Disk over Winston-Salem, NC
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The report, as filed
2 discs.
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 2012-11-05 → 2012-11-22
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January 12, 2023 · 12:30 AM · CIGAR
Winston-Salem, NC
At around 12:30 at night on Jan 12th 2023, I was awoken by a very loud and very low humming seemingly coming from outside. My sister was asleep in the next room but seemed to have been also woken up by this noise because when I called out to her asking "what that noise was" she responded that she didn't know. My sister then proceeds to walk out into the loft common area and look out of the upstairs window facing southwest. She reports seeing the cigar shaped craft fly from over our house (flying very low) then abruptly stop for a few seconds. Then the craft begins slowly moving again going southwest going over the treeline that surrounds our neighborhood of Bedford Park. When the cigar shaped craft approached the treeline, it turned on some sort of light that my sister describes as being "comically that of a UFO". After a few seconds of the light being on, the craft immediately dissappears from sight along with the low humming it was emmiting. The next morning every member of the house had time unaccounted for at the time of the sighting the previous night. After I mentioned it again after having a dream related to the incident the previous night, only then did my sister remember seeing or hearing the object that startled us in the night.
March 17, 2022 · 6:20 PM · DIAMOND
Winston-Salem, NC
There was a large plane flying over maybe a 747 or similar. Tt wasn't very high maybe taking off from a local airport. The Winston Salem or Greensboro Airport. But too high to be just taking off. There was an object above it maybe a half inch from my perspective that was matching speed and altitude exactly. It was round or diamond in shape and White in color. It was to high above the plane to be attached. I watched it until it went out of sight. It was a clear day with no clouds and it was after 5pm but it wasn't close to dark yet. there were no flashing lights on the object and no trails behind it like a normal aircraft would make. From my perspective the plane was about 2 inches in size and the "object" was about half the size of a drop of water. Like a big dot or white period. Your welcome to contact me by phone or email with any questions you may have. It was an amazing sight!
July 13, 2021 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Winston-Salem, NC
Bright light moving fast across sky, changed direction then burst off into space. all captured on video
February 13, 2020 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Winston-Salem, NC
I saw a very bright orange/red/pinkish sphere to the northeast of my house. At first, I thought it was a planet until I realized it was way outside the ecliptic, and then I thought I needed to check what star could possible be that bright. I looked away for a moment to check on my dog and when I looked back, I thought it was gone until it reappeared and then seemed to flicker/spark and was gone. It was not moving so it was definitely not a meteor; however, the flickering out was very similar to the way a meteor breaks apart, but in this case, in a stationary position. As an object in the atmosphere it would have been low enough that it was some distance away. It never changed position. My wife an I saw three of these several years ago and they had the same color which I can never quite decide if its reddish, orangish or pinkish.
December 19, 2019 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Winston-Salem, NC
Well, here we go again. This is my second sighting this year. My granddaughter and I stopped at Wendy’s on Reynolda Rd. in Winston-Salem, NC. While I was accessing my Wendy’s app for coupons, she said, “Grandma what are those things up there?” I looked out my right passenger window and looked up. Above and around the very tall cell tower behind Wendy’s were what seemed like hundreds of round blobs moving all around but they stayed in the same area. We got out the car for a better look. They seemed clear or silver colored, but shiny. Some turned red and some turned blue. A few even changed shape to have a tail or something pointing behind, or in front. of them. They were not up very high in the sky, at least no further than the cell tower. They were definitely round before shifting shape. We tried to capture videos from my cell phone, but when we looked through the camera you could not see them. (After we got home I checked the videos on my phone and you coul! d make out a few of the objects.) After about 20 minutes, the group of objects moved to the right of the sky but at the same height level. They seemed to just disappear after that. I do not know how huge the objects would be on ground level. But clearly they were large. Some would move towards each other and then pull back. This time my granddaughter saw them first and brought them to my attention. The last time I brought the UFSs we saw to her attention (reported on this site). It was almost like when you blow out a bunch of bubbles at one time (but many more) except bubbles do not stay at one level, they either float up and then burst or fall down and burst or touch each other and burst or cling to each other and then burst. I reviewed this writing with my granddaughter, and she confirms it is an accurate depiction of what we both saw. She said, Grandma we have got to get a real camera if we keep seeing these things.” I agree.
October 3, 2019 · 7:00 PM · CIGAR
Winston-Salem, NC
On October 3, 2019, between 6:55 p.m. and 7:20 p.m., myself and at least 4 other people observed 4 oblong or pod shape or pill shape or cigar shape flying objects. The objects changed from bright red to silver-like color in the clear, almost cloudless sky above the Fulton YWCA soccer field in Winston-Salem, NC, where children were practicing soccer. The objects were definitely not airplanes as they were very close and moving too slow and would have fallen from the sky. There were no wings or smoke trails. They were not drones because the objects would get larger and then small again. The objects seemed to appear out of nowhere. They would randomly disappear in plain sight and reappear from nowhere. One of the objects did take off across the same area of the sky very fast and then slow down again. The objects all moved horizontally and not vertically, not upward nor downward. Two of the objects seemed to fly within the particular area of the sky and stop (or disappear and then reappear) and then fly back facing the other objects in close proximity of each other. I watched three disappear in the sky and not return to view. The fourth one finally moved beyond the tall tree tops where I could no longer observe it. During the approximate 25 minutes, myself and another observer tried to take pictures or videos of the objects with our cell phones to no avail. People other than the 4 of us who observed the flying objects seemed oblivious to the objects being there, as if it was commonplace to see such objects. No one else seemed to care. I showed the 4 objects to my granddaughter, but she was more interested in a grasshopper she had spotted in the grass.