NUFORC UFO Sighting 165898
Occurred: 2021-12-16 22:15 Local
Reported: 2021-12-17 12:54 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes maybe longer
No of observers: 1

Location: Wayland, MI, USA
Location details: Aproximately 1/2mile to 1 mile south of Main St and Superior St intersection. On Main St/10th St.

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

Amber Orb/Sphere changing brightness and color slightly and moving quickly. Possibly more than one.

Just after 10pm Thursday night December 16th 2021, I was watching TV as usual and a light caught my attention in the southern window/door of my home looking over my back yard. I had seen the same thing about 2 or 3 nights earlier but didnt get up to check it out because it disappeared fairly quickly and i assumed it was just a plane. But this time i grabbed my cell phone and very quickly went to the window/door which was about 30 feet away from me and started filming the object (Pardon my swearing in the video, i was startled a little). It was amber in color and constantly fading and getting brighter frequently. It appeared to be a 1/2 mile to 1 mile south of the City over the cemetery or possibly the small lake which was a little further away. But it appeared to be no further than a mile away at the most. It was hard to tell. I have NEVER seen anything like this before. And it must have been getting very bright in order for it to catch my attention through a window that was 30 feet away while watching TV in another room. I filmed it for about 51 seconds before i couldnt see it any longer. See attached video. I was also able to go through the video frame by frame afterwards and zoom in on the object and took several screens shots of the object while zooming in on my Iphone 8 plus. Im going to ask around and see if anyone else has seen the object over the next few days. I have submitted the actual video just now, AND the" zoomed in" images that i took screen shots of afterwards while viewing the video frame by frame myself to make sense of what i saw. Thank you

Posted 2021-12-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 144232
Occurred: 2018-11-23 05:30 Local
Reported: 2018-12-31 05:32 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Wayland, MI, USA

Shape: Circle


Two very bright unmoving objects just faded away mysteriously like nothing i have ever seen before in the sky

I was looking up at the sky and at about North West, I saw two very bright "Stars." I was scanning the sky while letting the dog out and saw the full moon just to the left of Orion which was about due West. I continued scanning East and saw Jupiter behind me at about NWW. As I began scanning back to look at Orion, I noticed two very bright "stars", brighter than Jupiter. I thought to myself, these weren't here a minute ago. So I just stared at them and they just began fading away to nothing. They were not moving that I could tell, just fading away the way a very bright shooting star fades, but not as quickly, and at the same exact pace. These objects were the distance away from each other approximately the distance of half the constellation Orion.

Posted 2019-01-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 123259
Occurred: 2015-10-31 20:00 Local
Reported: 2015-11-01 06:19 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Wayland, KY, USA

Shape: Teardrop
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Halloween night, two green ghost shapes, fleeting across the night sky!

two ghost-shape fleeting across sky.



Posted 2015-11-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 110489
Occurred: 2014-06-21 23:20 Local
Reported: 2014-06-21 21:12 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Wayland, NY, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Fireball sighted moving across the sky in the Finger Lakes.

At approximately 11:20 pm Eastern on June 21, 2014, I witnessed what I can only describe as an orange fireball moving across the sky at a moderate speed. I was in my back yard in Wayland, NY, just south of the Finger Lakes, Hemlock and Canandaigua Lakes specifically. I noticed the fireball when it was approximately 60 degrees above the horizon. It moved on what seemed to be a straight trajectory from the northeast to the southwest. As the fireball moved to the southwest, it remained fairly regular in brightness and shape until it was past my location, when it dimmed until I could no longer see it.

After a few seconds, it reappeared a bit smaller and less intense and then it appeared to “flash” as a silvery mark in the sky. Eventually it moved far enough that I lost it against the ambient light nearer the southwest horizon.

The sky was very clear and the fireball was very bright compared to the stars in the sky tonight. The fireball seemed to be exactly th! at, a fireball- its shape was not totally regular, it appeared to have actual flames, not just a glowing light. It was much larger than any star or planet as seen with the naked eye but smaller than the moon.

It made no sound that I could hear apart from any other noise this evening.

My initial reaction was to record the fireball with my phone. The video does not show nearly the amount of detail or intensity that I was able to observe, but does provide an approximate record of how long it was visible.

My second thought was that it was a sky lantern, but after just a few seconds it was evident that that it was too bright, moving too fast, and moving laterally instead of vertically. I have spent too much time camping or at the lake to think this was a lantern.

After it was clear that I wouldn’t be able to see the fireball again, I called NUFORC and filed this report.

