We made what I hoped was a fairly complete list of mass UFO sightings in the US in our book, “Who They Are: And What They’re Up To,” but we missed an important one that most certainly should have been included.
We were introduced to the incident by an episode of the “Unsolved Mysteries” television series on Netflix called, “Something in the Sky.”
The incident is described on Wikipedia, “On March 8, 1994 more than 300 people reported a sighting of multiple UFOs in West Michigan, United States. The UFOs were described as resembling flickering Christmas lights, consisting of five or six objects, cylindrically shaped or circles with blue, red, white and green lights. According to the Chicago Tribune, there were over 300 witnesses in 42 counties of Michigan (including Muskegon, Ottawa, Berrien and Allegan counties).”
The “Something in the Sky” show tells the story of this meteorologist, Jack Bushong, who was on duty at the National Weather Service in Muskegon during the incident.
The program starts with several compelling eye-witness reports and then gives some background on Bushong.
What the hundreds of witnesses saw, and what Bushong tracked on radar, was a group of very bright lights moving over Lake Michigan. Sometimes the lights moved together in formation, sometimes one of them would break off the group a speed away.
One witness on the show described four incredibly bright lights moving over the lake near her home. One of them broke away and sped away at incredible speed. The remaining three moved slowly back and forth for over a half hour. The lights were so bright, nothing could be seen behind them.
Another witness saw a single large light break into five separate smaller lights that all shot off in different directions.
Others saw separate lights join into one larger light or link up with another group of lights.
All the close witnesses describe the UAPs or UFOs as completely silent.
“The sightings were reported to 9-1-1 and were observed by police and a meteorologist at the National Weather Service radar at Muskegon County Airport. Muskegon is a town in west Michigan along the east shore of Lake Michigan,” said Wikipedia.
The meteorologist mentioned in the report was Bushong.
A Mutual UFO Network investigation “ruled out most earthly explanations.” To MUFON the event remains unexplained.
On the evening of the incident, Bushong was contacted by the Ottawa County 9-1-1 Dispatch asking Bushong to do a radar track in the area that had received about 60 UFO phone reports.
The “strange lights” were being seen in the southern Ottawa County area near the north Allegan County border near the town of Holland City.
Bushong complied and checked the radar in the reported area. He tracked a bright, circular blob at about 6,000 feet, over the lake just west of South Haven, moving west, away from the east shore.
Bushong said on the “Unsolved Mysteries” show, “In all aspects it looked like an aircraft, it just did not act like an aircraft. We know it was solid, it was smooth, it seemed extremely reflective, very high polished metal, we can detect that by the amount of energy coming back on the echo.”
The blob then stopped and hovered for about 15 seconds. Bushong said this was highly unusual. Balloons can do this, but balloons rarely fly at night in the winter over Lake Michigan.
In fact, at this time the lake was almost frozen over except for a large region in the center of the southern part of the lake. The blob was flying toward this area of the lake when it was first spotted by Bushong. This fact resonates with importance to me; I’ll explain later.
As the blob moved over the liquid part of the lake, it suddenly broke into a group of separate blobs that stacked on top of each other about 5,000 feet apart.
They then started moving in a triangulating grid pattern over the lake. One of the group would move 20 miles away, and the other two would rejoin it in a triangular formation again.
“I can’t think of anything in nature that would play follow the leader like that,” said Bushong.
The group of three blobs moved over the center of the southern part of Lake Michigan, the only ice-free area of the lake, then they stopped and hovered there.
Bushong watched them for two to three hours. During that time the blobs were “met up by dozens and dozens of other objects that I could see. They were doing incredible feats like going from lower, say like at 4 to 5,000 feet to going as high as 55,000 feet within a matter of seconds, which none of our military aircraft can do at all.”
The UFOs in this case then began exhibiting one of the telltale traits that are unique to UFOs; they began moving at hyper-sonic speeds.
“At one point I saw it move 20 miles out over Lake Michigan in less than a second. So it’s moving at 72,000 miles an hour. At that speed you can fly from New York to LA in about 2 minutes and there is just no technology I know of that can go that fast,” said Bushong.
Bushong was able to rule out several possible explanations for the lights, “I know it wasn’t swamp gas because the weather radar would actually not be able to see swamp gas. I knew that they were not a super refraction of the radar beam, or a bounce back of the radar back down to the earth, because of their movements and their speeds, but also because by raising the radar antenna to the many degrees that I did up, that eliminates all super refraction possibilities.”
