Traverse City, MI, USA
October 1977 · Traverse City, MI, USA · 1 sources
Two witnesses were parked in a car on a remote bluff overlooking a field and small lake. Around 9:30 PM, the car was suddenly surrounded by very intense bright white cylindrical lights descending from above, approximately the diameter of a gallon milk jug, appearing sequentially and circling the car many times very fast before vanishing. The entire visible event lasted about 1-2 minutes. Despite the apparent brief duration, the witnesses experienced approximately 4.5 hours of missing time — arriving home after 2 AM when they believed only about 30 minutes had passed. The following morning both witnesses suffered identical physical symptoms: eyes crusted with mucus, full-body aches, and mental fogginess. The car was not running during the incident and was started after the event ended. Within a few months the primary witness developed asthma following a prolonged sinus infection.
- Shape
- Cylindrical beams/lights
- Nature
- Unidentified lights surrounding parked vehicle with associated missing time and physiological aftereffects
- Sound
- Absolute silence — no noise whatsoever
- Weather
- Clear, crisp fall evening with stars visible, cloudless
- Site
- Remote bluff overlooking a field and small lake, approximately 500 yards off a dirt road, no houses in view, closest occupied house at least 3 miles away
- Size
- Approximately gallon milk jug diameter (~0.15m) per beam
- Duration
- 1 min
- Time of day
- Night
- Local time
- 9:30pm
- Theme
- cigar_cylinder
The unmodified record(s) the master event was assembled from.
NIDS-DOCNIDS-DOC:aec67b69:128 fields
- city
- Traverse City
- date
- 1977-10-01
- site
- Remote bluff overlooking a field and small lake, approximately 500 yards off a dirt road, no houses in view, closest occupied house at least 3 miles away
- shape
- Cylindrical beams/lights
- sound
- Absolute silence — no noise whatsoever
- state
- MI
- country
- USA
- weather
- Clear, crisp fall evening with stars visible, cloudless
- date_raw
- October 1977
- incident
- Two witnesses were parked in a car on a remote bluff overlooking a field and small lake. Around 9:30 PM, the car was suddenly surrounded by very intense bright white cylindrical lights descending from above, approximately the diameter of a gallon milk jug, appearing sequentially and circling the car many times very fast before vanishing. The entire visible event lasted about 1-2 minutes. Despite the apparent brief duration, the witnesses experienced approximately 4.5 hours of missing time — arriving home after 2 AM when they believed only about 30 minutes had passed. The following morning both witnesses suffered identical physical symptoms: eyes crusted with mucus, full-body aches, and mental fogginess. The car was not running during the incident and was started after the event ended. Within a few months the primary witness developed asthma following a prolonged sinus infection.
- time_local
- 9:30pm
- trajectory
- Lights descended from above, circled the car multiple times rapidly, then vanished
- case_source
- NIDS
- emf_effects
- Car was not running when incident happened; started normally after event ended
- size_meters
- Approximately gallon milk jug diameter (~0.15m) per beam
- time_of_day
- Night
- source_quote
- All of a sudden the car was surrounded by very intense bright white lights. They were like cylinders coming down about as big around as a gallon milk jug...These lights went around the car many times very fast then simply vanished...She then told me it was 2 a.m.!
- catalog_entry
- NIDS-DOC:aec67b69:1
- ground_traces
- Grass was clearly illuminated by the lights hitting the ground; witnesses did not return to check for physical traces
- location_text
- Near Lancaster Lake in Northern Michigan - about 5 miles west of I-75 and about 1 mile south of C-66.
- witness_count
- 2
- source_doc_sha
- aec67b69e3d83e328f64fc9d65fc2d0174857ea7001abbe4f1385ec505360d47
- light_emissions
- Very intense bright white lights, cylindrical beams descending from above, appearing and extinguishing sequentially, circling the car
- witness_sex_age
- Primary witness female, age 40-49 at time of report (approximately 17 at time of incident); second witness sex/age unspecified
- duration_minutes
- 1
- witness_reactions
- Witnesses screamed, were petrified, experienced uncontrollable shaking, deep dread and fright, sensation of air being sucked out of car; fled the scene after lights vanished; both experienced missing time of approximately 4.5 hours; both suffered identical physical symptoms the following morning (crusted eyes, body aches, mental fogginess); primary witness reports lasting psychological impact and developed asthma within months
- witness_occupation
- Not specified (primary witness associated with Cherry Central, Traverse City MI at time of report)
- nature_of_phenomenon
- Unidentified lights surrounding parked vehicle with associated missing time and physiological aftereffects
- NIDS-DOCNIDS-DOC
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