Cone over High Point, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Whilst outside painting the house with my granddaughter, my granddaughter alerted me to some strange objects floating in the sky. I proceeded to look in the direction she was pointing and noticed 3 shuttlecock-shaped objects floating slowly through the air above tall bushes in our yard. They were gold in color with no sound coming from them. We immediately contacted other family members to describe what we saw. Before any other family members were able to come home, the objects disappeared into thin air. We have not seen those particular objects since but, have seen much more mysterious activity in the following days.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #131370). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-10-14 → 2016-10-31
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May 26, 2022 · 9:10 PM · UNKNOWN
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My wife and I were sitting on the bed when we heard what we assumed to be a airplane flying over the house, Although It didn’t exactly sound like a airplane. It was so close I hesitated to get up and see what it was, once the sound was over my room and in my backyard I quickly hopped up to see, I popped my back door open to see a wing shaped object coasting over the trees on my yard. It wasn’t speeding, it was seemingly landing because it was at the top of the trees and moving so calmly. The trees were not moving at all. The wing shaped object looked like a right wing of a airplane but not exactly. It had 4 red lights about a foot apart from each other and one blinking light on the end of it. I couldn’t see the left side of it because My yard is full of trees. Had it been a airplane I would’ve seen the left wing sticking out and I would’ve seen a vessel. It seemed to connect to something at the point but it wasn’t visible because the trees were blocking. It’s very dark in my yard at night as well as my neighbors. I didn’t see a engine on the wing like an airplane. Had it been an airplane i could’ve seen the people on the plane that’s how close it was. I could’ve threw an egg and hit from the balcony had I stepped outside. I didn’t see the rear wing following behind. I ducked when I saw it coasting over. It was moving so gently and smooth. The sound didn’t match the movement and speed of it. My reaction was “what the **** is that?!” Which alarmed my wife to get up and rush to the door by that time it was already behind the trees and still moving, my wife and I saw the red light through the trees. That’s all my wife saw. My brain didn’t recognize what it was that’s why I reacted the way I did. My wife said I had the look of fear on my face. The “wing” shaped object was an estimated 20 feet long and 2-3 feet in width and it was white. I visually saw it for 2-3 seconds. The whole ordeal from the initial sound was about 10 seconds. I laid in bed for about 5 seconds when we first heard it, I jumped up after, it took about a second or two to open my door and I watched it go behind the trees in 3 seconds. Had I jumped up as soon as we heard it I could have possibly gotten footage or a picture. It actually sounds like it I came straight down or from the side and not flying from the front of the house. Once it went into the trees after I saw it the sound was gone, like it never happened. 20 minutes later the military comes flying over the house. It was a reported chinook which carries 55 military troops and/or equipment and 3 black Hawk helicopters. Shaking the entire house windows and all. This was also reported by neighbors via my ring bell. We thought it was an airplane doing an emergency landing initially. I called the local news And gave report they stated they got calls about the military flying in but none of what I saw. 2 days before I saw what I saw, it was reported that an hour away from me people saw a triangle shape flying over the highway. Charlotte NC.
February 17, 2020 · 8:14 PM · FIREBALL
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(Sorry for submitting this twice, I realized I set the date to today, and not Monday, on accident.) I was arriving to my step fathers house at around 9 PM EST, and I looked up to the sky above his house, which overlooks some semi-tall trees and leades into a lake. When I looked above, I saw a flash of light that stayed in the air for a good few seconds. The light descended slowly, much larger than a plane and more slowly than that, until it disappeared behind the house. My mother was with me, but she didn't see it, as she was taking bags out of the car. It was large, about the size of the moon, but much brighter. As it descended behind the trees I tried to run around to the back, but it was already gone. The shape was nearly perfectly circular, but I describe it as a fireball because of the hazy outside of bright blue along with the white center.
January 6, 2020 · 4:48 PM · CIGAR
High Point, NC
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March 3, 2017 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
High Point, NC
Also last year in mid 2017 on the way home from work around 11:15 pm eastern time, I saw a slow moving black triangle where high point and jamestown merge. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 6, 2016 · 8:45 PM · OTHER
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November 17, 2016 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
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