Sphere over Greensboro, NC
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The report, as filed
Multiple lights seen in diamond-shaped formation.
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 2013-12-21 → 2014-01-07
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December 13, 2023 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Greensboro, NC
Around 7AM on Dec 13th, I was on the front porch of my home and saw an extremely intense light above the tree line on the hole of the golf course that my house is situated on. The trees are roughly 500-750 ft from my front porch viewpoint. It was hovering left and right with periods of standstill. It was difficult for me to gauge the elevation of the object but it appeared lower than a plane in the sky at the time. Also of note is that there were no visible stars in that field of view, or in my periphery. The only stars faintly visible were directly above my head. With regard to directional positioning, it was just a tad west of the rising sun, but not by much, and was lower than the sun in my field of vision. It caught my eye as it was so intensely bright. It was very mesmerizing. And as it got my attention, I noticed it was periodically emitting a blue light, almost like a beam but more of a tentacle appearance than a typical “linear” laser we think of. The object was relatively stable and hard to get an idea of the exact shape because the light was so bright. However, it looked almost like a pyramid in nature. But would hover around in a small vicinity without much perceived pattern, at least to my eye. I wanted to get a picture but my phone was dead. As I was in awe, a member of the household was leaving for work and saw the same thing. She agreed it was strange but had to leave for work. The object was gone when I came back outside with a family member’s charged phone, within 2 mins of me going inside to retrieve the phone. I probably would have dismissed this or even forgotten about the morning event but late that evening around midnight, I was called outside by a family member who claimed they saw an “orb.” Remembering the event from 18 hrs ago, I came outside and saw the same thing I did in the morning along with lots of animal sounds, like they were disturbed. This time, it was much closer to my house - it was basically above my yard and hovering around the ¾ acre that we live on from above. This time, the pyramid structure was a bit more defined and the light was more of a gold color than the intense bright light I saw in the same morning. It would stay in one place for a few minutes and then hover around aimlessly. In addition to blue lights, this one also emitted red and green lights, both in a tentacle fashion. The majority of the mass of the object would appear in a more rounded muted orange color when the projections were not coming from it. There were moments when it appeared to be transitioning between the two states (pyramid/tentacle structure and orb structure). It also seemed to have a noticeable blackness around it, almost like a cloud when I the pyramid form. About 30 minutes later, 2 family members are watching this with me and another identical object appears on the other side of the house. It seemed to be the same type of object. These things hovered around for about 3 hrs and slowly moved from above our yard to the west. I still had a visual on one from my window when I came to bed and got a video of it jetting away. After many many tries of trying to focus I finally did, right in time for it to be caught ZOOMING away!!! I was in total disbelief but this is the best evidence I have. From what I can see in the video, it moved away so fast that it left a blur with the video recording at 60fps. It went from basically standstill to these speeds. Of note, a family member has claimed he has seen similar things and many orbs on this property but I gave it no attention due to “stigma.” I now believe every word he has said. Now this is speculation but it felt like these things knew they were being watched, there was even a moment when it was behind trees when I was trying to record it and it seemed to move to areas that had optimal tree cover. Since I couldn't get a good in-focus picture, I sketched what I saw to the best of my ability. (the pyramid form) and the video shows the orb form zooming away. The 2 most anomalous things I recall - 1) the speed of which this thing took off from a complete standstill 2) I lost sight one of the objects when viewing it from my room window only to find it, and when I did, this time it appeared to be casting a straight blue beam down to the ground. I did not have view of the ground beneath however the beam was linear this time, casting much further from the object than the wavy lights in the picture. It also appeared to be in orb form during this behavior. The "tentacle" lights only appeared when it was in pyramid form.
