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30 years ago

MICHIGAN — UFO researchers are descending on southwestern Michigan this week as reports continue to filter in from dozens of people who say they saw something unusual in the night sky March 8 from Grand Rapids to the Lake Michigan shoreline. What makes the case so unusual, says Walter Andrus, director of the international Mutual UFO Network, is that the sightings seem to coincide with unexplained radar trackings from the National Weather Service office in Muskegon. Some reported the object or objects to be slow moving, but radar showed it to move 10 miles in just 10 seconds..

90 years ago

ESCANABA — The third annual music festival of Upper Peninsula high schools will be held in Escanaba on April 28. It is expected more than 500 music students will participate in the event. The program will include a massed girl’s chorus, boy s chorus, mixed chorus