Size of Object(s)

3 to 5 feet across

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

100 feet

Shape of Object(s)

globes or Spheres

Color of Object(s):

pinkish or orange/yellow glow

Full Description & Details

I lived near the dune path entrance to the Lake Michigan beach in 1976-77.Our apartment was at the corner of Georgia Ave. and a dune path, in Michigan City,Indiana. I was 27 at the time. I told my wife I was taking our black Labrador, Kahlua , out for her evening walk to the dune area. It was about 10:00pm -for I usually took her when the local TV news started . I took her downstairs and walked her to the beach path entrance off the street. She suddenly pointed with tail out and left paw up ,out toward the lake. I had never seen her do this in the year we had had this 7 year old ,well trained dog.The hair was bristling up on her back as I gazed out down the sandy dune path. I saw a faint light glow at the very end of the trail and figured she sensed our neighbors partying at a bonfire out on the beach.It was a very nice warm evening with just a slight cool breeze off the lake from the north.( It wasn't out of the ordinary that someone would be having a night time fire and party on such a warm Summer night.) It was moonless but starry in the sky above. I walked quickly to the beach area and was stunned to find no one there and no fire. I looked to my left(West) and couldn't believe my eyes. On this dark night I saw 3 globe shaped (spherical) objects coming our way . They were gliding just above where the water gently waved ashore. As they moved our way...I noticed the colors were of a yellow/orange or pinkish hue light that was weak like a fluorescent glow from inside the spheres. The surface of these globes had thin fingers of "lightning" traveling in fast patterns all around their surfaces. It reminded me of the staticelectricity balls that were used in science classes.I looked quickly down at Kalua at my side and she was frozen in place and had her head turning as she eyed the spheres. She didn't bark and I didn't speak. It was all silent. The spheres crossed directly in front of us at about 100 feet and I got a good look.They seemed to slow down slightly there and I saw they were in an echelon formation with 1 globe out front and the other two behind and left and right of it. The globes seemed about 3 to 5 feet in diameter and were about the same distance from one another. They seemed to move as one object but I didn't see any connecting structure.Their luminous glow ,illuminated the scarce foam of the small waves beneath them.The waves were only inches high but I could make them out. The spheres were only a foot or so above the water. They travelled where the water met the sand.I recall seeing the light brown sand along the wavelets too.I stood transfixed as the globes continued on and seemed to speed up as they continued on the same path above the water all the way up the shore to the East and toward New Buffalo,Michigan .As they moved downshore they became a single light source due to the distance, and were gone. I went in and told my wife in a very excited state what Kahlua and I witnessed. I called the Michigan City police dept. but the desk sargeant laughed and said they were plane landing lights -before I could even explain that they were very close.Then... He hung up! I want you all to know that you won't believe in UFO's until..out of the blue...you'll see one. You will believe then. I do. I am educated, sober minded, a musician, and a photographer and have good vision. My dog did too. ( I have also had 2 other incidents in my life which I will report here in another entry.)

Witness Background

I have 1 year of college, have always been a blue collar worker. My interests also include,playing electric guitars and bass, freelance photographer(landscapes), collecting music albums.

Other Comments

I would like to know if during that Summer (1977) or any Summer night...did anyone else ever report near views of unidentified objects on that beach area of Michigan City ?

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