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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
December 5, 2020 · 6:55 PM · FORMATION
Leland, NC
Sighting from backyard in Brunswick Forest development, Leland, NC (near Wilmington, NC) Two bright dots in the sky between Mars and Neptune at 6:55pm approximately, December 5, 2020. The dots were aligned perpendicular to the line between Mars and Neptune. They were about the size that Mars appeared, but brighter than Mars. When I first looked up and saw the two dots positioned as they were, it looked like Orion’s Belt. Then I said, “hey wait a minute”, since there were only two stars! As I said that, the two stars dimmed to about the brightness of Mars. They were about an inch apart if I was to hold my hand up to the sky to guess distance. After they dimmed, they simultaneously moved about two “sky inches” from my position up and to the right. Then they rapidly faded from sight without moving location. It was a clear evening, mid 50s temperature, moon had not yet risen above my sight line. I was looking almost due south at the time. The “dots” were about 45 degrees up from the horizon. No sound. Observed by one adult female, aged 46. I’ve seen other craft over the years dating back into the 1990s.
December 3, 2020 · 7:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Fort Bragg, NC
3 lights horizontally in a row moving horizontally in slow motion towards base. Too slow for a plae or helicopter to stay in the air. Then bright burst of white light, a 90 degree turn, then fast move up and into the clouds. As a typical black hawk was coming/ flying over to land at the base. It was as if who or what did not want the pilots to them! The object dod not make any sounds at all.
November 21, 2020 · 6:22 PM · CIRCLE
MOORESVILLE, NC
Sent video and picture in email. Video explains all we saw
November 21, 2020 · 5:58 PM · LIGHT
Oak hill, NC
Looking up thinking we saw a satellite. Watched it move for about 20 seconds then it began getting brighter and brighter for about 7-10 seconds and then started to fade. We watched it until the original dimmer light faded into the night sky.
November 19, 2020 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
King, NC
Triangular shaped objects that put off no sound, with blinking red and white lights underneath flying overhead
November 19, 2020 · 7:10 PM · CIRCLE
Havelock, NC
Air traffic control received information about a pod or circular object approximately 3 nautical miles SE of Cherry Point, NC at 23,000 Feet by an F15 fighter jet.
November 18, 2020 · 6:40 PM · FORMATION
Charlotte, NC
Me and my dad were in the car.When he saw something in the sky.I looked up and didn’t want to believe it.I saw a formation of lights.I saw 3 lights , but my dad said he saw more.He said it had the shape of an oval .When I tried to take a photo they were gone.We then proceeded to look for them , we got on bridges and saw no trace of it.
November 17, 2020 · 6:00 PM · OVAL
Belmont, NC
Yesterday on November 17, 2020, around 6 PM I was traveling from Charlotte, North Carolina to Belmont, North Carolina when I observed a strange object in the sky. I observed it for 5-7 minutes. After I arrived to my home, I parked and began walking towards an area where I hoped to continue observing it but I could not see it. The object appeared large and was positioned vertically and shaped like a stretched out oval with the bottom of the oval being denser in mass the top. The top of the oval almost appeared to trail the object, which first led me to believe it may be a comet. When the object did not move it was apparent it was not a comet. It was white with a light orange hue and was opaque with the outer rim having a cloudlike quality that was less opaque. The center of the object was black and had no opaque quality. The center did not appear to be reflecting light. The black center contrasted starkly with the outer rim. I could not see anything solid in the center – only blackness, almost like a dark hole.
November 16, 2020 · 5:33 AM · OTHER
Gastonia nc, NC
i was driving to work, all of sudden this big doughnut shape craft appears in the sky, it was in a slow motion for about 4 seconds than flew away and dissapear in the sky.
November 13, 2020 · 5:50 PM · LIGHT
Julian, NC
One point of light moving from south to north causing a scattering of light effect similar to something entering the atmosphere at high speed (like a bullet entering water in slow motion) yet the night was clear and no other air craft presented this quality. The light then broke into two separate lights moving further away from each other with two more subsequent lights “breaking away” and moving in a N/NE direction.
November 13, 2020 · 5:40 PM · LIGHT
Raleigh, NC
I saw two lights moving in an irregular pattern. They were spaced too far apart to be connected on an airplane and I saw nothing connecting them, but they were moving perfectly in tandem. They were alternately fading in and out (one became brighter as the other faded out). They eventually moved so that only one was visible above the trees - and that one moved suddenly in a different direction and then stationed in the sky. I was at an intersection and had to drive before I could see anything more.
