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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
October 24, 2021 · 3:45 AM · LIGHT
Boone, NC
I was driving down NC 421 headed East from Boone headed toward Wilkesboro on my way home from work. I was the only car on the road as far as I could see. As I was driving, off to the left of the road (right around the area of the Food Lion on Deep Gap on Old 421) was what looked like an extremely bright and close star. It looked almost ovular, like it was a band of light lying horizontal. I happened to notice it out of the corner of my eye, and I looked at it. Once I looked in its direction, it immediately dropped out of the sky in a perfect vertical drop, as if it was propelling itself downward, much faster than if something was just falling from the sky. After it dropped down, it disappeared and I didn’t see anything else like it for the rest of my drive home. As I was replaying the sight of it, I was trying to think of something else that it could have been, like a floodlight in a construction zone falling off of a post, or a drone; but, I concluded that! the speed at which it was moving had to have been faster than the speed of an object falling due to gravity.
October 22, 2021 · 3:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Winston Salem, NC
Surveillance camera caught what appears to be a cloud like triangle shaped objects that develops quickly and has wings. And then jumps and then slowly goes out if site
October 20, 2021 · 9:24 PM · CYLINDER
Flat Rock, NC
I did not see anything except the moon and sky when I took the shot. After I came back inside I noticed that an object appeared in both photos. One above the moon and the other a bit higher and right of it in the second shot, both within that timeframe of 3 seconds. The moon is bright white. The object is tinted blue with a cylindrical almost u-shaped body. It also had its own glow. Since I didn't see the photo until well afterwards, I have no idea how long it remained in the sky.
October 18, 2021 · 7:40 PM · CHANGING
Charlotte, NC
There were two orange lights in the sky to the south of where I was standing. One was hovering, apparently not moving. When I first saw the lights, the one on the right seemed to be an elongated shape with multiple lights, and then a more compact shape. The light to the left moved, varied in intensity, changed color, and seemed to fade in and out. The other did not appear to move. They both went away after a while—I did not see them leave the area. Planes flew over the whole time I was watching, and I heard jets at one point. I am not sure how long the lights were in the sky before I saw them. Nothing was reported on Flight Aware. Helicopters and drones could both hover, but these seemed too large and higher up than either of those would be.
October 9, 2021 · 6:16 AM · CIRCLE
Henrico, NC
Video from blink camera
October 5, 2021 · 2:15 AM · FORMATION
Cerro Gordo, NC
I noticed a group of around 9 to 10 lights of changing colors ranging from pink to green and blue hovering in the sky for around 30 minutes. I couldn’t see a distinct object because of how far away it was from me but it was noticeable enough to catch my attention when I was going to get a glass of water around 0215
October 2, 2021 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Little River, NC
Initially observed what appeared to be a stationary exceptionally bright light above US Hwy 17S in Shallotte NC. The object remained stationary for several minutes, then began moving very slowly along the Highway towards Myrtle Beach, SC. The object remained in the sky, disappeared behind clouds for a few moments then was visible again. Object was still clearly visible overlooking the Intracoastal waterway in Little River, SC. The object appeared to be moving out over the ocean still with a very bright light. The light faded to orange and disappeared within seconds. Sky was rather clear.
