NUFORC Sighting 36573

Occurred: 2004-04-26 21:30 Local
Reported: 2004-04-27 16:03 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Niles, MI, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

3 extremely bright lights all in a row hover above trees on side of road, move, then come back, then take off in seconds.

My Daughter and I were driving home. Immediately when I turned onto the road, we saw something hovering in the sky. It was about 40 or 50 feet above the trees, right on the side of the road where we were driving. It was 3 extremely bright lights, all in a row close to each other. I could not see the craft itself because the lights were so bright in front of it, but I would say the lights were on 1 craft and not 3 seperate ones. The lights were not shining straight ahead, or pointing straight down at the ground, but kind of in between. They looked like huge spotlights and illuminated the sky and trees all around it. The lights were white. I pulled over on the side of the road to watch it. After about a minute, maybe a little more, it moved a few blocks west pretty rapidly, still at the same height. Then came right back just as fast to the origional location. When this happened, I got scared and put the car in gear to drive again. As I was doing this, It flew south and up higher and was out of sight within 4 or 5 seconds. There was no sound from it at all. I know other people had to have seen it. It was above houses and it would be hard to miss such bright lights out your window. Another car behind me pulled over and watched it too. A truly amazing sight to see.

Posted 2004-04-30