UFO sightings are on the increase in Michigan's 'thumb-area', seemingly centered around Marlette and Brown City. Last night's odd amber lights (common UFOs to this area) made another appearance and on June 17, high altitude, starlike objects zig-zagged across the sky and local residents heard "high pitched whirring" sounds as neighborhood animals became agitated.

These are just the latest events in rural Sanilac, Tuscola, Lapeer, St. Clair and Huron counties (the 'thumb area'). This latest flap seems to have begun in late November, 1997 when a Genesee County Deputy Sheriff drove under an unmoving and massive lit object on US-23 five miles south of Flint. He reported his sighting to Michigan MUFON. A few days later, December 2, 1997, a Marlette man watches a massive lit object hovering motionless above Peck, Michigan in southern Sanilac County. It vanished into thin air when two airplanes approached it (military?)

On December 13, 1997 a southern Sanilac County Police Officer, along with his partner and an entire family, witnessed a UFO hovering over Brown City for upwards of an hour before it drifted off. Official police documents show this event as actually occurring and further show Selfridge Air National Guard in Mount Clemens, Michigan advising the police dispatcher "that it was probably a helicopter that was sighted and there was nothing much that could be done from that end." I've spoken to one of the two police officers and I can tell you that the sound of his voice alone told me that he was witness to something other than a helicopter.