Circle over Maiden, NC
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The report, as filed
Strange Object/Light over Maiden, NC Area
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2008-01-22 → 2008-02-08
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March 2, 2020 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Maiden, NC
For the past several weeks, beginning in mid February, almost every night around sunset until approximately 22:00 hours there is a spherical light that rises and moves erratically until it reaches a certain point/altitude and stops. It then moves occasionally, sometimes quickly but with a jerky or erratic movement. It remains in the sky for approximately 2-3 hours and then moves or descends. At first I thought it was a drone and then possibly a weather balloon. It appears in the North West sky almost nightly. We have also seen an identical craft in the North sky that appears around a half hour after the first, but then disappears from our view. I have looked for reasonable explanations, but can’t find any. We can’t be the only people seeing this because it’s been happening for several weeks. It’s in the direct path of aircraft coming to the Charlotte Douglas Airport, but appears to be either much higher or much lower altitude. It appears to be much lower. I attempted filming it, but don’t have the right equipment. I’m going to attempt again as it is still appearing.
February 4, 2020 · 6:00 PM · CHANGING
Maiden, NC
At approximately 6pm, I saw three lights In a line (white/blue) Completely stationary. Another light descended from the center and started moving left. At this point I was stopped in the middle of the road and two cars came behind me so I had to turn left onto the road that I live on. In the time that it took me to turn onto my road I looked backed and it had changed into a “V” formation and there was now 5 lights. Still completely stationary, I watched them until I lost sight. As soon as I got home I tried to get my drone up to get a better look but I couldn’t get it to connect to the camera. Which has NEVER happened before.
September 22, 2019 · 11:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Maiden, NC
Triangular craft cloaked itself making alien head images in clouds!!!
August 5, 2015 · 12:30 AM · DISK
Maiden, NC
My sister continued on home, and to the right of the car, which was north, as I was the passenger, I could see over the tree line a large object that was disc shape and almost look like a Zeppelin or some type of blimp. At first, I thought it was a blimp and just dismissed it, but then as I look closer, I could tell it was spinning at a rapid rate. It wasn't much farther above the treeline and must have been less than a quarter of a mile away from me. The object was approximately the size of what appeared to be a tractor trailer, from end to end, floating in the sky, and it hovered without making any noise. As we had stopped on the side of the highway to look at the object, our car had made no noise there were no other cars on the highway there were no other of street lamps or any other light sources visible to misconstrue what we were seeing as the driver of the vehicle I was in also Witnessed The event The object was amber and orange in color and seem to change color Variations as it hovered it seems when it was spinning that they were multi colored lights and I could make out blue are yellow in a red it was slow and then it started to appear to disintegrate as it's fun quickly and then disappeared in a zigzag motion leaving some type of smoke trail that was also zigzag behind it I tried To capture all of this on film and didn't think I was able to catch anything because it was so dark and I was using the camera on my phone. As I was witnessing this object hover in the sky then disappear I was completely surprised yet arrested by what I was seeing because I was not sure what exactly it was I have heard reports of people seeing things in the sky and I've never really believed in any of it until ! I saw what I couldn't describe and I was extremely shocked by ! the size of this object and its close proximity to the tree line and the fact that none of the trees were moving as if being blown by wind and then it was completely inaudible. Just shocking. Also, to mention I'm a guest to this area just visiting Maiden, N.C. from New Jersey!!!!
February 2, 2004 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Maiden, NC
Unknown Lights ((NUFORC Note: Possibly the star, "Sirius." PD))