While UFO debunkers often fall back on expunging the credibility of witnesses to disprove sightings of strange craft in the sky, one thing remains constant. Members of the military or the police are generally considered to be reliable witnesses that are trained to observe and accurately report what they have seen. It does not sit well with skeptics when law enforcement officers are the ones who witness and report such otherworldly events.

In the small hours of the morning of March 14, two Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department officers reported seeing a number of disc-shaped craft. These mysterious craft were witnessed not only by Deputies Bushroe and Foster but other law enforcement officers in neighboring counties. The objects were in sight for over two hours, at some points travelling at excessively high speeds, hovering, turning sharply in different directions and both climbing for altitude and diving rapidly toward the ground.

Within twenty minutes, patrolmen from the Ypsilanti Police Department and the Monroe County Sheriffs Office had also tracked and spotted the craft. Soon more of the craft were spotted. A call was made to Colonel Miller of the Civil Defense. He told them to keep an eye on the objects and to check with the Willow Run Airport. Within an hour of the first sighting, a call to the Selfridge Air Base confirmed they had some objects on radar over Lake Erie but were unable to get an identification on them.

Three days later, on March 17, Sgt. Nuel Schneider and Deputy David Fitzpatrick of the Milan. Michigan Police Department reported seeing two top-shaped objects in their airspace making radical movements and flying off at jet-like speeds. Three more days and the Dexter Police Department had to investigate a possible landing in a wooded area nearby. While two officers searched on the ground with civilian witnesses to see if they could locate the cause of the bright lights going on and off in the woods Officer Robert Hartwell had a glowing object buzz over his patrol car. The Chief of Police, Robert Taylor also spotted a red, pulsating object hovering over a local residence. He end managed to view the object through binoculars and stated it had lights on each end.

Despite the number of qualified and credible witnesses to these events, all within the space of a week, there was never any determination as to what could have been flying in such un-aircraft-like ways over Southeast Michigan. To this day no one knows, but they cannot claim the witnesses were drunken crackpots.