UFO. United States

Date:  July 28 1978
Location:  Ludington, MI
Time:  11:45 PM. 
Summary:  The coast guard station gets a phone call from a citizen who reports that two people have seen a strange object over the lake. Coast Guardsman Don Clark sees it too. He says that he along with others saw a cluster of white lights, one of them flashing, and one steady green light, near the shoreline. It was “very, very bright”. It proceeded westerly and then accelerated silently over the horizon “faster than a plane”. As the object was heading towards their sister station at Two Rivers,WI , Ludington radioed them about the object. 
Source:  CUFOS sighting report forms by Gary Randall [Two Rivers CG], and Don Clark [Ludington CG]; “Complete details on that Michigan Coast Guard case”, International UFO Reporter 4 (2): August 1979; Traverse City(MI) RECORD EAGLE, August 4, 1978; Muskegon(MI) CHRONICLE, July 30, 1978. [sighting was also written up in the National Inquirer,February 13, 1979 for what that is worth]. )

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Date:  July 28 1978
Location:  Ludington, MI
Time:  11:57 PM. 
Summary:  Six coastguardsmen were at the window of the station to watch it show up. What they thought they saw was a cylinder or ball with a variety of colored lights. These lights were white, red, green, orange, blue, and flashing one light at a time. Their brilliance was such that it hurt the eyes. The thing passed at a distance of about 5 miles, and for all they could tell was silent. Pictures were taken. If it could be assumed that this was the same object as on the Michigan side [a real coincidence if it were not], then a rather easy calculation of ~1200mph crossing speed was make-able. The thing wobbled as it flew, and then stopped abruptly, looking as if it had “hit a brick wall”. It then whisked out of sight “in seconds”. Then the personnel called a third station [at Sturgeon Bay, WI], warning them. 
Source:  CUFOS sighting report forms by Gary Randall [Two Rivers CG], and Don Clark [Ludington CG]; “Complete details on that Michigan Coast Guard case”, International UFO Reporter 4 (2): August 1979; Traverse City(MI) RECORD EAGLE, August 4, 1978; Muskegon(MI) CHRONICLE, July 30, 1978. [sighting was also written up in the National Inquirer,February 13, 1979 for what that is worth]. )

Date:  July 28 1978
Location:  Sturgeon Bay
Time:  Midnight
Summary:   Coast guard personnel saw the same or similar looking object passing by at high speed and at higher altitude.
Source:  CUFOS sighting report forms by Gary Randall [Two Rivers CG], and Don Clark [Ludington CG]; “Complete details on that Michigan Coast Guard case”, International UFO Reporter 4 (2): August 1979; Traverse City(MI) RECORD EAGLE, August 4, 1978; Muskegon(MI) CHRONICLE, July 30, 1978. [sighting was also written up in the National Inquirer,February 13, 1979 for what that is worth].

Date:  July 29 1978
Location:  Ludington, MI
Time:  12:01 AM.
Summary:  Ludington personnel saw a second object, moving at very high speed and flashing red lights and a strobe-like appearance. Three minutes later it was within eyesight of Two Rivers, who described it the same way. 
Source:  CUFOS sighting report forms by Gary Randall [Two Rivers CG], and Don Clark [Ludington CG]; “Complete details on that Michigan Coast Guard case”, International UFO Reporter 4 (2): August 1979; Traverse City(MI) RECORD EAGLE, August 4, 1978; Muskegon(MI) CHRONICLE, July 30, 1978. [sighting was also written up in the National Inquirer,February 13, 1979 for what that is worth]. 

Date:  July 29 1978
Location:   Green Bay, WI
Time:  12:25 AM.
Summary:  Lighthouse reported what could have been the same object, described as very fast and flashing red and white lights erratically. 
Source:  CUFOS sighting report forms by Gary Randall [Two Rivers CG], and Don Clark [Ludington CG]; “Complete details on that Michigan Coast Guard case”, International UFO Reporter 4 (2): August 1979; Traverse City(MI) RECORD EAGLE, August 4, 1978; Muskegon(MI) CHRONICLE, July 30, 1978. [sighting was also written up in the National Inquirer,February 13, 1979 for what that is worth].

Date:  July 29 1978
Location:  Green Bay, WI
Time:  12:45 AM.
Summary:   Another odd light showed up, possibly part of all this or possibly just “excitement” [as it lacked some of the strangeness of the other multi-witnessed sightings]. There may be more to all this but later sightings get more controversial. The main loose end is the film. The photographer didn’t trust anyone else with the film and had it developed locally. The pictures [not seen by this writer but broadcast on national television] supposedly show a somewhat streaky set of colored lights. A myth grew up that this film had been mysteriously lost after being sent to the CG office in Cleveland, OH, but that apparently applies to a second set of pictures taken by another person of an “event” that sounds like stars which occurred on a later day. 
Source:  CUFOS sighting report forms by Gary Randall [Two Rivers CG], and Don Clark [Ludington CG]; “Complete details on that Michigan Coast Guard case”, International UFO Reporter 4 (2): August 1979; Traverse City(MI) RECORD EAGLE, August 4, 1978; Muskegon(MI) CHRONICLE, July 30, 1978. [sighting was also written up in the National Inquirer,February 13, 1979 for what that is worth].