsin and at approximately 5:50 PM we saw 6 horizontal, evenly spaced lights appear in the sky. They appeared low in the sky and reminded us of stadium lights but in a horizontal pattern as I described.

We both asked, "What is that?" and they immediately went dark. Within seconds, we stopped the car, turned off the engine and got out to listen. There was no sound. We expected a plane, helicopter or something, but it was silent.

This is a rural, county road. There are no trees, etc. or other visual obstructions where we were. The only other traffic was a truck 1/4 mile ahead of us that appeared oblivous to this. There are no towers, city lights or nearby airport.

My husband and I have lived in this area for 30 years. We are both retired teachers. I am 51 and my husband is 62 and have never seen anything like this. This is the first time I have ever reported something like this.

Posted 2011-12-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 51533
Occurred: 2006-08-17 23:00 Local
Reported: 2006-08-17 02:06 Pacific
Duration: Still going on
No of observers: 4

Location: Coloma, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

Every night they are up an over Sacramento and the Sierras

I have been watching what I believe to be Military aircraft for weeks now. They appear to be from Beal AFB and/or somewhere south. They hover like stars in the sky and can bleep in and out as needed. They emit many colors and seem to be a bit unstable.

I now know that the light is a scanner system for the surface of the earth.

I borrowed a telescop from a friend and took it to another friends home to try. As I did,,, I noticed that they seem to be aware of me watching them. As I drove home about 10 miles. I could see and feel one at my back all the times. I had to go see my mother. Even though I had to talk to her, I was afraid to tell my mother as she wouldn't have believed me,,, nor would my wife. THEY DO NOW!!!!!!!! When I set up the scope at my Mothers home,,, a large craft dropped out of the sky and hovered just behind the tree line. That was all the evidence my mother needed. She was at once astonished and then she scolded me and said "believe me son,,, you don't want to keep doing this. As usual I didn't listen,,, perhaps someday I will.

I went home and got my son,,, we dove 2 miles to a clear spot in the canyon. It was there that my son and I watched a craft hover over head at 800 to one thousand feet, and just drop to the ground. No sound???????? no movement not even any heat.. My son and I had a real bad feeling and chose to leave then.

This is no joke. I would advise any skeptic not to look if you don't want to know. These are war games they are working on or,,,they are really in combat. See for yourself.

My son is a believer now,,,, and my wife and mother are too. THIS IS REALL,,,, I was in the military many years ago. I can tell you that I believe they are about to make this public.

I have never seen a ship that can defy gravity, has somekind of radar or defense beam, and appears to be able to fly at 50 to 80 thousand miles an hour. I can blink out to invisible!!!!!! The place is in the greater Sacramento area in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. It happens every night but Sunday (Even Aliens need to go to church). If you want to see the show,,,come and get it. It brought around a skeptic like me. Please,,, don't aim a telescope at any of the craft. When they scan,,, they see the return beam from the reflection. I am certain thats why they took a close look at my son and I.

I must look like a shoulder fired missle. I would be nervous too.

I think they are X22-A's and several other manufacturers. I love the home team. I just which I knew who the home team in this case.

These are US owned and operated though. Call it a Former Marine's gut feeling.

Posted 2006-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 40427
Occurred: 2004-09-22 21:00 Local
Reported: 2004-11-03 20:51 Pacific
Duration: seconds x 2
No of observers: 2

Location: Coloma, WI, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

3 linear yellow lights over Coloma, Wisconsin

Aproximately 2100hrs as I was driving north on HWY 51 toward Coloma with a passenger. We saw 3 yellow gold lights at the cloud layer. (Thin light very broken cloud layer with stars visible through openings). The 3 linear lights were desending at an angle and then rotated quickly north.(?? 10-15 seconds)Appeared to be just north of Coloma just east of HWY 51. The lights re-appeared a couple minutes later and did some very tight rotations staying linear (again appeared near the bottom of the cloud layer)then disappeared. (?? 5 seconds) I quickly stopped on the off ramp to Coloma shut the car off got out and listened. There was no jet or engine noise but visually the lights were gone. This is a large MOA area. The flight pattern could only be described as very extreme.



Posted 2004-11-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 24873
Occurred: 2002-09-05 21:45 Local
Reported: 2002-09-05 20:42 Pacific
Duration: days
No of observers: 3

Location: Coloma, WI, USA

Shape:
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Airplane like object stationary in the north sky emitting red, white, and green (or blue) light.

I am at 43 degrees 59 minutes 2 seconds North, 89 degrees 33 minutes 18 seconds West. The last two nights we have observed an object about 10 degrees above the horizon and about 10 to 12 degrees East of true North stationary in the sky. It is a small source of alternating light of red, white, and green (or blue). It is small enough to have no shape, but is brighter than any star in the sky. We have observed it for several hours each night over the last three nights. It remains stationary the entire time that we observe it. I reported it to our local Sheriff's department, their officers have observed it and concluded that it is a planet whose light is being affected by the aurora. I pointed out, to them, that there are no planets in the far northern sky, but they were happy with their explination. Hope you can tell us what it is.

Thanks, ((name deleted)) I don't think that this is a UFO, but would like to know what it is.



NUFORC Note:

We spoke with this witness and believe that the object he viewed probably was a celestial body. He will look again on the next clear night. PD


Posted 2002-09-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 79316
Occurred: 1981-08-01 02:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2010-12-20 18:32 Pacific
Duration: 5 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Coloma, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere


My friend and I witnessed a silent, yellow-orange, spherical shaped UFO.

At approximately 2:00 am I saw a spherical object hovering above a hill across the American River where we were camped. It was August, and hot enough that my friend and I were camping on the sand in sleeping bags, with no tent. I awoke around 2 and sat up in my bag. Directly across the river above a hill was a yellow-orange spherical object. It appeared to be lit from within.

The object hovered perfectly still, making no sound whatsoever. It was the kind of night that was so clear and quiet you could hear a camper 100 feet from you clear his throat.

It’s difficult to gauge the size of the object, but it appeared to be about 20 to 25 feet in diameter. I awakened my friend when the object began to move. My friend only witnessed the object in motion; it is unfortunate that I did not waken him sooner.

The object did not appear to accelerate. What I mean is, it went from a dead standstill to a fast pace, apparently instantly. It was as if I were watching a computerized dot on a screen in animation. The speed of the object was probably somewhere around 4 or 500 miles per hour. It flew overhead, off to our right side, and out of sight in a matter of 5 or 6 seconds. Again there was absolutely no sound, not even a whisper from the thing.

I never reported this sighting, although it happened nearly thirty years ago. Today I am a schoolteacher, and my friend is a principal. We are both in our mid-fifties.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2011-01-05