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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
3,270 entries
January 28, 2022 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Surga Grove, NC
The object was round and had windows and we could see what looked like beings inside it flu in straight line and yes it had lights and little later we seen a orb like 30 foot off the grown this is the truth me and my son both seen both
January 27, 2022 · 5:21 AM · LIGHT
Myrtle Beach, Horry County South Carolina, NC
Saw a UFO sighting this time it was closer and higher up in the air. around 5am I abruptly woke up which I normally do not and went to the balcony (beachfront) and saw UFO with lights flashing and hovering in the same spot. after 30-40 minutes it started to disappear very quickly further out into the ocean. This was the second sighting the first one which was a few days prior had flashing lights white and a one red light and it appeared to be hovering over the ocean (NOT A SHIP) this was a night also.
January 23, 2022 · 11:21 PM · DISK
Charlotte, NC
My plane was descending into CLT airport when I saw it. The moon was a semicircle, so I knew it wasn't that. It was too high above the city to be a drone, and too low to be anything else. It wasn't flashing, and was stationary in the sky. It was disked shaped, had a primary yellow-toned light coming from it's center, and had a similarly yellow glowing aura surrounding it. I'm unsure if I'm the only one on the plane who saw this or not. We passed it quickly, and I was only able to get two photos. However, we turned back in it's direction and I couldn't see it anymore, as if it had disappeared. The second photo is a zoomed-in version of the first. In the third photo, I couldn't fix my shutter speed fast enough, so it's slightly blurred and fuzzy. The blue lights in the first photo are reflections of the interior lights of the plane and are not connected.
January 19, 2022 · 10:30 PM · OTHER
Navassa, NC
I saw what I first assumed to be a bright light from a search helicopter. As it made its way behind the sparse treeline it dimmed its light (not simply shut it off as a normal searchlight would, but slowly dimmed). As it made its way from behind the treeline, I saw the craft almost casually flying parallel to the road near my home. Looking at the craft head on it would have appeared to look like a plus sign, but as it flew past and I was able to see it's side profile it appeared to take on a shape more similar to a nerf football. A car drove under the craft, and I could see in my peripheral vision that they had hit their breaks, then I heard their engine rev and they sped off (so there is a least one more witness, but I have had no interaction with them). The craft traveled at what seemed to be a relaxed pace, was roughly 25 ft in the air, and was approximately 2.5x the size of a Dodge Ram (I inaccurately said Dodge Charger in my conversation on the hotline because I was flustered and am not incredibly familiar with car or truck models, but I had intended to referencethe large trucks). There were no lights that I could see attached to the craft, so I am left to assume it generated it's own light. It was silver in color.
January 16, 2022 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Wilmington, NC
Walking dog 7PM ish noticed odd light over rooftops tops higher level than street lights. Initially stationary than began moving toward me … feeling of “dread” tan back into house
January 15, 2022 · 2:35 AM · CIRCLE
Raleigh, NC
This was caught on my RING door bell camera. This is at actual speed so definitely not a shooting star. There was one bright light moving very slowly at 2:35 am on 1/15/22 out my front door. I am new at the RING camera so for some reason I could only download 2 seconds but I do have the full video of about 25++++ seconds on my ring app.
January 10, 2022 · 2:00 PM · CIGAR
Edenton, NC
I saw two cigar shaped objects with no wings, lights, sound or contrails. They moved from West to East in a very slow in a side by side formation. They were about 10-12k ft altitude.
January 4, 2022 · 5:31 PM · OVAL
Kitty Hawk, NC
I did not sight them until later in the photo
January 3, 2022 · 5:30 AM
Asheville, NC
The blue/green light flashed three times. The first time was further away and I was reading, so I didn't know quite what it was. The second time it happened, it was closer. The third time, the light filled my whole bedroom. Heard a “wom wom” for the second two times. There's nothing in my neighborhood that could've produced this sort of light or noise.
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.)
January 1, 2022 · 12:05 AM · SPHERE
Manteo, NC
Conditions: calm, overcast, ceiling perhaps 10,000 ft. Saw first object near horizon, a single solid red-orange light. Thought it might have been an aircraft taking off from Manteo Airport, but it displayed no navigation lights. Difficult to estimate size, distance, or speed, but all three seemed constant. It passed NW of my location, covering the field of view in 2–3 min. As it moved out of sight, a second appeared in the SW and behaved likewise except that it seemed to pass slightly closer. As it moved out, a third appeared and followed a parallel, but slightly closer track. As THAT moved out, a fourth appeared and passed even closer. The last three may have been redder than the first. The fourth may have exhibited very slight, rapid variations in brightness. No sound audible above background noise—fireworks in town (ca. 1 mi. SE), traffic, and so on. No one to whom I have spoken since saw these objects.
December 31, 2021 · 6:36 AM · CHANGING
Morganton, NC
It was early, I was having my coffee on the porch and I see a light that changes in intensity. I grabbed my phone and recorded a little bit of it. It seems to go from small to larger and changes shape. It looked like a smaller light came from it. It finally stopped moving and I took a picture of it. It looked like it had alot holes in it almost rock-like. I went back in the house and do not know when it left.