September 27, 2021 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Blowing Rock, NC
On the night of September 27, 2021 I was going on a night drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was just me in the car. I accessed the Parkway at Aho Gap, which is milepost 288, and drove south towards Linville. I left at 10:00 p.m. and was home by 10:40. I will acknowledge now that this was a normal time for me to be up and active. I work second shift at a hotel and am usually up until midnight or until 1 a.m. I do not know at what specific point I saw the three red lights, I just remember looking straight ahead and seeing them. I remember I passed Cone Manor (milepost 294) and Julian Price Park (milepost 297) and saw the lights before the Linville Viaduct (milepost 304). The lights were large in diameter and had an aura around them that was the same color. I initially thought they were the lights of the radio tower of Black Mountain (around milepost 342.2), which can be seen on the side of a mountain far ahead. However, these lights were straight ahead of my car. I remember thinking, “That’s weird, I’ve never seen them straight in front of me before.” I was also not on the Parkway long enough to be anywhere near the radio tower lights. It would take me over an hour to reach them going 30-35 mph and I was only on the Parkway for roughly 40 minutes. That includes the return time. But I did not think much of it beyond that, until I went out again the next night with my sister. Not much further ahead, the lights disappeared and then they were right outside my car. They appeared between the front passenger side window and the right side of my windshield, and I was above the road. It felt like I was driving above them (not directly above, but to the left, since I could see the lights through the front right windows of my car), and then I was turned around on the Parkway to head back in the direction of Aho Gap. It is difficult to describe this part. I wrote down everything that happened when I got home so I would not have to rely on memory. However, this event is hard to describe because when I was at an overlook that I did not pull into (Grandmother Overlook, milepost 307.4) I could not remember turning into it. Whenever I tried to remember, I just got flashes of driving over the red lights. Since I was facing the direction home (north), I decided to return home. It felt later than it was, I could have sworn I got home after 11 p.m. and closer to midnight, but I texted my sister when I got home and I was home at the latest by 10:40 p.m. I thought it was my own decision to turn around at that point and head home, so I did. On the way back, I was not sure which way I was driving. I knew I turned out of Grandmother Overlook but I could not tell if I was driving towards home or away from it. I frequently drive the Parkway, even at night, and I always drive south since I am more familiar with that direction and I can easily recall how much farther until I can turn down Aho Road (via Aho Gap). The frequency of which I drive the Parkway is anywhere from two to four nights a week from June to October. Even when I reached Julian Price Park, I had to think and remind myself if it was always on the left side of the road when I return home (it is). I felt calm during all of this on the night of the 27th. However, I saw faces in the trees that looked like the typical greys, but their faces were stretched. I thought my eyes were tired and I was making faces out of nothing, so I moved my eyes around and the faces were still there. I looked directly at one, since if it is difficult to make something out clearly from my peripheral vision and I look directly at it I will see it for what it is. But the faces were still there, they were not made out of the leaves in the trees, they were superimposed on the leaves. I was calm on the way home but felt like there was someone in my car. I do not know if that feeling is relevant to answering anything about what happened that night, or if it paints a bigger picture. I just wanted to get this somewhere where someone might know what to do with it, because I cannot get the experience out of my head. I have also attached images that I drew to better explain it and document it without relying on memory alone. The images were drawn on September 29th, since I did not think twice about what happened two days before, until I was on the Parkway with my sister on September 28th. It was not until that second night out that I realized it would have been impossible for me to have driven anywhere near the Black Mountain Radio Tower in 20 minutes. I drew the initial sight of the three lights, then I drew what it looked like when they were by my car, and then I drew what I saw on the way home. The last picture disappeared but I was able to redraw it; it is from memory but it is stuck in my head. Take it as you will, but all of the written events I wrote down on the 28th after I realized something was not adding up.
September 27, 2021 · 8:05 PM · FORMATION
Myrtle Beach, NC
We were sitting outside looking North along the beach when three lights that appeared to be stars at first started circling around each other. The objects appeared to be hovering at a distance away from each other before circling. After they rotated around each other two times they parted ways and went opposite directions. After about three seconds the objects approached each other again and made two to three more rotations after which they parted ways again. One object completely disappeared while the others remained in the sky hovering in the same location. The objects seemed to be white/light orange in appearance and did not flash or make any sound. They were high enough in the sky to appear the same size and brightness as stars. The observers were a 23 year old male, a 51 year old male, and a 51 year old female. The previous night the same observers witness two objects slightly brighter than stars fly across the full length of the horizon in about 5 seco! nds. They were moving too slow to be meteors, and too fast to be any identifiable aircraft. Both moving in opposite directions.
September 23, 2021 · 10:30 AM · FORMATION
Hubert, NC
I was mowing my backyard on a beautiful, blue sky morning here in north Carolina when I noticed just under the sun, there were a bunch of circular shaped objects shining like bright silver rings in the sky but they were spinning in a circle faster than I could ever imagine. So, I took out my cell phone and started recording. What I found on the recording was mind blowing. I thought I was witnessing an intergalactic battle in our stratosphere and they were hiding in the son. Then I noticed streaks shooting across the sky under and over the top of the sun. But they weren't traveling like any normal flying object I have ever seen. They were literally streaking in arcs and stopping to change speed and directions. They were all over in the sky. I saw little black discs flying in tandum with what looked like a little white ball and the distance between the two never varied ever. It looked as if the were chasing a couple of u.s. marine corps A4 Skyhawks that were up doing some training. I have that on the video also. I also saw bigger discs that seemed to glow in the sunlight as the zipped by. I saw cigar shaped objects, objects that looked like the Saturn rocket re-entry vehicles with what appeared to by some sort of translucent parachute are some kind of slowing/braking? device stretched out above each one. I also saw what looked like teardrop shaped craft that kind of resembled a horseshoe crab with a fat bloated belly, discs that have symmetrical lines that looked like white beanie caps with, what look like engine exhaust ports on the bottoms of them and what I believe are antenna sticking out of the bottoms. I also documented disc shaped objects that glowed blue or greenish and they had a donut hole cut out of them. I was amazed at what I was witnessing. Even more so when I watched the video playback. That's when I discovered the white discs, black circle On the bottom in the center streaking across the sky at incredible speeds.! I have video evidence of all of this.
