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The Michigan UFO craze of 1966
‘They did see something. I’ll believe this to the day I die.’
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Ann Arbor News, courtesy of the Ann Arbor District Library archive
In 1966, a string of seemingly odd occurrences in Washtenaw County drew the attention of the entire country.
The events centered on a sudden wave of UFO sightings, with reports by police and citizens in March 1966.
It began on March 14, 1966, when Washtenaw County officers spotted lights in the sky, moving at high speeds over Lima Township.
The same lights were spotted by officers in Ohio, just across the Michigan border, and by observers at Selfridge Air Force Base.
Weston Vivian, former Ann Arbor congressman and civil rights advocate, dies at 96
Updated Dec 18, 2020;
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He was 96.
A devoted family man and accomplished educator and scientist, he passed away in Ann Arbor with family by his side Dec. 4, according to his obituary.
Vivian was elected to represent Michigan’s 2nd District in a Democratic landslide in 1964, unseating Republican George Meader in a district considered a GOP stronghold at the time.
He and several other one-term Democrats were defeated two years later amid a Republican resurgence, but they accomplished a lot in their short time in office.
“Even in just a single term in Congress, Weston Vivian left his mark on our nation by working with my husband, John, to enact the Voting Rights Act and create Medicare and Medicaid,” U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn, said in a statement.