Cigar over Apex, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Driving on Williams street heading towards RT1 in Apex, we were observed something about 50 feet long with 4 solid green lights cross over the 4 lane road at about 25-35MPH or less. Object moved slowly across the road and over some trees out of our line of sight. Object was NOT an aircraft fixed wing or rotor. Made no noticeable noise, and all 4 people in the car yelled, “What is that!!??” at the same time. One witness is an aviation enthusiast, and another a med flight nurse with 28 years in rotor and fixed wing aircraft.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #150510). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-11-06 → 2019-11-23
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October 27, 2022 · 7:08 PM · CIRCLE
Apex, NC
On Oct,27 2022 I was driving home from Kohls department store. I was traveling on West William Street towards Apex Peak Way. I got in the left turn lane to make my left turn and as I was waiting, I looked over to my chiropractor’s office ( on the left ), no reason, just kind of daydreaming. As I was looking around I noticed a bright lights hovering in the night sky caught my eye. I would say about 10-12 lights. It was behind the parking lot area ( address provided). It was barely moving and rather low , just above the tree line. At first, I thought it was weird and I couldn’t process what it was, so I kept watching. What I was seeing didn’t fit into the box of what I know to be in the sky. It had too many lights and they were arranged in a circle. The object seemed to tilt/ pivot (this is how I could see the shape as I was looking up at the “ bottom”) and move very little then it started moving slowly. It was a large/ huge object that had blackness between the lights , I tried to make out the shape and it was very hard to be exact on what I was seeing. For a second I thought I saw angular solid between the lights, but I can’t be sure. It seemed to be a hexagon or a circle, I say hexagon because it seemed as if some of the lights were evenly spaced out and on a linear line. The size is hard to describe but I will try. Larger than an airplane but not much bigger. As if you drew a circle ( or hexagon) around an airplane and lined it with lights. However big a commercial airplane is , I’m not sure , but that is close to it. I couldn’t figure it out what I was seeing, and I went through all the possibilities. I was in awe of it and watched it move away quietly. Well, it seemed quiet as I have easily heard plane flying low in my car and I wasn’t hearing anything. At that moment as it drifted away, I came to the conclusion it was either a cluster of drones or an UAP. When I thought that it could be an UAP, I suddenly thought, I must get video so I can figure out this mystery. I raced to fallow it and I saw it again twice more on the left-hand side of the a Apex Peak way. It was still traveling so very low. I shot a video and all I got was a distant light…worthless. I kept driving around for the next ten minutes or so, in hopes of seeing again like the first time. If only I had the presence of mind to capture it on video when I first saw it, however, never in a million years would I think I would see such a thing in the sky that I could not explain. I hope to solve this mystery. I don’t know if just anyone can call the aviation station, it must have been on someone’s radar. Also, I must mention, I recall ever seeing a plane fly that low that is or was that large. Usually planes ascend or descend , not hover around . I am convinced it was not a plane or helicopter. I have no idea what i saw tonight. I hope you can look into this, I hope other people wrote in too.
October 30, 2021 · 7:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Apex, NC
On October 30, 2021, at approximately 7pm, I was driving south on HWY 55 toward Vision Dr. A (seemingly) huge, well lit object flew above me slowly. My first thought, due to the proximity of RDU airport, this was a 747, or some other very large aircraft either landing or crashing. I realized this was not the case, due to the object making no sound. I turned and drove up Vision Dr., while watching the object continue in a south easterly direction, close to downtown Apex. As I watched, the object changed direction, shifting north. The object did not bank, but merely shifted North while remaining horizontal. Very bizarre. When I got home, I called the Apex police department, asking about any known low flying aircraft in the area. Apex was celebrating an Oktoberfest festival that evening, and I thought maybe it could be related, formation night flying or some other “show”. Their answer was no, no scheduled traffic. This week (Thanksgiving) I found a commercial aviation radar app that has flight histories and whatnot (Flightradar24). There were no commercial or civilian flights recorded at that time on October 30, where I was driving. For this reason, I’m making the report. In conclusion, the object was very large, flying low, slow and without sound. I saw no details of the airframe or other structure, due to the brightness of the lights. The lights were arranged in a “4” square pattern (which I reasoned maybe what 4 light aircraft flying in close formation would look like). All I remember is red and white, with 2-4 very bright white strobes. As another report on this same evening stated, this was a very busy highway and time of evening, with lots of traffic. I’m likely not the only witness.
March 28, 2021 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Apex, NC
It went slow, then fast slanting to the right and going forward a little. A green light only, the light was a little fuzzy and after slanting to the right and going forward, it disappeared into thin air. Only one light.
August 8, 2020 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Apex, NC
I had traveled cross country from California to North Carolina, on August 8 between 11:30 and midnight I saw the UFO. We had stopped at Crosswind campgrounds for the night, I had been in the RV for quite some time so I took a walk alone to stretch out. Our campsite was B73 I walked about 3-5 minutes to the lakeside and looked at the water and admired how still it was. From roughly about a mile away from under the bridge I saw a white light with a red center it began coming in my direction extremely fast. It went behind a group of trees and powered down. I own jet skis and no jet ski moves that fast and didn’t disturb the water.
October 25, 2019 · 8:28 AM · CIGAR
Apex, NC
Two white cigar-shaped or cylindrical objects sighted moving at a constant speed, bearing almost due north. One object was further ahead of the second one, in other words it was further north, and the second object was south west of the first object. They both appeared to be moving at the same speed. The size and altitude was not clear, but I would estimate probably 6000 ft or so, because they moved behind or through the low cumulus clouds. They appeared to be the size of a small propeller plane, possibly larger due to perspective. No sound was audible from the objects, and there were no visible contrails or exhaust coming from the objects. The objects appeared to be white, perfect cylinders with a "pinch" in the middle, somewhat similar to the appearance of a single chromatid in a chromosome pair. I did see a glint sunlight reflected so they seem to be reflective. I did not see any lights blinking, flashing or anything other lights on the objects ! or emanating from the objects. Both objects moved north at a constant speed and did not have any erratic movements. The objects were visible for maybe 30-60 seconds as they glided silently before moving out of sight behind the tree line.
October 10, 2019 · 7:40 PM
Apex, NC
We have lived here for several years and never did we see anything like this and also there is no little airport near the area I will email photos and video of what we witnessed