NUFORC Sighting 86963

Occurred: 2011-07-04 21:05 Local
Reported: 2012-02-02 13:10 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Traverse City, MI, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Lights on object

Red-Orange Orbs appeared over crowd prior to Fireworks Show in Traverse City, Mi. July 4, 2011

I was sitting in the crowd watching a band at an outdoor concert for the July 4th weekend in Traverse City, Michigan at approx. 9:05 PM. The fireworks display was going to start after the band finished. There were several thousand people in the crowd as this was the beginning of the National Cherry Festival. My buddy sitting next to me said, "Hey, what is that?"

As we looked up in the crystal clear deep blue sky, there was a perfectly round reddish orange orb, which looked like a red hot glowing metal ball. It made no noise, had no trail, just hovered and slowly moved across the sky, then winked out. Everyone in the crowd was looking at this thing including the band, when suddenly two more appear from a different direction. They also hovered for 1-2 minutes then winked out. Then one more appeared from where the first one was seen, hovered for 1-2 minutes, then winked out.

That was the last we saw of the orbs that night, the whole time was about 5 minutes total.

I managed to get pictures of these objects, although my hands were shaking, which explains why the pictures show the orbs with tails which is me shaking the camera. One of the photos curiously shows strange colored contrails in the area of the orb. These could not be seen with the naked eye, I only saw them when reviewing the pictures later. I would normally not file this type of report but saw on the NUFON website that there were similar sightings the same night in the Saginaw/Bay City Michigan area at the same time and with a similar description. Pictures will be sent by e-mail.

Posted 2012-02-03

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