November 13, 2020 · 5:35 PM · LIGHT
clayton, NC
The second set of lights had alot more movement east. This group had more lights but these lights had different sets within the group. The sets were moving in sequence but was all doing something different.
November 13, 2020 · 5:30 PM · CHANGING
Corapeake, NC
I noticed a plume following a bright light and as the bright light rose the plume got bigger (not unlike the rocket plume on TV from California) and the light separated into 2 lights and one went approximately 1 mile in front of the other then they traveled the same speed and then they left the plume when 2 more lights appeared about 15 to 20 miles behind the first 2 then 2 more lights appeared ahead of the last 2 lights and then they disappeared and then reappeared several times. They were all going the same speed until they went out of sight. They traveled southwest to northeast and looked like satellites but to low and to high to be jets.
November 13, 2020 · 5:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Goldsboro, NC
Three Shiny Objects in the Evening Sky On the evening of November 13, 2020, I was standing on my front porch facing the direction of south. The time was 5:30 pm, and the sun was beginning to set. There were a few scattered clouds in the sky, but nothing to obscure my vision. I noticed a bright light in the sky, traveling from the south to the north in a liner direction. When the bright light approached the cloud, an orange color surrounded the moving object. This object was quiet and no contrail was discovered. The orange glow lasted for a brief time (approx. five seconds or so). After seeing this questionable object in the evening sky, I wanted to verify the identity of this object. I returned to the house and located a spare riflescope that placed on a shelf in my bedroom closet. I returned to the front porch to observe this object to closer examine it with the aid of a multi power riflescope ( this scope has the power to multiply the image of a target from three times to nine times the size seen with the naked eye). I used the highest degree of magnification to identify the object in question. While looking thru the scope, all I could identify was a small shiny object; I could not discern any features with this rifle scope. I have used this same optical device to identify the ISS; I have seen the shape and colors of the ISS. After trying to identify the object in question, I discovered two similar objects accompanying the object I was examining. All three objects were traveling in a triangular fashion. The objects appeared to resemble a formation that traveled the same direction and kept the same speed between them. I aimed the spare riflescope at each of the objects, but I was unable to discern any details of each object. I continued to observe the three objects until the trees concealed them. I observed them for approximately 40 seconds. I live near Seymour Johnson AFB in eastern North Carolina, and we have F-15E fighter jets and KC-46 refueling aircraft. The military aircraft produce a loud exhaust emitted from the jet engines, and they can be heard from several miles away. I have seen the fighter jets engaged in full afterburner at night; they do not stay in full afterburner for extended periods because the afterburners will quickly consume hundreds of pounds of fuel in a very short period. The objects in question were not commercial aircraft either; I have used lower powered binoculars to identify jet powered passenger aircraft flying at their regular altitudes (they produce a contrail from the hot exhaust cooling in the extreme cold high altitudes they cruise at). I could not identify these objects. They were shiny. They flew in an orderly fashion. They were quiet. I could not identify them as conventional jet powered aircraft. They emitted no contrails. They were too high in altitude to clearly identify them (although I can identify any civilian/military aircraft with assisted optics: spare rifle scope or binoculars). The objects traveled in a steady and smooth path; no deviations. What did I witness? I do not know. There were three shiny objects that traveled across the evening sky. I have witnessed satellites, the ISS, shooting stars, military fighter jets engaged in afterburner at higher altitudes engaged with other fighter jets, and dirigibles. Dirigibles do not move across the horizon at the altitude and speed I witnessed. I noticed the first object projected an orange glow (that encompassed the entire object) when approaching a nearby cloud, but the orange glow ended shortly. The object never traveled below the cloud. The orange cloud may have been an image produced by the reflection of the setting sun. Whatever they were, I haven’t a clue. I could not positively identify them with my spare riflescope. There were three, and they traveled in a triangle formation. No other aircraft were available in the area. I have never experienced an event like this. Three shiny objects traveling south to north in a triangular formation that traveled in a steady course with no deviation. Thank you for reading my personal testimony.
