In the dead of night on a rural Michigan road, a lone driver found himself in a high-speed pursuit of something that defied every known rule of flight, only to watch in stunned terror as the glowing craft dropped directly over his car, bathed it in an eerie green beam, and then vanished skyward in an instant.
The date was October 27, 2013. The location: a remote area near Port Huron. The only known witness, a man who identified himself only as “Bob,” later described the encounter in a YouTube upload that has now exploded back into public view after former Blink-182 frontman and longtime UFO researcher Tom DeLonge publicly endorsed it as authentic.
According to Bob’s account, he first spotted the strange object near his home and jumped in his vehicle to follow it. He tracked it down a public dirt road before it turned onto a private, unmarked farm path. When the road ended, he got out for a clearer look. What happened next, he said, sent him running.
The object moved toward him while emitting a low, swirling noise. Bob retreated, then looked back to see the craft hovering and slowly rotating directly above the roof of his car. At that moment, he reported, it projected a bright green beam onto the vehicle. The air around him felt charged, like dense static electricity, and the hair on his body stood on end. Then, without warning, the object shot straight up into the sky. The swirling sound cut off at the exact instant it disappeared.
“This was a very eerie experience,” Bob wrote in the description accompanying the original video, which was posted to the short-lived ResearchForTruth12 YouTube channel in the days after the incident. He urged viewers to turn up their volume to catch the unusual audio.
The channel itself posted only two videos before going completely silent. It was never monetized. The uploader vanished from public view.
No official investigation has ever been documented. There is no known FAA report, police statement, or military assessment of the Port Huron event. It remains classified in the public record only as an unresolved civilian recording.
That silence has only fueled interest in recent years. In early 2023, Tom DeLonge shared the footage with his large Instagram following, calling it genuine and specifically directing attention to the sound—the same low swirling noise Bob described. DeLonge, whose To The Stars Academy played a role in bringing military UAP videos to public attention, has continued to reference the clip among his network.
Unofficial analyses within UFO research circles have highlighted the footage’s pre-AI origin, the apparent interaction between the object and the vehicle, and the synchronized cutoff of the sound with the object’s sudden departure. Skeptics, meanwhile, have noted the typical low resolution of such amateur recordings and the absence of corroborating witnesses or radar data.
More than a decade later, the video continues to circulate on platforms like X, where users have described the green beam scanning the car and the object’s controlled hover as particularly striking. Questions remain about what Bob filmed that night, why the original channel went dark, and why no government agency has ever publicly addressed the incident.
For now, the 2013 Port Huron encounter stands as one of the more detailed civilian close-encounter claims on record, backed by video, a consistent witness narrative, and the endorsement of a high-profile advocate, yet still unexplained by any official source.
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