What happened that fateful night, exactly? The Free Press, on the 25th anniversary of the supposed UFO sighting, recounted the testimony of several witnesses, all residents of Michigan's western coastline. The Graves family — Daryl, Holly, and their son Joey — saw six unexplainable lights in the sky that night around 9:30 — note that Pravda only saw four. Joey said they were "red and white and moving."

A police officer named Jeff Velthouse saw something similar that night, although his testimony is somewhat different from Pravda's or the Graves'. Velthouse claimed to see five or six shapes in the sky, "some cylindrical with blue, red, white and green lights." Skeptics will inevitably point out that none of these stories is quite the same as the others; that effectively no one saw the same thing; that perhaps this was some kind of mass psychotic episode. 

But the stories don't differ that wildly from each other. After all, it's possible that Pravda only saw four of the lights, and other people with a better view saw others; or that the shapes changed color. The mass delusion hypothesis also doesn't explain the meteorologists' report of the incident. The Free Press quotes a radar operator with the weather service, who claims to have picked up three blips that were clearly not airplanes, slowly moving along the Lake Michigan coast toward Chicago, rising and falling in elevation as they went.

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