Chevron over Ocean Isle Beach, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
They all of a sudden went out, but then one popped up again for two seconds, then all of a sudden the orange orbs were gone. The whole encounter was 10 seconds. There was no dripping, it did not stutter in its glow.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #157214). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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December 15, 2021 · 8:45 PM · CHANGING
Ocean Isle Beach, NC
At about 8:45 pm, while sitting on an ocean front balcony, I noticed 2 orange glowing orbs in the sky above the water that suddenly "appeared". These faded after about 10 seconds. I thought a boat had sent up fireworks, but there was no sound nor any boats that I could see. After a few seconds, in the spot where the orange glows had been, I saw many tiny white lights flickering in a round pattern. This lasted a few seconds, and then there appeared larger star-like lights pulsating at different intervals in what seemed to be a triangular pattern. The "object" (just lights were all that were visible) began to move back and forth across the sky at a relatively medium pace. At times, the lights would completely disappear, but then return after 5 - 10 seconds. After about 5 minutes of this, 2 of lights seemed to separate quickly and become 2 completely different "objects" with the same intermittent (sometimes rapid) flashing lights, and both began to travel back and forth across the sky. This went on another 15 minutes, when lower on the horizon 3 more orange "glows" appeared and soon faded. When I looked back to where the original objects had been, they had disappeared and did not return. There was no sound. There was no blocking of stars as they moved back and forth, as if the lights themselves were not a part of anything, just on their own. But you could definitely tell that they were a part of something as the intermittent flashing lights stayed within the confines of a pattern. Very strange indeed.
September 7, 2021 · 9:30 PM · FLASH
Ocean Isle Beach, NC
While staying at Ocean Isle Beach during the week of Labor Day, our family was on the crow’s nest of the home at around 9:30PM and we noticed one orange light coming toward us from the direction of North Myrtle Beach. It in few minutes, the one orange light turned into two orange lights. They were there for about 5 minutes and then disappeared. After the orange lights, we noticed flashes of white lights and while looking through the binoculars, we viewed lights sporadically flashing all around. The best way we could describe it is like floating glitter. This occurred for around 1.5 hours total. We have seen other things before in the sky, but this was really intriguing.
July 15, 2020 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Ocean Isle Beach, NC
A light of unusual characteristics was observed at 9:15 (approx). The light had no additional anti-collision lights - no flashing or blinking lights at all, no colored lights - none of the typical aircraft indicator lights typically seen with nighttime flight. The light initially was mistaken as a planet, because of the static lighting and lack of movement. After several minutes (~2min), however, the light began slowly moving/drifting across the sky to th NE. It was positioned almost directly overhead - perhaps 5° from zenith. The movement was too slow to indicate a meteor, and it was almost as bright as Venus in the night sky, although the wrong location. It was also far too bright to be a satellite, generally speaking; and because it also had a significant period of no movement, it appears that it would not be a satellite. There was absolutely no noise. I have had one or two "sightings" before, typically of "metallic" craft or fast-moving lights, but this one was different. It gave a distinct impression of something in observation mode (although I realize this is injecting too much opinion). Overall, an interesting mystery.
June 25, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Ocean Isle Beach, NC
From the beach we saw 8-10 objects blinking and moving along individual trajectories. The objects would quickly move, stop blinking for several seconds and change direction. Some of them would disappear and then show up again. They would also stop and become stationary at times. After several minutes, they all moved out of sight. These objects were initially about 30 degrees from the horizon. Immediately after them disappearing, another light was visible for approximately 30 seconds. This final light was much larger and had an orange glow.
