Fireball over Oak Island, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Bright light, sparkler-like comet tail. Seemed to burn out then burned bright again before burning out completely.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #139306). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-03-25 → 2018-04-11
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May 27, 2021 · 9:00 PM
Oak Island, NC
At approximately 9:30pm we were sitting, as a family, on the porch overlooking the ocean. I looked up to see in the clear night sky, just overtop of the adjacent ocean front home, a single triangle shaped, light orange object a few hundred yards away. It was alone briefly before being joined by another, then another and so on until there were 4. My wife and 2 adult sons then saw the objects. Then they “disappeared” without any discernible sound (although the waves were fairly loud). While we were debating what we saw my son noticed that just off shore there was an amazing spectacle taking place with what appeared to be many separate white lights twinkling off and on- back and forth with other groups. Above them appeared to be either a solid, very large triangular object or perhaps some that were in a triangle formation. This continued for some time in the southern sky while a cargo ship was not too far away ( for perspective on the distance from shore- the objects were about as far out as the ship which was just to the east) and what appears to be commercial airline flights which allowed us to estimate the objects were now at around 3-4K ft. As the display continued we could hear what we knew was a military jet coming from the east up the beach towards us. The jet came by just overhead and slightly off shore at a little higher altitude than the objects which were flashing white rapidly among each other and underneath the triangle object. The jet stayed ! straight following the beach and did not attempt to fly towards or engage - or not that we could tell. Then abruptly- it ended and they were gone.My oldest son and I walked onto the beach in hopes of seeing more and at around 10pm the 4 orange colored craft reappeared several hundred yards off shore at what appeared to be 1,000 feet or so above the surface. They “glowed” in unison for a brief moment and then they were gone. We are all professional people. Don’t subscribe to belief in space aliens etc. We took video and when we zoom in it appears at least one craft resembles the “tic tac” shaped object we have seen on the news. We heard no sound aside from the jet. The objects movement in the sky was erratic at times and at other times it moved precisely and smoothly and slowly. This is the truth as we experienced it. We are considering video and drawing images of what was seen. The incident took place at West Beach Dr and 23rd St Oak Island NC. The craft were in the southern sky at approximately 227 degrees SW.
June 29, 2020 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Oak Island, NC
We were driving down Beach Dr near 46th St SE when a set of white-red lights appeared off the coast, roughly 10,000 ft and several miles from the shoreline. Initially there were three lights, but as two of the lights got closer together they became 4. One light stayed alone to the East. Then the five lights came together and disappeared. Roughly 3 seconds later, a larger light appeared and then disappeared as quickly as it came. They never reappeared.
June 30, 2019 · 8:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Oak Island, NC
We see nothing in the video that we believe is suggestive of the presence of a UFO. PD
May 16, 2019 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Oak Island, NC
I was staying with family this week at the beach on oak island. I was out in front of thte beach house around 9:15 and saw three flare like lights to the Southwest (myrtle beach direction) but probably 10,000+ feet high. #1, then #2, then #3 appeared within a few seconds in a triangle formation then they disappeared very fast. I’d say they could be flares but does the military typically drop flares off the coast this far from a base? They didn’t last long like flares either. It was very quick. Literally right when I saw them they disappeared after 3 seconds. Also heard no aircraft of any kind at all.
December 18, 2018 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Oak Island, NC
I knocked on the window and my husband came outside and watched with me. We saw as many as ten of these lights at any given time and they would sometimes blink, sometimes the light would be steady and then they would just disappear. The ocean was very calm and we would have been able to hear jet sounds, but there were none. After a few minutes of this, we saw a very bright orange light appear, which hovered for several seconds before disappearing. This happened about 3 more times, all the while the white lights were continuing to blink and jump around. We then heard a loud rumble like a fighter jet and after that that it was quiet again and all the lights seemed to cease. This event lasted about 15 minutes. We went back inside, but after about 10 minutes I went back out to look again. I began seeing the blinking white lights again, and occasionally heard the jet sounds. My husband came back out and again we saw the orange lights only this time multiple appeared at one time and one of them split into about six lights in a straight line at an angle. This happened two more times, after which the white lights had moved further away and to the west before disappearing altogether. This second event lasted about 10 minutes. I would like to note that we have seen this same phenomenon, or parts of it, on several occasions from this same location. I would really like to know what it is we’re seeing.
April 28, 2016 · 8:34 PM · CIRCLE
Oak Island, NC
Seven red-orange circles appeared in the sky about 15-20 degrees above the horizon in southern direction over the ocean off of Oak Island, NC. These objects appeared first as 4 circles at 8:34 PM then others (or some of the same) again at 8:47 PM. The objects appeared rapidly out of nowhere and then disappeared within 5 seconds. The circles all appeared each as a large filled in circle of red-orange color. They all seemed to appear and disappear in the same general area (but not exactly the same)of the sky. At one point two were side by side before disappearing. They all seemed to disappear by collapsing into themselves. The two that were side-by-side appeared to have a halo around them. All circles were filled in with the same color and appeared to be large.