November 13, 2020 · 5:35 AM · LIGHT
Benson/four oaks, NC
It began as what looked to be a surface to air missile, a vapor trail up to about 40 degree angle in relation to the road, then it stopped in the sky in what looked like a cloud of vapor then it like blew all the vapor away like a huge fan just pushed all the vapor clouds away and it then became 2 bright lights moving in unpredictable directions and then 2 more appeared lower within its original flight path moving left right up and down it went way high dropped back down and raised back up then a 3rd appeared with the lower 2 and the other 2 higher in the sky continued irrational movement but in a controlled manor then the trees on the side of the road blocked our view until we got to a break in the tree line we could still see the 2 at the higher angle in the sky until they disappeared. The original vapor trail looked as though it possibly originated somewhere towards the Jacksonville direction.
November 8, 2020 · 11:30 PM · CIGAR
Alexander, NC
I watched a cigar shaped object with binoculars hover for 2 hours (23:30-1:30am) until cloud cover impeded my view. It was located at 150 degrees SE from my side yard at approximately a 25 degree inclination. It had lights across the midsection of the shape and appeared to move slowly East as the object became smaller. It never disappeared or changed altitude. I go outside every night to view the sky and have never seen this before. Woke my husband, a retired satellite engineer, up who also saw the object. Neither of us could find an explaination of something that could stay stationary for that length of time.
November 5, 2020 · 6:30 PM · UNKNOWN
kinston, NC
looking east,i saw a very light orange in color light,moving very fast heading south to north,there were other planes in the sky,this light was moving much faster,but what seemed so strange about this is it had an enormous rainbow shaped arc like a contrail,somebody else had to have seen this
October 31, 2020 · 9:00 PM
Lilesville, NC
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October 26, 2020 · 7:12 PM · UNKNOWN
Morehead City, NC
At approximately 7:12 pm tonight I walked out onto my second floor porch to get some air and saw something I've never seen in my 58 years. My porch faces south. Suddenly, coming from the east, I saw, out of the corner of my eye, a bright yellowish/white small light at about a 40% elevation. But the speed!!! As it went, it seemed to be getting further away slightly and on a very slightly downward trajectory. There seemed to be a few much smaller lights close behind it. Sparks? It made no noise that I could hear. It was visible for 3 seconds but went more than halfway (maybe even 70%) across my field of vision in that time. I literally had to keep moving my head around to the right to keep my eye on it. I know I'm not explaining the speed well but suffice it to say I have never seen anything move like that. No "shooting star". No airplane. Nothing. I was just standing there with my mouth hanging open. At that point I lost sight of it. I waited a few ! minutes to see if there would be more but there weren't. I'm a 58 year old, retired medical assistant. I was the only one present. I just wanted to report this in case others do also.
October 24, 2020 · 7:28 PM · CIGAR
Wilmington, NC
A group of friends were on a small island on the intracoastal near Wilmington, NC. We saw what first appeared to look like a comet in the distance but it continued to come closer to our location. Once it was above our group it looked like a long disc shape with approx 10 equally shaped and uniform white lights. All 7 in our group witnessed the same account. It was not like anything we had ever seen. It soon disappeared altogether. There is no explanation for what we saw.
October 20, 2020 · 8:18 PM · LIGHT
Canton, NC
We all watched as it went completely across our field of vision, which thankfully we have a large area that is cleared of anything that could possibly inhibit our line of sight. I would give an absolutely 100% time frame, but I was so stunned by what I was seeing, that I stood there dumbfounded, for several minutes and then we all stood there and discussed what we had seen. I know the exact time of when I got home, due to being a business owner, I have to keep track of all my travel information for income taxes. One other interesting thing about this, my mother, who lives about 6 acres away from us, called me the next morning and asked me had I heard the loud booming sound last night, which none of us heard anything. Not sure if that has anything at all to do with this, but it was around the same time. I do know that we 100% saw something, I am a skeptical person, and have never believed in Aliens or Unidentified Flying objects, but I know that we saw a round/oval object that flashed at least 6 different colors or variations of those colors and flew above my family for at least 3 to 5 minutes at speeds that I have never seen or heard of before. One other interesting thing, after reading several other reports from others, I developed an intense throbbing headache, which has not gone away since I witnessed the object, now it has been 4 days. I have taken Aleve, Advil, Tylenol pretty much anything that has ever worked before and it will not go away. All of the 5 of us, had a weird "taste/smell", like when you get an IV and you sense the salinity thru your nose or taste buds, its like a very faint miles away skunky smell that also had a metallic taste. Also, several family members have also had other symptoms that are unusual, my 21 year old son can't sleep at all, he is usually a heavy sleeper that could sleep anywhere really. My 14 year old has the funky smell/ taste thing like I do as well as the splitting headache. My husband who is usually quiet has become a very irritable person, who has a short temper and wants to argue with just about anyone or thing. So with all this, I'm still not sure what the hell we saw that night!