September 18, 2021 · 3:30 AM · OTHER
Bakersville, NC
Woke up at 3:30am seen a circle projection in the room with figures inside humanoid figures. Watched the figures tie up the other figure in an X shape 4 quartered, and then say to the other hes angry. The bound figure then broke loose and ran and the circle disappeared and there was something in my house. I woke my fiance and she went outside thinking it was the neighbors but instead seen a humanoid pitiful looking skinny creature run under our car with green eyes. I found out later that day my 7 year old son had seen the projection looking light too but had stayed in bed in his brothers room.
September 15, 2021 · 10:23 AM · LIGHT
Jacksonville, NC
It was moving at a rather steady speed. No noise. There was a huge light shining downward.It looked as though it was trailing through the air.It was followed also led by 2 other flying crafts.
September 8, 2021 · 11:58 PM · UNKNOWN
Franklin, NC
I was on my ex gf cabin porch at night sitting with my dogs. All of a sudden it seemed like every dog and coyote within miles were either barking or howling all at once. My dogs were going nuts. Out of nowhere a completely dark very large craft drifted over the house moving at what seemed 10 to 15 mph smoothly. It seemed so large that it blocked the moonlight as it flew over. It made a strange whooshing noise like no other flying craft I have ever heard. But the noise was only while it was right above the house. I did not hear the craft coming or leaving. It was so low that the large trees were shaking and it seemed to kind of rumble the house. My dogs retreated inside terrified and as quickly as the craft arrived it was gone and then there was complete silence for a min. Which if you live in the woods you know there is always noise. This was silence, no frogs, no crickets, no cicadas, nothing. It was the wildest experience with a ufo I’ve ever had. Just typing this story has every hair on my body standing up.
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.
August 29, 2021 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Atlantic Beach, NC
Laying on the beach at night close the the Ferris wheel on Carolina beach, small fast moving white lites in the sky moving quickly, sometimes making a small nimble change in direction, but most following the same path, most of the lights were traveling individually, but now snd the your would see a2 or 3 acting as if they are racing. This same sighting was on both nights we were at the beach. The lights are very small and unless you are focused on looking at stars you might miss them. It almost appeared to be drones racing but the light was a single small white light on all of them. No sound was observed.
August 29, 2021 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Durham, NC
Bright white and red/orange lights flashing and darting around in the night sky. I watched it for about 40 minutes and took 2 videos with my iPhone. It was so bright!
August 22, 2021 · 3:45 PM · CIRCLE
Greensboro, NC
In the middle of the day (sparse cloud coverage but otherwise bright, blue sky) my friend and I were down at the park near my house and we were just looking at the clouds and we see this collection of about 8/9 tiny dots in the sky. They were too small to capture on camera and we didn’t have a telescope or binoculars. They were above cloud level and sort of bright/reflective and a couple seemed to have red lights on the bottom. There were two more close by but not part of the cluster. As we watched them the would move closer together and then spread out again and at one point formed a triangle formation (like birds or airplanes might). They eventually moved out of sight behind the clouds and we didn’t see them any more. The whole event lasted about 30 minutes. Afterwards we saw a couple planes fly past that were much, much closer to earth.
August 18, 2021 · 7:20 PM · OVAL
Charlotte, NC
Oval shaped objects flying northwest to southeast at impossibly fast speeds for the altitude. 2 more objects at high altitudes circled.
August 17, 2021 · 8:55 PM · FIREBALL
Durham, NC
My friend was leaving a business in downtown Durham, NC around 9 PM last night when he looked up and saw three "flares" slowly floating by above the old Durham Bulls Athletic Park. He filmed them on his smartphone and shared it.
August 10, 2021 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Supply, NC
On the coast of Holden Beach, North Carolina. Initial sighting of white, hovering, flashing lights at 9:30 PM EST. About 4 flashing lights remained in a rectangular formation for a few minutes before moving in unpredictable yet coordinated directions. An hour later(≈10:30 PM) the lights reappeared, but culminated into more coordinated and sporadic movement. The lights converged into a line before becoming bright orange shortly before returning to normal. At about 11:20 PM, the flashing lights returned to move around the sky in bizarre directions. The white flashing lights appeared often in the sky over a span of a couple hours, but the lights turning orange and moving as coordinated as they did only happened once. Whatever UFO activity it may have been was extended over the period of a few hours and only transformed in bright orange lights for a fraction of the whole experience. This phenomenon was witnessed by me, as well as several members of my fami! ly.
