Flint youth, 14, reports sighting of UFO

Similar reports bring researcher to state to determine if we really ‘are not alone’

Denis Roberts, 14, was sitting in his yard one evening last week when suddenly he saw a giant, triangular-shaped object hovering above him.

The piercing white and red lights on the front of the mysterious craft beamed through the dark sky.

Frightened, he ran into his east Flint home and continued to watch the craft from his bathroom window.

“It just hovered there. It was so low, only about a half a mile above the house, then it just zoomed off. But it didn’t sound like a jet,” he said. “It made a humming sound. And it was big, as big as my whole street.” Roberts spotted the UFO about 8:30 p.m. on March 10, two days after people reported seeing a round-shaped aircraft with similar lights hovering above Muskegon.

Resident, police officers, and even Muskegon’s National Weather Service officials, who saw blips on their radar screens, confirmed the object’s location.

“it was the weirdest thing I saw in my life, said Holly Graves of Holland, who ran to the window with her husband, Darrell, after their 14-year old son screamed.

Hovering just above tree level across the road was a huge, rotating globe-shaped object with white and red lights.

“What we saw was not a whole craft, but the bottom of it, turning in a clockwise motion,” Holly Graves said. “People might think we’re nuts, but we’re not.”

The Fraves family called police and a responding officer saw the lights in the distance and contacted the National Weather Service office. It, in turn, notified the Mutual UFO Network after picking up signals on radar.

UFO researchers are descending on southwestern Michigan this week as reports continue to filter in from dozens of people who say they saw something unusual in the night sky March 8 from Grand Rapids to the Lake Michigan shoreline between Muskegon and South Haven.

“It is, right now, the hottest case we have in the country,” said Walter Andrus, director of the Texas-baed international Mutual UFO Network.

Lee Lamberts, sports editor for the Holland Sentinel, saw intense lights flying ina boomerang-shaped formation about the same time as the Graves family.

“The formation (of lights) stayed perfect,” Lamberts said. “It sounded disticntly like one jet, but there were half a dozen lights, up to ten.”

Some reported the object or objects to be slow moving, but radar trackings showed it to move 10 miles in just 10 seconds.

In Flint, Roberts excitedly told his mother, Terrie Todd, about the UFO when returned from the grocery store that evening.

She said she believed he son saw something unusual, but didn’t start wondering seriously about it until she read a news story about the Muskegon sighting the after her son told her about the UFO.

“He’s never been one to make up stories,” she said. “Whatever he saw, I’ve never heard of anything like it. I even called my brother to tell him about it and he said it was probably a Stealth bomber that was being moved.”

Shirley Coyne, the Mutual UFO Network state director, said it was probably no Stealth bomber.

The Flushing Township resident she she received at least six reports in the past nine months about a craft fitting the description the boy gave.

“it is very possible he could have seen this. I don’t think he’s making up stories,” she said. “We’ve had a lot of activity on the east side of the county close to Davison, Lapeer and even in the Thumb area. People have seen a triangular-shaped craft like this.”

Coyne, a UFO investigator and enthusiast, said she is going to Muskegon next week to meet with reported from the the news program, “48 hours”. She believes the craft the boy saw was probably not the same one that passed over Muskegon.

“It was a different craft, the one that has been hanging around here. All we know is that it is a UFO,” she said. “We don’t know who it belongs to or anything about it.”

We know it is silent and does have lights that beam down. It hovers, it maneuvers and it moves in erratic patterns,” she said.

Air traffic controllers at the Bishop Airport tower spotted nothing unusual on their radar the night of March 10, said Ted Wasilewski, Air Traffic Control Supervisor.

“We’ve seen meteors before from just looking out of the towerm but I am not aware of anything unusual that evening,” he said.

Coyne isn’t dissuaded.

“The FAA wouldn’t tell us if they did see anything,” she said.