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Occurred : 8/18/1978
Reported: 12/30/2003
Posted: 1/17/2004
Location: Harvey (Marquette), MI
Shape: Disk
Duration: 3-5+min

We could see human forms inside while craft that silently hovers

Coming around a country corner that lined around a field, my brother and I saw this disk shaped silver air craft that hovered with no sound. In the front of this craft was a window, if you will, "mounted" on a more of a dome shape verses a rounded shape, which seemed to occupy the front top 1/4 to 1/2 of craft.

It appeared that two human forms were in this window with what looked like a panel in front of them, appearing sort of like a desk or control board of some sort. I say human forms, because they seem to have a round shape for a head, shoulders with arms and a body or trunk. I could not see their faces, clothing, skin, nor hair. I could only make out the shape of a human-like form. There were two of them I believe, in this window area of the craft. This craft was that close!

Just above the tree tops. I'm not sure if it was adrenalin from fear but my lips rolled on my teeth! I mean there was not even a drop of saliva in my mouth. That is how frightened I was. I slowed my vehicle for only moments, I'm sure. We then drove away very fast, with my heart pounding! My brother and I never uttered a word to each other at the time. I was 17 years old he was just 12 years old.

I lived on my own in a cabin on the Chocolay River in Michigan which feeds into Lake Superior, not far down stream from my cabin. This was very close to K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base, which was active at the time. I called the Air Force base and reported the sighting. I'm not sure with whom I spoke, but I was told there was nothing on the radar, (as if they'd tell me whether or not there was), and that if it was just above the tree tops they wouldn't see it on radar.

After calling K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base, we were still so frightened, my little brother slept with me that night. This was a one bedroom cabin, but he would of slept on the couch under a normal situation. There were lace curtains on the two pain (one on top of the other) slide up windows. Close to the ground, if you where outside the bottom of the window would be at about waist level. There was no way to totally close the outer window completely from the inside.

Not long after we had arrived home and I had called the Air Force Base with the  initial report, I swear this craft, hovered over my cabin (which is about two miles from where the initial incident occurred. My little brother and I just clung to one another with fear, light from this craft shown through the windows of the bedroom. Now I was used to B-52s flying over constantly and never had this happen before nor after this incident.

Since then I have moved out of the my cabin there in Michigan. But, from that day on until up until about 4 years ago,  I have had dreams, or more precisely nightmares of UFO’s in the sky at my cabin there, down by the Chocolay River and also by another home I had previously lived in on Silver Creek Road, which are both in close proximity of where the original incident occurred.

My brother and I didn't and don't speak of this incident. I'm now 42 years old and he's 37. We both have families of our own now and have not experienced some thing like this since. Of course as time has gone on I'm sure he has as well as my self, talked ourselves into believing it didn't happen. But you know what? Some thing actually did happen and we couldn't explain it and we still can't. So for what it's worth this is my UFO story. Not everyone has one, but I sure do.
 

A big thanks goes out to NUFORC for this sighting report.