December 29, 2021 · 6:28 PM · SPHERE
Fayetteville, NC
I have always been drawn to the subject of ufology, and when I found out that my good friend Jeremy Bledsoe's father could offer some information, I overtime tried to find an opportunity where I could meet him in a comfortable setting where I could ask him questions. Jeremy was very willing to have me and my brother meet his father so we set up a time we could get together, get some pizza and then go golfing. Chris was very open and down to earth when it came to discussing his experience and ufology in general. The time spent with him that day golfing with him, his son, and my brother was more than pleasant. While golfing, Christopher said something along the lines of "Well, why don't you come around the house tonight around 6:30 if y'all want to see something." As the three of us pulled into the property, Chris was waiting for us with his eyes to the sky calling us to come look. **What we saw**: A bright light in an orb shape permeating the night's sky. The orbs' light looked as if it was an animated version of an unstable molecule. The orb was present for a full two minutes or so it did a spiral descent above the cabin and then disappeared. The orb made no noise whatsoever.
December 26, 2021 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Charlotte, NC
Looked up in the sky to see what thought was a huge falling star, but it was falling vertically and never burnt out. It seemed to be of a green color vs a bright white.
December 24, 2021 · 11:15 PM · LIGHT
Fayetteville, NC
I am a 41 year old, retired Army Intelligence Officer with 21 years of active duty service living in Fayetteville, NC. I was on my porch at 11:22 pm Christmas Eve when I looked up as a small flash of light caught my attention. A distant, white light flew from east to west at incredible speed creating a light trail behind it. The light then stopped instantly and paused for half a second at high altitude before accelerating westward and seemingly upward into space creating another light trail behind it as it vanished. There was no sound from the object and the entire event occured in perhaps two seconds within a relatively small area in the visible sky. To me, it looked as though "something" had simply dropped in for a quick look before taking off at or near light speed.
December 23, 2021 · 6:15 PM · SPHERE
Greenville, NC
Moved across the horizon in a group and then behind trees. When the trees cleared they were on top of a building, not that far up from the building. They were spread out. All at different positions. Glowing orange. My daughter says they were red. But we both saw them. If i could connect the dots i swear it would be one thing. They weren't moving. I couldnt get a picture because i was doing 70 miles an hour. I looked at them as much as i could. I had zero explanation for what they were. They didnt have propellers. There were NO POLES under them (obviously, they wee above a building) and they were like balls but were glowing like fire. I tried to rationalize and say they were chinese lanterns except they were BIGGER and they were moving initially but they WEREN'T MOVING when the trees cleared. Ive never seen anything like this in my life. And no one will be able to convince me it was was something man made.
December 20, 2021 · 2:00 AM · CIRCLE
Supply, NC
The object moved a couple times, but I didn't catch it on video when it moved. The movement on the screen you see in the video is from me holding my phone. I had to zoom way out to capture the object. When the object moved, it moved like it had instant acceleration. The most I saw it move was about 20 times or more of its size. But, it had clearly moved in a straight line.
December 18, 2021 · 12:00 AM · CIGAR
Charlotte, NC
looks like an invisible drone?
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.
December 14, 2021 · 6:00 AM · CIRCLE
Madison, NC
This is what I used for direction. If East is 90 degrees and South is 180 degrees, this object was at about 130 degrees. If straight up is 90 degrees, this was 65 to 70 degrees above the horizon. The local time was about 6:08 am on December 14, 2021. I was seated at my front door observing the meteor shower. This light appeared at first the size of a bright star. It got extremely bright over a second or two. The size of the light grew as it got brighter. At its largest I would guess it to be about 1/4 to 1/3 the diameter of a full moon. During this time it remained stationary. After it dimmed back to the size of a star it began moving to the south parallel to the horizon. Observed it moving to the south for a short distance and it just disappeared. AT ALL TIMES IT APPEARED ROUND. Could not verify this is or is not an Iridium Satellite.
December 14, 2021 · 2:00 AM · FORMATION
Kill Devil Hills, NC
Stargazing while the geminids were going on and saw a formation of lights; a triangle and a line flying in parallel from the north to the south tracked across the horizon it crossed in a matter of seconds, and had a feeling that it might've been bending light around it as if it was a single craft.
December 14, 2021 · 12:30 AM · CIRCLE
King, NC
I was driving through Old Highway 52 in between the towns of Rural Hall and King with my mother. At 12:24 am, we both noticed a distant yellowish glowing circular object in the sky rapidly descending downward. It went out of sight after about 3 seconds. My mom also saw red and green lights on it, but I just noticed it was yellowish in color.
December 11, 2021 · 5:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Taylorsville, NC
was pulling out from home and immediately seen a triangular shape hovering right above trees stayed there and slowly moved up past trees.made a loud wind type sound with a loud car on highway type sound in sky. it was dark.it had 3 white lights that stayed lit.
December 10, 2021 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Waxhaw, NC
I Came Out My Backdoor looked up noticed large circular lights flying overhead like in a square formation right over my tree in my backyard about Treetop level. It was silent.. I ran to get my husband in his building and by the time he came out it had traveled about 100 feet in about a minute time. He came out and saw four circular lights no light shining down but there were huge whitish-blue bright light circles in square formation. It continued flying about 400 feet to where it was out of sight over trees in our backyard.