Posted 2014-06-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 101295
Occurred: 2011-07-15 23:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2013-08-17 23:25 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Wayland, MI, USA

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

I saw a fireball that was actually some sort of plane

My friend and I were driving South on US-131 in Allegan County. We were 5-10 minutes NW of Wayland, MI when we noticed an orange/amber fireball SE of our position. I estimate its angle of elevation was 35-40 degrees. It looked to be flying very slowly, if not hovering at times, over downtown Wayland. Having seen similar things before, we decided to follow the aircraft. The aircraft had been traveling S but started traveling SSE once we got closer. When we reached our exit, we turned E. The aircraft remained visible the entire time, save for a brief moment when it disappeared behind some trees on our horizon. Regaining sight of the aircraft, we turned into a parking lot facing N to observe. After a moment, we realized the aircraft was now heading due South and was going to fly directly over us.

As we pulled into the parking lot, I estimate the aircrafts angle of elevation was 30-35 degrees and steadily declined until passing overhead. I'd say the aircraft remained under 150 yds in the air, at all times. As the aircraft approached, the first things we noticed were two lights on its nose pointing forward. That's to say, it had headlights very similar to a car. The aircraft also had 5-6 white lights on its underside. The aircraft didn't have visible registration lettering, wings, propellers, a tail, cylindrical shapes, or navigation lights. The aircraft was small, dark, and triangular. It made a sound very similar to a jet, but was much quieter. We didn’t see any afterburn. Even thought it was directly overhead, we were able to converse comfortably. As the aircraft passed overhead, it was hard to discern the finer details of the body, perhaps from all the bright lights on its exterior.

With the object now traveling away, we got in our car and headed for home. The distance from where we witnessed the aircraft to our home is 5 minutes by car. After 10-15 minutes of being home, we heard a sound very similar to what we had just heard, flying overhead. We stepped out on the back porch and saw the aircraft fly directly over the house were in, traveling S. The night continued without further incident.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2013-08-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 82481
Occurred: 2011-07-14 22:00 Local
Reported: 2011-07-15 11:38 Pacific
Duration: 45 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Wayland, MI, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Two "fireballs," 20 minutes apart, in different counties.

While driving south, in Kent County, traveling at approx. 65 mph, I noticed a yellow-amber light off to my left. The object appeared to be below the cloud ceiling, appeared to be stationary at first. The object then began to travel NW; the object traveled a short distance, then stopped. The object repeated this maneuver 3-4 times before traveling steadily NNW and continuing on its trajectory. I viewed the object for 5-6 minutes, (during which the aforementioned events occurred) until the object was in a position as such that I could not view it from my vehicle window and continue to drive safely.

15-20 Minutes Later...

While traveling East, in Kalamazoo County, at approx. 65 mph, I noticed another yellow-amber light remaining stationary. I approximate the angle of elevation to be between 55-70 degrees. I viewed this object for 3-4 minutes, all the while remaining stationary. The object's luminosity began to dim; simultaneously, the object began to lose its yellow-amber hue, quite quickly, and began to turn a blue-white color. I watched as the object dimmed and disappeared from the sky.

Posted 2011-07-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 80489
Occurred: 2011-03-16 16:30 Local
Reported: 2011-03-16 08:27 Pacific
Duration: 45 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: Wayland, MI, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

One giant disc speeding West near Gun Lake

I and others that were asleep at 5:30 this morning heard a loud sound that lasted 45 seconds that woke us up. It must have been traveling at least 700 mph and sounded low to the ground, airplanes came after it and weren't nearly as loud.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2011-03-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 44318
Occurred: 2005-06-08 10:25 Local
Reported: 2005-06-08 20:49 Pacific
Duration: 30-45 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Wayland, MI, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Bright orange bobbing light

I went out on my front porch to smoke and in the NE sky over my neighbors house I saw a very bright orange light moving to the south. It grabbed my attention because it was bobbing in the sky unlike a plane or star. It was moving up and down as it traveled south. As it went behind my neighbors tree in thier front yard I tried to keep my eye on it...finally when the light reappeared it was far off and very small and disappeared immediately. It was gone in probably 3 - 5 seconds. This is something I have never seen in my life. I love to watch falling stars and this was not one of them. I stayed outside for about 5 minutes trying to rationalize what I just saw and I saw several jets in the air with thier blinking lights just to tell myself this was something different; and it was. That is why I am at this site now. This was not ordinary.

Posted 2005-06-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 72055
Occurred: 2005-05-01 03:00 Local
Reported: 2009-09-03 12:44 Pacific
Duration: 1 or 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Wayland, MA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Light or energy flying object no lareger than 10-12 inches entered bedroom on more than one occassion

This actually occured on more than one occassion: I was sleeping and a flickering light form entered my room consisting of flickering lights in yellow red and green but all one color at one time( all green or all yellow or all red) . It was sort of rectangular craft shaped but not a disc. It was only 10 inches or so across. I was not afraid and simply watched it in a strange state of numbness. It moved from the window swinging around the end of the bed and then settling into position slightly above me on my right. I was completely aware of being remotely "observed" but did not feel afraid....it was like a floationg camera without supstance that I could see..just light/energy After it flew out again I simply lay down and went back to sleep. When it happened again a few days later I did not even really sit up...I saw it enter and just lay still... I was being observed..but I felt that perhaps it could read more information about me than just visual but that is only my impression or feeling at the time. I had no sence of impending danger.

I would like to know if such things have ever been reported before. I have since moved away from that house and have had other unusual experiences but not the same and I have not "met" anyone who is other worldly that I can recall. I hope it stays that way.



Posted 2009-12-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 40830
Occurred: 2004-11-29 05:21 Local
Reported: 2004-11-29 17:11 Pacific
Duration: 15-20 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Wayland, MA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

Gold,spinning, 3 lights that we visible but not flickering, went in a circle then dissapeared, was lower than airplanes.

Gold,spinning, 3 lights that we visible but not flickering, went in a circle then dissapeared. was lower than airplanes and was pretty big

Posted 2004-12-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 40828
Occurred: 2004-11-29 05:21 Local
Reported: 2004-11-29 16:40 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Wayland, MA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams, Aircraft nearby

gold, spinning, 3 non flickering lights pretty big, close enough for some details to be seen

GOLD, went in a circle, moved pretty fast, close enough for some details to be seen, 3 visible gold lights that didnt flicker, was spinning

Posted 2004-12-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 49332
Occurred: 2001-03-08 01:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2006-02-28 00:45 Pacific
Duration: 1hr
No of observers: 2

Location: Wayland, MA, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

3 Large Orbs and many smaller Orbs in plain view in woods adjacent to my house. Moved with intellegence

The incident hapened a few days after we got plowed with a couple feet of snow in march of 2001.

Iam glad I have a place to post this because what happened was very strange. I hope this is not too long.

I have lived in wayland my whole life and live adjacent to miles of conservation land. No one knows these woods as well as I do because I have been out there almost everyday of every season since the early 1980s. There are no conservation trails in this area and does not see any traffic from dog walkers or hikers. The area is sort of swampy which I think helps keep people away. Its the kind of area that if you know your way it can take you five minutes to get to a point that would take someone else an hour to get to. I love it.

Anyway. There sure is history out there in those woods. European settlers have been in that exact spot since the early 1640s. My woods was home to one of the original families. They were millers and provided timber for most of the early town works. But unusually they were quite far from their neighbors. Also there is an ancient fishing site thousands of years old well within walking distance. This site was also intricate in the king Philip Indian insurgency and the revolutionary war. This is a brief history of what I know about my woods out there. Maybe this pertains? At about 1.00 am I was in my yard letting my dog relieve himself before bedtime. Looking out into the forest I noticed a light, that looked to me like a candle being walked around through the trees at waist length. Knowing that there are no houses in that direction and that there should be no one walking in the woods at night I became curious and went with my dog about 30 yards in, past my yard to get a better look. I couldn’t see much but something was happening out there. The flickers of light I was seeing had no explanation, had never been there before, and shouldn’t have been there at all. But I could still hardly make them out, there was a hundred yards between us and lots of trees. I went inside woke up a family member and told them there were people in the woods with candles or flashlights. We went into the yard but the small flicker of lights didn’t impress enough to go out there and check it out.

The next day my friend heard about this from me and begged me to go out there with him at around the same time, I agreed. We bundled up, I grabbed a B.B. rifle(makes me feel safer) and we headed out.

Immediately we saw the same thing I had seen the night before, small flickering through the trees just above ground level. We were about 300 yards in when suddenly there was like a camera flashbulb going of in front of us deep in the woods, about another 80 yards in front of us. Then one way to the right of the last flash, but still in front of us, then a flash to the left. Real bright flashes. The flashes then started flashing towards us. We were talking to each other saying "you’re seeing this, right?" There were about 30 separate flashes from different directions in front of us gradually getting closer and closer. One flashed about 3 feet from my face. It looked like someone struck a huge match of different colors but it was not fire, it was all of a sudden light from nowhere. They flashed about twice the size of a basketball and the one that flashed next to my face seemed like slow motion. When it flashed there was slow motion. that’s the best I can explain it.

My friend and I looked at each other and ran back to the house as fast as we could out of sheer terror.(I should have stayed but my stomach got very queasy) When we got back to my yard. We talked about what we saw and decided it would be stupid not to go back out and really experience and try to interact and get to the bottom of the "ORBS" that just seemed to display at least some intelligence by coming directly to us.

We walked in complete darkness back to the exact spot we had 25 minutes earlier seen the orbs. No flashes or peeks of light through the woods greeted us. We couldn’t believe they were gone. So we went farther. When we reached about 3 quarters of a mile into the woods(significantly farther than the initial experience)we saw light.