Two airline pilots reported the incident anonymously.
Bushong was ordered by his superiors not to talk about the incident and to give no interviews. The weather service explained the phenomenon as a radar anomaly, but that doesn’t line up with the hundreds and hundreds of eyewitness reports corroborating what Bushong was seeing.
At first he started getting teased by his coworkers, who hung make-shift flying saucers around his office. What started as harmless teasing, became a toxic work environment for Bushong and he was given advice from his friend and supervisor to leave the weather service in Michigan and move out of state.
Bushong relocated to a weather service in Georgia “based solely because of this UFO event.”
The stigma of being a scientist and a UFO witness caused this poor guy to feel pressured out of his job and made to leave his home, family and friends.
Our book describes the government’s policy of handling mass UFO sightings as laid out by the Majestic 12 and Project Blue Book. The Majestic 12 was a 12-man committee, created by President Truman in response to increasing UFO activity. They were all either high ranking military or scientific experts.
From our book…”We know that on Dec. 11, 1952, these experts created Project Blue Book, ostensibly created to further study UFO phenomena, but was really designed to explain the incidents away. This committee was mandated with not only studying UFO activity but also setting policy on how to treat the phenomenon in regard to the public and the media.
We know these policies were to cover up these incidents to the public, while at the same time gathering all pertinent information for themselves.
Under Project Blue Book, the government enacted a policy of lying to the public about what they already knew of UFO activity and anything they subsequently learned.
We know the government cover up policy first utilized public ridicule to humiliate witnesses into silence, if this failed they would use threats against witnesses and their families, and if this failed they would use retaliatory methods such as forcing witnesses out of their jobs, ruining their reputations and careers. Though not actually sanctioned in the manual, we believe that in extreme cases, Project Blue Book operatives would resort to murder. Yes, murder; most of which were explained away as suicides.”
It’s clear to us that Bushong was a victim of Project Blue Book’s ridicule policy. This organization more than any other is responsible for the making of UFO activity into a big hilarious joke.
If you’ve ever made fun of someone who claimed to have seen a UFO, then you have been influenced by this policy.
Bushong became another victim of the Project Blue Book ridicule campaign.
Personally, I have never found anything funny about UFOs. At best, they are a confusing sighting that leaves people uneasy. At the worst, people are abducted in a terrifying, traumatic personal violation. Even if the witness is truly insane and seeing things that aren’t really there, it still isn’t funny; it’s a different kind of tragedy.
After Bushong retired in 2016, he returned to Michigan and has been doing his own research finding nothing but confirmation of his observations from other witnesses.
Another eyewitness report came from a young couple who were camping next to the lake that night. They woke up and saw a “tower of water,” at least 20 feet wide, rising up from the lake very high into the sky, into a bright light.
Rare reports have been made describing UFOs sucking up water into their ships.
The witnesses seeing water rising into the sky during the Michigan incident reminded me of a report I saw on the “After Disclosure” episode of the Netflix series “Top Secret UFO Projects Declassified.”
An investigative journalist named Chase Kloetzke was doing a story on the discovery of previously-unknown ancient pyramids near Pisco, Peru. The Pisco area of Peru is famously known to be a UFO hotspot.
Kloetzke met with the mayor of Pisco, Juan Mendoza Uribe, out in the field near a dried up lake bed near Pisco in January of 2015.
Uribe told her, “There used to be a grand lake there, but the UFOs keep coming down and they steal all their water.” He was concerned for the local farmers who needed the water for their crops and livestock.
Kloetzke was surprised when she realized that Uribe was quite serious and he was sincerely hoping that she as an investigative journalist could help them somehow.
“I want you to help me tell them (the UFOs) to stop taking our water,” Uribe told her, and she was struck by how the existence of UFOs was so matter-of-factly accepted in the region.
“It just struck me that he was so open with this. A UFO came down and just took their water, and he was angry about that and he wanted someone to communicate that,” said Kloetzke.
Those of you who have read our book, know that we believe aliens reside here on earth in underground bases. We believe this Michigan incident is an example of the aliens acquiring a huge amount of freshwater. We believe they literally made a water run.
Living here full time as we believe they do, they would need a regular source of drinking water. If these sources were to run low, they would need to supplement their supply.
We think this is the reason the UFOs conducted a triangulated search of the lake until they found an ice-free area in the middle, was because they were looking for liquid water to take. This is why the ships stopped in the middle of the lake and hovered there for over an hour. This is why witnesses saw a tower of water rising into the sky.
