I was 7 years old. It was March of 1994, around 6 or 7 in the evening. My mom, my brother, and I were coming home from church, heading up the hill near our house, when we all looked up at the same time.
There was an enormous object in the sky. It was flying so low it looked like it was almost touching the tops of the trees. Dark colored, round in shape, with lights rotating around the outside of it. It moved impossibly slow and made absolutely no noise. No engine hum, no wind... nothing. Just silence. It was drifting toward the southwest.
I was terrified. The moment we got home I ran inside and pulled a blanket over myself and stayed there until I was sure it was gone. I was only 7 and I didn't have words for what I'd seen, I just knew it wasn't right. That image stayed with me for years.
About three years ago I was watching Unsolved Mysteries and stumbled onto an episode about a mass UFO sighting in Michigan, 1994. Multiple witnesses across the state describing the exact same thing. Same shape, same silence, same slow movement toward the southwest. I sat there with my jaw on the floor.
That was it. That was exactly what we saw. I am 100% certain.
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