August 8, 2019 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Ocean Isle Beach, NC
At 9:40pm looking directly over the North Carolina ocean on a clear night with a half moon, we saw first one, then 2, deep orange glowing orbs over the ocean at an angle of 30 degrees. On this night, that means these lights appeared stationary, halfway between the ocean horizon and the half moon. From Ocean Isle Beach, 30 degrees into the sky and almost straight out into the ocean, but more like 20 degrees to the right/south. Which was almost directly under the half moon at this time on this date. 3 nights prior, my brother and I saw a green fireball (meteor I assume) Bright green and going straight down into the water, directly straight over the ocean (probably burning up prior to hitting). This night was another clear night and I was on the beachfront deck with 3 others: My wife, my friend, and my sister. All 4 of us witnessed the event: brief but long enough for everyone to turn their heads and witness enough of it (both lights). The event itself: 1 deep orange stationary light appeared in the sky. It was about the overall luminosity of the half moon in the sky, so quite bright. More of an orb than a small point. Since we were spotting meteors, I yelled to look at that one coming right at us. (Thinking it was a large fireball headed directly at us since it appeared stationary.) But then it lasted too long and didn't move, and then started going out exactly as a 2nd one started glowing. Briefly this was like 2 orange headlights in the sky coming at us. As a guess, it seemed like 3 miles out over the open ocean at a 30 degree angle into the sky off the horizon. No boats in the area (some to the distant left and right), and no planes in the sky, at least none anywhere to be seen with lights on them. Visibility was strong, with the milky way band of stars visible directly overhead despite the half moon. The 2 orange lights only lasted about 15 seconds and each appeared stationary, and locked, horizontal to each other. Based on the distance away they appeared like they were 1/10 of a mile apart in the sky. The first light lasted 6 seconds, then started to fade concurrent with an equal and opposite brightening of the 2nd light to the right of the first light. Then the original light was gone and the light to the right was on, for about 5 additional seconds, then both were gone. They came on and off but didn't move otherwise. I went online to see if this is common in NC, and it's ultra common over the last 20 years. Lots of people seeing this type of thing and not a lot of good theories. But this video from 6 months prior seems to show exactly what the 4 of us witnessed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkUs79K940E Closest guess would be military exercises, flares on parachutes. But the lack of planes and the lack of smoke trails and any movement at all are an issue. Also, some other events seem to last longer, this one was rather fast and not useful for flares unless they failed somehow. Kind of a Chinese lantern glow but it was super windy that day and there was no movement, and we were watching the sky all night for meteors and I'm not sure how they could get out over the ocean and only ignite themselves briefly like that. The shutting off of the one on the left and concurrent turning on of a new one on the right make it 10x more eerie than if it was just one odd light, because it seemed like it could signify intelligent intent - which could of course be a coincidence. When filing these reports does anyone get back to you to say what it was, or to see if they can confirm if there were military exercises off the coast of NC that night? In the above similar event video online, it was in December and on a Tuesday rather than a Thursday night, but they said it happened "between 9 and 10 pm" which was a match, also a match in terms of appearing out in the ocean and slightly to the right. Though above video appears like a 20 degree angle and our event was a bit higher in the sky. Just after and seemingly unrelated, way to the left/north up the coast was a very distant storm cloud with frequent lightning within the cloud, looking like stranger things type movie effect. Visible lighting but eerie, and all within 1 cloud. Very distant though and to the left rather than straight/right, where there were no clouds, boats or planes. Though I guess that means some sort of exotic orange ball lighting could an angle.
October 7, 2018 · 2:00 AM · DISK
Ocean Isle Beach, NC
At approximately 2:00 i could not sleep because I witnessed many craft the previous night but, I could not pick them up because they were so high up. That night one flew from due north over the house at a high rate of speed, it then abruptly changed direction without losing speed on a 45 degree angle to due east, then disappeared. I’ve been spooked since. When I went out and looked the following day, at first I didn’ see anything. The front of my house faces due south, so when I looked up to the southeast, i could see Orion, i’ve Always enjoyed Orion. After a time, I saw what at first I thought was a star, however I saw that it was moving and appeared to be changing colors from reddish orange to a blue green color. It looked like it was pulsating, and it would fade in and out. Some of the fading was due to a thin layer of clouds. I then went into the house to retrieve my iphone6s to record it. I recorded 20 minutes. When I replayed the video and zoomed in, I realized that it was 2 discs flying in conjunction. It appears it's possible other craft came into the picture as well. I don’t know for sure. I watched for as long as possible, but eventually the cloud cover became too thick. I don’t know what they are, however if you want the video footage, you are welcome to it.