**Location:**
Manistique Michigan, northern tip of Lake Michigan
**Date of sighting:**
5/31/2023
**Time of sighting:**
Estimate anytime after 12:40 am and before 1 am
**Duration of sighting:**
5 seconds or less
**Number of witnesses:**
1 as far as I know (me)
**Descripton of sighting:**
Wish I posted this long ago.. oof. Anyways here we go.
This started when I thought I saw a small meteor streak much less than a degree nearly directly south where my camera was pointing and where it was the darkest over the lake Probably 45-50 degrees up but slightly southeast.
This all happened soo fast but I remember thinking oh that’s a cute little meteor.. then before I knew it. It was now a somewhat small “black shaped pill object” which was obviously elongated , smaller than the disc of the full moon, with steady solid orange perimeter lights nearly flying overhead but a bit more towards the moon side of me. It came from the direction of the small meteor and then it whipped around the bay and went off to the east towards the direction of the lighthouse / moon ish at a slight incline of only a few degrees.
Absolutely no sound not even that of disturbed air, making it impossible to estimate size or distance. But it was zooming having to turn sharp as it didn’t go straight inland behind me, although no insane L or V shaped turns… if it was an average rc plane it was going at least 180+mph at 200-300 feet up in altitude. I remember reaching for my phone but being frozen because of how fast it all happened. If I had more time would have for sure gotten iphone 13 pro quality video. Not sure if my dslr camera was exposing at the time of this actually happening. But i am bummed that i didn’t get anything as I checked every photo for a hint of something even though it was pointed wrong direction.
I may have gotten an orange streak if I had a full frame camera with a 12 or 16mm lens. I was effectively running a 28mm lens with a stock 18-55 on a crop sensor :/ You can kind of also see in the video attached how my camera wasn’t pointed correctly as it was pointed south southwest. Im so stuck on what could have caused the faint meteor to appear right before the UFO, maybe they were connected? It is typical to see small pieces of debris making atmospheric re entry at a dark location after all. I also uploaded a video showing some context, took this maybe 10 minutes prior to the event. https://youtube.com/shorts/lyYGlZ4AEfs
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