UFOs SIGHTED IN UNIONVILLE AND FAIRGROVE, MICHIGAN
UFO ROUNDUP Volume 4 Number 15 April 12, 1999 Editor: Joseph Trainor Masinaigan@aol.com

Two small towns in "the Thumb" of Michigan were the focus of UFO activity Tuesday night, March 16, 1999.

"Adiel DeBoever said he was the first to call Tuscola County Central Dispatch around 8:30 p.m. March 16 just after he spotted the lights in the sky hovering over his home."

"DeBoever said this is the first time he's seen lights like this. He said they were bright orange in color and looked to be shining from the inside of an object."

"'The lights weren't like a spotlight shining down from the sky, but they were very noticeable,' he said."

The sightings took place in Unionville, Michigan (population 590), a town on Highway 138 about 113 miles (181 kilometers) north of Detroit.

"The sighting by DeBoever was just one of five reports that night by area residents who say they saw an unidentified flying object."

"DeBoever, who lives on Cottage Drive near Unionville, said the lights all blinked out of sight and then came back on."

"DeBoever thinks as far as distance, the lights probably were over half a mile away to the east, just above a Department of Natural Resources (DNR) wetland when he saw them."

"'They spread out the entire length of a football field. There were two sets of lights which were bright orange. The large one could be seen further away,' he said. 'When my nephew came out of the house. I said, 'Eddie, there's a UFO in the sky.' just joking and then the lights blinked out, but came on again later.'"

"Officials at Tuscola County Central Dispatch say they have no explanation for what the lights were that night...Shortly after DeBoever's call, Central Dispatch received a call at 8:57 p.m. from a Juanita township resident who reported seeing orange lights in the sky."

"Just two minutes later, a Novesta township man called with another sighting. Callers from Fremont township and the Fairgrove area" (population 592), another town on Highway 138 approximately 13 miles (21 kilometers) southwest of Unionville, "followed. The callers described seeing orange lights in the shape of a football field, while the Fairgrove residents reported seeing a Z-shaped formation in the sky."

"Officials from the Selfridge (Michigan) Air National Guard base said they couldn't offer any explanation about the lights in the sky and no sightings were reported to the base."

However, Michigan ufologist Jeffrey S. Westover interviewed news reporter Jay Brandow of WNEM-TV, Channel 5, a CBS affiliate in Saginaw, Michigan. Westover wrote, "Brandow told me that Selfridge had sent two F-16s into the area" the night of the UFO sightings. (See the newspapers Marlette, Mich. Leader and the Huron Daily Tribune of Bad Axe, Mich. for March 31, 1999, "Unusual sightings in the sky peak interest in The Thumb." Many thanks to Jeffrey S. Westover for forwarding the newspaper article.)