1970-01-01 - Grand Rapids, MI - Disk

Low flying, zig-zagging disc with lights in the 70's

I am telling this story as a second hand experience as told to me by a couple that is extremely good friends with my family- the couple babysat me as a youngster, I grew up with their youngest son, and they still remain very close friends with my parents. The story begins while my family and the couple mentioned, along with their son, were vacationing up north on Portage Lake. In the cabin one evening, we all decided to share strange occurrences we had experienced in the past- paranormal events and stuff like that. I thought this was strange for my friend's parents to bring up because they are such content, sincere folks- the type of people one wouldn't associate with UFO sightings. Anyways, they started off by asking one another if they remembered what they called " the flying saucer" in the field back about thirty years ago. Then they proceeded to tell us the story of the disc they saw during the seventies over the field that is only a block from my current residence. As I describe the story they told, I will refer to the couple as "Dan" and "Ann". Here is what they told myself and my family of their experience:

One day (unsure of exactly what season they said) Dan was riding his bike back from the local grocery store a few blocks away. On his rode home, he noticed a large, blackish-metallic, low flying disc with lights around its perimeter near the water tower down the road from the grocery store. Being only a few blocks from home, he peddaled home, as fast as he could, with the water tower and stationary ufo on his right and the field and his home on the left (Dan and Ann's home at the time was right at the field's edge). Dan immdeiately got Ann to come and see the spectacle outside. When they both got back outside, the disc was over the field, moving slowly in the direction of their home, then it stopped. Dan and Ann watched the disc for several minutes, as it slowly changed direction, heading back toward the direction of the grocery store Dan had just came from. As it! flew, it slowly spun (I am almost positive they said it spun) and was outlined with greenish-yellowish, almost fluorescent lights. During flight, it silently zig-zagged slowly back and forth while still heading in the same direction. Dan and Ann watched the disc until it flew out of sight. They never heard of anyone else seeing it or of any reports in the newspaper or on tv.

~ These people I have known my entire life telling me of this event now, to me, makes the phenomena of UFOs and otherworldly life a reality. Another thing that the couple emphasized in the telling of their story was that the disc moved as if it wasn't effected by the same scientific barriers as we on earth currently are- the way it zig-zagged during flight effortlessly gave them the distinct feeling that this craft was either other-worldly or far, far, far ahead of its time.

(the date, time, and year of the sighting are mere estimates- I am absolutely sure that it was in the 1970's, though).

((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD))