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MULTIPLE sources have claimed they witnessed fighter jets engaging in a dogfight with a UFO over Michigan last week.
The sightings have been reported to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
It’s not unusual for the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) to receive a report of a UFO sighting.
The organization typically receives 10 to 20 sighting reports each day. They've received more than 170,000 in the last 49 years.
They typically publish the reports they receive in large batches, however, every once in a while, one comes in that is so interesting or unique, that they release it in an individual report.
That’s just the case in a June 3 UFO – or what officials call an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sighting – that occurred about 2 hours and 15 minutes north of Detroit in Bad Axe, Michigan.
Public Affairs Officers from the Ohio 180th and Minnesota 148th Fighter Wings, who patrol and train in that area, report that there were no aircraft in the area that day, per the Huron Daily Tribune.
But multiple witnesses reported seeing two fighter jets engaged in a “dogfight” in the sky with a UAP, according to NUFORC.
One witness said: “Quiet afternoon no signs of planes it’s, 10 am, in the parking lot of the storage unit across from Miejers. Myself, my wife and 2 Co workers were helping move my camper!
“Suddenly ear shattering afterburner on 2 what I think were F-16 or F-22 were flying together whilst dogfighting something I couldn’t see at first. They would circle fast as they could looking intently for something,” they said.
They continued: “Circling the sun around about 2 or 3 times and suddenly there was this white/metallic disc hard to see because it was shining with the sun, it seemed to hide in the sun from the fighters, whom obviously couldn’t see it.”
In the report, the witness claims the UAP was extremely fast and appeared fully capable of overtaking and out outmaneuvering the fighter jets.
“It would overtake a jet, stop suddenly and seemed to turn toward the incoming jet like spin in there direction without moving. The jet would shoot out anti missile flares like it was under direct attack,” the person continued.
“The UAP was also comfortable to just spin again and make the next jet flanking shoot its anti missile flares! There was clear distress.”
The witness said they watched the fighters take off together and repeat the attack approximately three times before they retreated.
“The UAP sat in the sun a moment longer and seemed to circle the area almost as in a victory lap, it then departed with absolutely no sound in the complete opposite direction as the fighter jets had flown,” the witness continued in the report.
They added: “To be clear when the UAP was stationary and the jets had flown away every time the 3 attempts and the retreat the only clear sound of a airplane was the fighters who seemed to be intercepting this sudden threat.”
“I did not see if the UAP had shot anything I could define as a weapon.
“And the fact that the dogfight happened almost entirely in the rays of the sun my galaxy s22 ultra was not able to get anything other than a blinding glare and noise.”
At the bottom of the report, NUFORC asked anyone who witnessed the incident to file their own report.
On June 14, NUFORC posted an update about the sighting after talking to the witness again, as well as his wife – who also claimed to witness it.
NUFORC said: “After reviewing photos of types of military aircraft he (the witness) able to narrow down the identification of the jets to F-16’s, not F-22’s.
“When the F-16s departed, they flew to the south, while the UAP disappeared over the lake.”
He also added that for 4 days after the sighting the jets returned to the same spot at 10AM, firing flare again on the 4th day.
The organization said the witness is familiar with aircraft from his military time stationed at the 304th Expeditionary Signal Battalion in Korea, where he was trained.
They've asked the man to submit a drawing of the UAP and to encourage his friends to submit corroborating reports of what they witnessed.
Several witnesses said they also witnessed the strange occurrence in the sky that morning.
“I live in Bad Axe over by Franklin Inn and was sitting outside looking north when the jets were, I thought, playing around and making noise,” Ladonna Hunt wrote on the Tribune Facebook page, as reported by the Huron Daily Tribune.
“I did watch the jets about 10 a.m. June 3. The jets were so loud it was hard not to see where (they) were and what they were doing. I saw the jets and a shiny spot for quite a while going round in circles.”