Almost to the top of one of the oldest trees in the woods(an old field corner marker next to a stone wall)were 3 Huge orb lights circling this tree!!! We were about 25 yards away and they were suddenly in very clear view, literally in perfect view of us. They were about 6ft by 6ft and one was slightly larger and had a slightly different tint than the others they made no sound. We watched in shock, from an excellent vantage point for what felt like it was 10 minutes. I still had the B.B gun and we took turns looking through the scope at them for an even better view. They were totally unnatural and foreign to anything I had ever seen before. They had a natural very bright bio luminescence sort of look to them but the spheres themselves did look metallic. They slowly circled, lucidly, near the top of the tree.

We started panicking about how we might start to get out of there. Continuing to face them we backed away. I turned and started running as fast as I could. When I turned to look back all three orbs had stopped circling the tree and had begun to follow us in a single file 10-12ft above ground. They were slow and didn’t catch up to us.

We ran all the way back to the yard non stop. In my yard we were safe. We kneeled down panting, relaying to each other what had just happened. We had not said a peep to each other during the whole encounter trying not to give ourselves away.

I haven’t seen anything similar out there since. Not even the initial flashbulb things through the trees no matter how deep I am out there. But in that spot, where the tree they circled is located the branches of all the surrounding trees are bent in the same direction in a very odd and obvious way. This, like the rest of the story is very hard to explain. Never the less it happened and it proved to me that there is much more out there that still is unexplained by modern science.

If you have had a similiar encounter or have questions email me at ((e-address deleted))



NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2006-03-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 49352
Occurred: 1980-03-15 01:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2006-03-01 08:57 Pacific
Duration: approx 30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Wayland, MA, USA

Shape: Light


Bright yellow light accelerates above road in Wayland, MA, to a high speed noiselessly.

Bearing east on rt 30, (commonwealth ave) and slowing to turn south on Oak st. a passenger and myself saw a bright golden/yellow light in the distance seemingly a couple hundred feet above the road and following the path of the road. It was difficult to guage the distance and the light was not flashing so I immediately pulled over to see what it was since it was moving fairly slowly. As I pulled over and opened my window I stuck my head out to see the light immediately accelerate at an incredible rate over my vehicle and continue (possibly) following the path of the road. During the initial part of the siting we watched the light for perhaps 15-20 seconds. After the light accelerated I jumped out to see where it was going and it was gone from sight in only a few seconds. It was a quiet night and we did not hear any sounds from the object whatsoever. Less than a minute later a police officer pulled over and questioned us.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2006-03-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 46286
Occurred: 1972-07-21 22:00 Local
Reported: 2005-09-15 14:15 Pacific
Duration: 10-12 min
No of observers: 4

Location: Wayland, MA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Brilliant lights in the sky 100 fee directly overhead on a dead quiet nite,Without a sound,Nothing.

Dead quiet, warm nite beside a large field. I was in a house with some friends at the edge of the open field. A friend came running inside where the rest of us were and yelled "come outside quick and look at this".

We went to the back yard and on the far edge of the field,three large red lights were assending up from behind the trees (about 1/2 mile away at the back of the field). They came to a stop about 50 ft above the trees (or so it looked from that distance]. About 10 seconds later two very large white lights came up from the same place and stopped above the red lights. After a few seconds the white lights started moving in our direction,very slowly and the red lights went back down behind the trees.

As the lights got about halfway across the field the hairs on my neck were standing up. We all knew something wasn't right about this. There wasn't a sound coming from anywhere. A dog about a half mile away started barking. It was so quiet that nite you had no problem hearing it.

As the lights got closer, one of them veered off to the right over the trees about halfway over the field towards us. The other one was heading right over our heads. We were paralyzed.Before this we all had joked since childhood about ufo's and space men.

As the other one got closer {the est distance from the ground would be about 100'}I was going to run,but somehow stayed.The huge white light was just about over us and it started, very slowly to turn to the right over the trees.The whole time the thing that was the most obvious was that there was no sound or noise from it at all.Dead silent, directly over our heads,moving and not making any noise at all.The light was so bright you couldn't make out any shape. The light at about 100 ft over our heads was approx 50' in diameter.Incredibly bright. I don't know of anything that flies and can make precise turns like it did in the pitch dark of night that doesn,t make a sound.We looked at each other and nobody said a word. Something inside you lets you know when something is not right.With all of our knowledge,intelligence and reasoning we just knew what we saw.I happened apon a TV show and saw your web site, is why after all this time I feel relieved to tell someone that doesn't "yea OK sure" I have never been as frightened and thrilled at the same time in my life.

Posted 2005-10-11