October 16, 2020 · 1:05 AM · SPHERE
Durham, NC
Watching sky for planes, as I often see. No stars were visible and there were no planes - the clouds thick. I saw a stationary light but was not wearing glasses. It then moved a few times in way that a plane cannot. I could not judge the distance. I was stunned and slowly reached for my phone without taking my eyes off of it. It then seemed to disappear or move higher into the clouds. I began flashing my phone's light and after a few seconds it returned. I began recording. It moved again and again, sometimes laterally and other times up and down into and out of the clouds. It disappeared and I stopped recording. This happened a few times. I was able to record it in several videos including it appearing and disappearing completely. Feeling the object was gone, I closed my window to review the video. Once satisfied I had actually captured it, I returned to the window only to see it again - now in a different location. As I opened the window, it di! sappeared again as if it was aware of me.
October 14, 2020 · 11:30 PM · OTHER
Wilmington, NC
Subject: UFO Report: 10/14/2020, 11:30 p.m. EST To Whom It May Concern: I left my sister's house on [street name hidden] Way on Wednesday, 10/14/2020 at 11:30 pm EST (23:30 hours). As I drove down the street, I noticed lights ahead that were hovering over a house and not moving. I slowed down so I could try to make out what I was seeing. It was a large object (around 30 FT wide & 20 FT tall) hovering in the sky about roughly 50 feet above the roof of the house directly across the street from the [street name hidden] Way stop sign. Anyone with a good baseball arm could have thrown a stone and hit it. As I approached the stop sign, I realized it was a lot bigger than I thought- jet black and I could only make out the outline of the craft against the night sky...there were no other markings that I saw, only the lights and outline. It also made no sound that I could hear. I did have my windows up, but the neighborhood was completely silent and no one was outside so if it did display an engine-type sound, I should have been able to hear that considering how close I was to this thing (probably around 150 ft away from me). It had 2 yellow lights on either side of the craft and 3 red lights in the middle. It looked like an upside-down bell but a little wider, more triangle shaped but with rounded edges, and the lights were on the front, not on the side or underneath. It was very thick...very solid looking--not flat. There was nothing protruding on the craft, no wings or blades. It was very large, as I mentioned before--like the size of my living room w/ vaulted ceilings. My first thought was this must be a VERY expensive military surveillance drone due to its size but why the heck is it hovering in our community this late at night?!? It started moving toward me so I floored the gas and sped away as fast as I could. I wasn't sure if it was following me until I turned left on [street name hidden] Ct and there it was. It was on my left moving VERY slowly over the houses on [street name hidden] Ct. heading in the direction of [school name hidden] High School. I raced down the road and pulled into my garage, jumped out to take a picture of it and it was already gone. I have to tell you, that was the most frightening thing I've ever encountered. I made a police report the next day (10/15/2020) and the officer confirmed that “none of their drones were outside at time” and “their drones are only 24 INCHES wide.” I did not take any pics or videos because I was seriously so frightened of being abducted that I could not look away. I did, however, press my sister’s phone number that is saved on my vehicle’s home screen to call my sister via bluetooth. She can attest that I was screaming, “Come outside! Come outside! I think I’m witnessing a UFO!!” She thought I was joking and hung up. I’ve included a hand-drawn picture of what I saw. Thank you for looking into this matter. If it was military, it is quite concerning that they are in a residential neighborhood flying so close to houses.
October 14, 2020 · 8:50 PM · CHANGING
Siler City, NC
Coming out of work site in the driveway in my truck with window rolled down I seen a really bright white light beside a star. It was perfectly still in the sky , I watched it for a couple minutes then I took a picture with my phone. As I was snapping the picture before I could blink it was gone but the picture caught it as it changed shaped to almost oval as it was vanishing. I couldn’t find it in the sky after that.