August 9, 2021 · 10:20 PM · FLASH
Hatteras Village, NC
2 fast moving orbs, that quickly changed colors between red and white, moving in an not uniformed pattern over the ocean. Stopped abruptly and one after the other, flashed white to VERY bright orange, almost like an explosion and then completely disappeared from the sky.
August 7, 2021 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Willow Spring, NC
My son and I were sitting on our back porch when I noticed a bright, orange light through the tree line. I asked my son if it was a star and he said he wasn’t sure? So, I went out to the front yard and watched it intently for about 2-3 minutes. It seemed to look like a vertical line rather than a star shape. It would get bright and then dim and then bright again. I came and retrieved my binoculars to try and get a closer view. While gazing through them, it would continue to get bright, then dim, and so on. Then, to my amazement, it looked as if the object split and as if the top portion now looked more as a star shape and below it were 5-6 “sparkle-like” objects….something like a comet’s tail. But, it stayed stationary for the entire time. When I observed the split, I came back in to get my son to come take a close look, but by the time we went back, within 2 minutes, it had disappeared. The strange thing is that it appeared once again in the following night! , but then it hasn’t been back since. It was as bright as a planet but kept changing from bright to dim. I’m hoping others also caught sighting of it. It was near White Memorial Church Road and Jackson King Road area.
August 1, 2021 · 4:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Greensboro, NC
This is not A UFO sighting. This is an abduction/ physical encounter. On the night of August 1st/ early morning of August 2nd I believe I was visited by extraterrestrial being(s) in my apartment bedroom. I have experienced sleep paralysis numerous times in my life and this was far from it. I slept with my lamp on. I awoke to looking at my lamp in my bedroom which was closest to my bedroom door. I was unable to move and I was able to see white medical tubes all over my body similar to an IV. There were atleast 2 people or entities walking around the left of me out of my view. I felt as if someone took a needle and put it in my arm and gave me something that paralyzed me. But I was awake to the point where I could see and hear my entire bedroom. It also felt as if something was draining blood/ energy from my body and dehydrating me. I moaned and moaned and was unable to turn my head but I was focused on my lamp and I could see and hear people moving in my bedr! oom closest to the wall where I could not turn my head. It was if I was raised or proped up off of the bed because I was able to hear and see my phone ringing. It was my ex girlfriend calling. I started to cry because I felt I was going to be killed or drained completely of blood or whatever was happening to me and that I would not be able to make a phone call or call out for help. I was able to make eye contact with my phone and see that she was calling, it was 4am which is the time that she wakes up and goes to work. I was able to slightly turn my head towards what was moving in my room but not enough but I could still hear my phone ringing and vibrating. I could still see white IV like tubes all over my body and it was painful. I could not stop moaning from the pain but did not have enough strength to scream. I would blink ever so often as it felt like something was physically sucking liquid out of my body through these tubes and I felt the weakest I have ever felt in my! life. I could hear an air sucking noise similar to a tire def! lated in my ear which would last for 3 or 4 seconds at a time. I had decided to try and struggle as much as I could, I felt that I was going to die if I did not get to my phone or call out for help. I was awake as I am now but was physically unable to move and I could feel see and hear everything around me. This lasted close to 15 minutes.I remember not being able to stop moaning from how much pain and dehydration I was feeling. I could still feel rustling and walking all around my bedroom which scared me the most because I could not do anything about it but all I could see was dark shadows on the wall from someone moving in my bedroom but my eyes were still able to see the lamp. I took a deep breath and blinked and all of the tubes were off of my body. I was able to move. I sat up and grabbed my phone and saw that my ex gf called and I decided not to call her back till the morning. I was exhausted my body was dehydrated as if I did not drink water for a week. It hurt. My arm had 2 ! small scab/prick marks as if I was poked with a 2 pronged small needle. I was not nervous or scared anymore. It did not process to me what happened until the next morning when I called my ex gf back and talked about it. I have never experienced anything like this, I do not want an explanation. I just wanted to share an experience which happened to me and I truly believe that I was visited in my apartment bedroom in Greensboro NC. I did not witness any bright lights or see a UFO. I'm typing this on August 13th, and still have the scars and scabs on my arm.
July 13, 2021 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Winston-Salem, NC
Bright light moving fast across sky, changed direction then burst off into space. all captured on video