November 6, 2023 · 11:19 PM · SPHERE
Greensboro, NC
On Thursday, November 6th, 2023, I was asleep around 11:00 pm when I was awakened, unknown if this event is what woke me up. Because I was awakened, I went to the restroom, which is connected to my bedroom. The toilet in the bathroom has a window that is able to see an open field, my driveway, the main road, the house next door, and the construction site that is in front of my house. While using the restroom, I noticed what I thought to be movement at the construction site, which is lit up by a pole light. Because my phone camera is better than my eyes, I went to go get my phone that was sitting beside my bed. I came back into the toilet area and started recording the construction area in case there was actually something there that I couldn’t see or in case there was some vandalism going on, which I would check with the site manager in the morning. (Video #1 - 6:21 minutes). Meanwhile, on the northern, left side of my bathroom window these purple orb lights started going off and rotating in a circular motion. There were 3-4 in a cluster, plus 1 in the sky. These purple lights would actually black out and disappear, but then when they would reappear, there would be a fewer number of them, and they would be split apart and closer to my camera. By the time the video is over, you can see these purple, orb-like lights actually shooting electricity between them, almost like sharing energy in order to maintain its presence. Once the lights have narrowed down to only two existing lights, you can see that the purple lights turn to white and then there is a single red light. Eventually, you can see that these lights disappear altogether into the pitch blackness of the night into the same direction that they came from. (Video #2 - 10:19). I have contacted the local police department and the local FAA office, which tell me that these two videos should be reported to you in particular because they are unaware of any device that matches this criteria. They have these videos sent to them through email.
October 3, 2023 · 3:15 PM · CIGAR
Greensboro, NC
I was in an American Airlines Boeing 737 - just left Charlotte NC and weren't quite at cruising altitude (maybe 10 minutes into the flight) and saw a cigar shaped craft going SUPER fast below us. Maybe 10-20 seconds of flight. It did NOT look like a plane and it was going so fast I can't imagine it was another plane.
August 5, 2023 · 4:43 PM · CIRCLE
Greensboro, NC
It was just sitting there. I was coming off of 840 on 240 taking the wendover west exit [NUFORC annotation: Blimp - Probable]
December 3, 2021 · 10:00 PM · CIGAR
Greensboro, NC
When exiting Keeley Road facing Rankin Mill Road (facing the grave yard which is in front of the landfill dirt mound area). I saw a long object hovering low in the sky over the landfill area. At first I wondered if maybe it was a very high crane, with maybe a long piece of steel attached. But, then I noticed that it was slowly moving. The closer it got to my view, I noticed that it was cigar-shaped. It was not inflated in appearance like a blimp. It was narrow. It had numerous lights on the side of it. It was extremely long and difficult for me to estimate the length. There were no other visible aircrafts in the sky. I did not have on the radio or CD player. It was quiet and I did not hear a sound from the object. I turned my lights off and on again multiple times as I tried to get a clear view of it. I did not want my lights to interfere with my view of the object. As it got closer to my car, I continued to watch it. All of a sudden, It began to fade, as to vanish. As the object was approaching overhead right in front of my car, I sensed that the object was all of a sudden no longer bright and clear like it was just moments (seconds) ago before, which was very weird and strange. As a natural instinct, I began to rub my eyes in an attempt to focus, as I am a contact lenses wearer. Suddenly, the object that was slowly fading, vanished. I looked through my front windshield and my sunroof and it was gone. I am estimating that I watched the object for 10 to 15 minutes before it vanished. I then began to drive. I turned right on Rankin Mill Road. I turned right on Camp Burton Road. I made a 3 point turn in order to look back towards the Keeley Road area in an attempt to see the object. The night sky was clear and there was no visible object in the sky. I then, positioned my car to drive back towards Rankin Mill Road. I turned left on to Rankin Mill Road and drove back towards Keeley Road, while looking up into the night sky in an attempt to see the object. There was no visible object in the sky. The object had completely vanished. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
August 22, 2021 · 3:45 PM · CIRCLE
Greensboro, NC
In the middle of the day (sparse cloud coverage but otherwise bright, blue sky) my friend and I were down at the park near my house and we were just looking at the clouds and we see this collection of about 8/9 tiny dots in the sky. They were too small to capture on camera and we didn’t have a telescope or binoculars. They were above cloud level and sort of bright/reflective and a couple seemed to have red lights on the bottom. There were two more close by but not part of the cluster. As we watched them the would move closer together and then spread out again and at one point formed a triangle formation (like birds or airplanes might). They eventually moved out of sight behind the clouds and we didn’t see them any more. The whole event lasted about 30 minutes. Afterwards we saw a couple planes fly past that were much, much closer to earth.