Investigation Team: Dave Miller
Date: July 1962
An 18-year-old female who we will call Martha, was vacationing at Riggs Lake, Michigan with her aunt, uncle, grandfather, grandmother, and two cousins in July 1962. Riggs Lake was a small private lake in a wooded, rural area. It was early afternoon on a sunny, clear day with only a few high cirrus clouds in the sky. Martha was fishing on the shoreline and the uncle was fishing from a small fishing boat.
“I saw the object first and then my uncle saw it from the boat,” stated Martha. “He yelled for everyone to come out of the cabin and look at it.”
The object was huge, cigar shaped, silver, shiny, mirror-like and made no sound or noise as it slowly moved across the sky. Martha estimates that the solid object was about ½ mile to one mile away and about 150 feet off the ground. “There were tall trees. I watched it about fifteen minutes as it went a slow, constant speed.” The uncle worked at DESI (Defense Electronics Supply Center) in Dayton, Ohio and tried to say it was a weather balloon or airplane, but the grandfather disagreed.
Martha eventually lost track of the object because of the distance and the tree line. “It moved across the sky just above the treetops,” Martha remembers.
