DETROIT – Michigan residents have reported 36 UFO sightings this year, most recently on June 29 a person reported seeing a mass group of reflective objects near Detroit.
“Mass grouping of high altitude random pattern reflective objects — dozens,” the report to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) said. “Dozens of highly reflective high altitude objects moving north at extremely high altitude. Captured on video — iPhone. Not the best. No aircraft visible. Daylight clear skies. Original sighting as they dispersed was a mass clustering that began to drift. Star link said not visible here for days. No sound. No signs of propulsion.”
The sighting happened at 7:40 p.m. and lasted about 10 minutes, the report contends.
Just a day earlier, on June 28, an individual near Port Huron reported seeing “a cylinder shape white craft hovering for about 5 seconds then slowly went behind clouds.” The person said they were about a quarter mile away from the object.
“I looked out kitchen window and noticed a big, long white cylinder shaped craft hovering high in sky,” the person told NUFORC. “It started moving slowly and went behind a cloud! It appeared to be white yet glowing very bright! I feel up close it would have been at least the size of a School bus.”
Is Michigan a UFO hotspot? Here’s what to know about recent sightings.
UFO sightings in Michigan in 2025
Historically, Michigan ranks 10th in the U.S. for reports of “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP), according to NUFORC, with 3,794 sightings since an incident in 1936. That’s just 24 behind North Carolina. California ranks first, with 16,735, almost twice as many as the second-place state, Florida, which has 8,624 reported sightings.
So far in 2025, Michigan has had 36 sightings, from Au Train in the Upper Peninsula, along the Lake Superior, to Cassopolis in Southwest Michigan. Some of them are suspected to be drones.
Not every sighting is reported to the NUFORC. A search of X, formerly Twitter, for references to UFOs or UAPs in Michigan showed a few sightings in 2025 that are not in the NUFORC database. Most did not provide an exact location in Michigan.
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