Light over North Wilkesboro, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Huge glowing yellow light appeared and zoomed to the ground very, very fast east of North Wilkesboro
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 2011-09-05 → 2011-09-22
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I always look at the sky at night or early morning because I've seen strange lights or objects dozens of times over the past year and a half. I've taken hundreds of videos and photographs, I am including as many of the videos as possible taken today 10-13-23. I witnessed multiple objects at the same time, the the longest video with a duration of 2 mins 9 seconds you will see one star like object passing by Jupiter and then meeting up with a 2nd Star like object next to the little dipper before flying in Separate directions. My hair was standing on end like I was about to discharge static electricity, ive only experienced this phenomenon 3 or 3 times when witnessing a ufo/uap. I TRIED TO ATTACH VIDEOS BUT THEY WERE ALL TOO BIG TO ATTACH. I don't want to downgrade the quality, they were taken in 2160×3840 on my Samsung Galaxy s23 Ultra. If the investigator wants to see the videos I can attach to Email.
April 21, 2019 · 10:35 PM · LIGHT
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July 7, 2015 · 9:48 PM · LIGHT
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I spotted what looked to be a satellite approximately 45 degrees above the southern horizon heading north. It had at least a magnitude 1 brightness. It moved so fast I thought it might have been an airplane, but never saw any blinking lights, or change in brightness until it faded away to the north in the hazy sky. I have seen thousands of satellites and all kinds of aircraft in my 40 years of amateur astronomy, but I have never seen a light, satellite, or aircraft move as fast as this light did. It moved too slowly for a meteor, did not leave a trail, and it crossed the entire sky, from south to north, going directly overhead in less than 15 seconds. The speed of the object is what astounds me and boggles my mind.
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I was watching air traffic in the northern night sky. I was thinking it would be wonderful to see a ufo, and suddenly straight up in the sky I noticed a star-like light moving in a northern direction that i recognized could be a ufo or a satellite. At that moment I noticed lower on the northern horizon 3 red lights flying east to west. I could see the red lights clearly and nothing else. It was totally odd to see 3 red objects flying one right after the other anywhere in the night sky. The lights did not conform to aviation lights that I know of. They disappeared behind a tree line and were gone.
October 24, 2014 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
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I was on the front porch looking north at the stars in the night sky. There were planes flying north to south in their usual flight pattern for this area. Suddenly I noticed an odd light approximately 1,000 feet up flying west to east that resembled a very bright light bulb. It was rounded and extremely bright. I called my mother to come and see it, and we watched it fly along in a westerly direction towards downtown North Wilkesboro. It floated to a certain point and then appeared to turn right and head north, and upon turning, the light faded quickly and was gone. It was not a plane or a helicopter, had no navigational lights, and it made no noise.
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