Fireball over Avon, NC
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The report, as filed
31 orange balls of light coming out of ocean,silent
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 2011-10-10 → 2011-10-27
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June 19, 2016 · 9:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Avon, NC
Traveling south with the wind, and were out of sight in about 2 minutes.
June 2, 2015 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Avon, NC
At approximately 9:30pm on 6/2/15 I was with a group of people fishing and having a small fire on the beach in Avon. The night was warm, the weather clear except for some small patches of clouds and a little haze but the moon was out and visibility was good. I was looking over the water when I noticed a bright orange object had just appeared a good distance down the coast and over the water. At first I thought it was a low flying plane that had broken out of the hazy clouds, but then the object did a short, quick dip down and suddenly one object “blinked” or “split” into six to eight other similar orange objects and into a V-formation. This formation moved across the sky for a few moments and then almost in perfect unison “blinked out” and disappeared. Of the 12 or so people on the beach, only myself and one other witness witnessed this particular part of the event. Five minutes later, at about 9:35pm, two orange fireballs appeared in the sky closer down the beach to my location. These two craft came out of the clouds flying nearly parallel and almost mimicking each other’s movements. They looked very much like planes at first, but then they would pulse bright fireball orange on and off. They sped across the sky inland, at one point coming to a complete stop and hovering for about a 20 second time period. The two craft then reversed and started heading back over the sea where they shone bright orange and then blinked out and disappeared. The odd thing about this second part of the sighting, which all members of my party now witnessed, was there was an actual sound for a brief time. Whether or not the sound came from the craft or not, I cannot say, but it was deep and sounded like a jet engine at first, but then it kind of mimicked the sound of the surf and waves of the beach, but noticeably louder. It was at the time of this sound that the craft disappeared. One more of these orange balls were spotted well inland at approximately 10:15pm moving over Avon and its beach houses. It too moved well across the sky only at one point coming to a near complete stop and hovering. It stayed like that for a few seconds before moving on then blinking out and disappearing. Three people witnessed this. Fireworks, military flares, light effects off the clouds—this was none of that. These things seemingly moved with purpose and intelligence. I have never seen anything like it. Oddly enough, it was noticed that hardly any commercial aircraft or aircraft of any kind were in the skies on this night. After some quick research and checking online to see if anyone else saw what I did, I found on Youtube some footage taken in 2012 at Myrtle Beach which shows exactly what I saw, but I saw a more intricate V-formation of sorts. If interested and if it can be included in this report, the video can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD2cHAOsbTM&spfreload=1
June 1, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Avon, NC
Sighting was around 10 pm 6-1-15. Saw first fireball appear 2 witnessed this. The fireball was bright yellow orange and lasted 15 seconds. It just appeared burning bright and the gone. As we where wondering what we just saw 2 more people came out to join us. Then we all 4 saw this fireball several more times. It looked the same every time and in the same location. After looking in the same spot we noticed 2 red lights that move around in the sky. These lights didn't make a sound. The stayed in the same area of the sky appearing not to move for a time. then started moving came across island turned south. Witness provides no contact information. PD
June 25, 2014 · 8:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Avon, NC
Family vacation all looking off top deck of house into ocean towards avon fishing pier. 3 bright lights formed horizontally and the into triangle and then disapeared and reappeared in seperate location and then dissapeared. Moments later air force jets showed up super high did some loops and were gone. Time went by and lights reappeared, 2 this time, for seconds and vanished, 10 minutes later jets came back to snoop around. These lights were large had no sound or object behind them as the sky was not yet dark on their first time around. Totally strange. Obviously the air force were looking for something??? Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 7, 2012 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Avon, NC
Huge orange fireball over ocean in Avon, NC.
September 25, 2012 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Avon, NC
Two hovering crafts appeared in Avon, NC, and emitted a distinct pattern of 4 circular orangish lights each.