Fireball over Surf City, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Reddish orange orbs appearing several miles off coast and at least 2 thousand feet above sea and higher. Sometimes one light would appear then a pair side by side similar to the December 2018 sighting in outer banks. Lights appeared intermittently for about an hour.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #147808). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-07-22 → 2019-08-08
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April 13, 2023 · 9:46 PM · TRIANGLE
Surf City, NC
When the lights turned into just one light it flew away from the beach at high speed. I know it’s not military craft because I see them fly by all the time. Also they would never fly that close
January 2, 2022 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Surf City, NC
Last month I stayed on the same stretch of beach at an ocean front beach house. I was sitting on the deck and saw this weird ‘star?’ but I noticed it moving closer to me and then back toward the pier. It would hover in certain places. I could not tell how big it was but all of a sudden the yellow star took off super fast toward the south and disappeared in seconds. So now, one month later I am on the deck at a different oceanfront beach house on the same stretch of beach at about 8:30pm and I see the light coming up the beach toward me, heading North. I recognized it immediately. It stopped about half way between me and the pier, hovering. Then all of a sudden it like heated up and cast a dimmed light onto the ocean near the shore and then took off super fast heading upwards. I followed the red dot as far as the eye could see and it took a right turn and disappeared. The light cast on the ocean told me that it was pretty big. Anyway, I am freaking out and am like damn, I did not have my camera. So I hung out again hoping it would come back so I could get video. It did not, but I was freaking out that if it did it might see me trying to capture it from the light the camera emits. I can’t believe I missed that opportunity. I have seen ufo's before in NM and a triad in St. Louis, Mo many years ago but this might be the closest I have come to an alien abduction (nervous laugh.)
September 25, 2019 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Surf City, NC
Singular orange/red orb moved across ocean sky. Came to complete stop and then split into two orbs. Stayed suspended without moving for 5 minutes. The orbs then split into two more, total of four. The first two disappeared. Two minutes later another one split out of the second two. Five minutes later they all faded.
August 29, 2016 · 8:26 PM · SPHERE
Surf City, NC
First saw a redish orange pulsating orb flying pretty high above houses on Topsail Island nc. No noise - but figured it may gave been just an aircraft too high to hear. About 10 mins later, the same colored circular object was flying much lower along the beach from North to South... Was flying near the altitude many if the Camp Lejune military aircraft fly at. No sound. Pulating just like the first one. I took about 8 seconds of video. Flew higher as it passed us - then after a few more seconds seemed to just disappear.
August 27, 2016 · 11:00 PM · EGG
Surf City, NC
My wife and I were out on our deck late that evening when we notices 5 orange orbs or egg-shaped objects floating 10-20 feet over the house across the street. I quickly went inside and grabbed my phone and started recording video. They were moving in the direction of our house slowly and making zero noise. My daughter came outside and also witnessed this. They floated over our house in a single line one behind the other. When they reached our roof, the 5 orbs formed a circle. After forming a circle, they lined up behind one another again and made their way towards the waterway. As I continued to watch them, my wife noticed a sixth orb hovering not 5 feet over our house. It acted like it was curious about us. Our dog was barking at the object. It then hovered there silently about 10-20 seconds and then rejoined the other five orbs. As they all floated away, they ceased to glow and disappeared from view.
October 29, 2015 · 7:15 PM · LIGHT
Surf City, NC
While vacationing in Topsail Island, North Carolina, I stepped out to have a smoke and looked to the south towards the pier and noticed a red light in the sky it was high, but not really high. I went in to grab the binoculars and with a closer look, I realized that the red light was now blinking and in a series of patterns that I have never seen on an aircraft. It would disappear, and then reappear a distance of 30 to 40 ft. I went in to get my wife and I grabbed my phone. I started recording, and she looked at it through the binoculars she is a sceptic and I said, "Well, Hun, what do you think of this one?" She replied, "That is weird, really weird" I then grabbed the binoculars from her and began to watch as the object that was heading south stopped doing the blink thing and turned westbound, inland, but there was another green ball of light probably 300 ft above the red object as the lights disappeared behind a house. I went to wait for it on the other side, and when it reappeared, the green light was now about 300 ft below the red light. I watched as it disappeared out of sight. Note: Just before the sighting a marine helicopter flew out to sea and there was no sounds when I experienced my sighting.