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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
July 13, 2020 · 1:00 AM · CIRCLE
Clemmons, NC
I was trying to go to sleep but couldn’t, and I was faced towards my window. I had just closed my eyes when there was a blinding light, and when I opened them I saw a ball of light zoom last my window. It was going incredibly fast. I don’t really believe in aliens, thought a UFO doesn’t necessarily mean aliens, so I just lied there for a while to trying to rationalize what I saw. But, it kept haunting me so I checked twitter to see if anyone else had seen it and tweeted about it, then I went online to see if any planes were flying in my area and the closest one was three hours away. At that point, I decided to report it.
July 11, 2020 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Louisburg, NC
On Friday July 11, 2020, I was awaken by a thunderstorm. I like watching thunderstorms, so I got up, and went out to back deck. It was raining hard, and lightning, but I wasn't getting too wet. As I was looking toward my detached garage above and behind my garage, which was about 50 feet from me a oblong bright blue/white object appeared . It looked like it came out of a portal . It hovered there for about 5-8 minutes. Then it started to descend slowly. I'm the kind of person that would grab my phone, and run out to take photos. That didn't happen, or my memory was wiped clean. I woke Saturday morning, and decided to cut my grass. I'm 68 years old, and work 10 hours a day 5 days a week. Monday through Friday. It's hard for me to keep up with outside work. The grass needed cut bad, so I started cutting. When I got to the back yard I saw the high grass had a depression about 12 feet by 12 feet. I got my phone out, and took pictures. When I first saw the depression, I remembered the sighting the night before. I looked for steps or prints leading to, and/or from the depression, but saw none. Monday I called WRAL news Raleigh,NC, and asked if they had had other reports. They said no, and asked me to text the pictures along with my info, so I did.
July 9, 2020 · 9:43 PM · TEARDROP
Hatteras, NC
Observed a large, bright light in night sky descend then zip off. The flight path resembled that of the Nike swoosh emblem. Three witnesses.
July 7, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Morehead City, NC
Me and a friend were meditating on the beach in Morehead City, North Carolina. We decided to lay back and out of nowhere I pointed out two balls of light that were flying over the ocean back and forth sometimes sitting in one place. The way it moved was not what any plane could do. It moved back and forth rapidly and up and down. I've never seen anything like it. It was pretty late at night, probably about 11:00 p.m. and I'm pretty sure it was still there when we left. I haven't thought much of it until I read a story of exciting in North Carolina, so I decided to share mine.
July 4, 2020 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Leicester, NC
We saw something in the sky was still daylight is looked far off but high absolutely impossible for it to be any type of fireworks way to high up and was flying straight up with a trail behind it as some planes seem to do lost it in the clouds did video this bc not one of us could give a good explanation to what it was at all.
July 2, 2020 · 10:30 PM · DISK
Shelby, NC
This happened just after dark around 22:30. I saw a flash of light on my TV screen that was connected to an outside security camera. Which caught my attention. There were two lights on the ground in my garden that was about 100 feet from my house. I watched the light rise up to about 10 feet and the two turn into lights moving counter clockwise direction around a craft. The craft was not big. Probably less than 10 feet across. Couldn't see a shape for the lights. It hovered up, back and forth, and then drifted off to the east into the wooded area and up into the sky. The next morning, I went to investigate any damage done to my garden and you could see some mashed vines and leaves where it had been sitting or hovering. Large round impressions about 12 inches, but not deep.
July 2, 2020 · 8:45 PM · CYLINDER
Huntersville/North Charlotte, NC
I was in a hotel swimming pool doing aerobic exercises while looking up at multiple and impressive contrails in the sky. It was still light. The sky was blue with white puffy clouds. Then I saw what looked like a piece of a flag pole far up in the sky. I kept looking for how a flag pole could only be partially seen in the sky, where was the rest of it? At first, there were not clouds near it. It was silver. It reminded me of a silver beer can without any writing on it. It was upright and seemed to be still. Then a wisp of a puffy cloud obscured it. When the cloud cleared, it was gone. I am certain it was not a normal aircraft or drone. Before this, I had never seen anything before that I was certain qualified as a UFO. The oddest thing is that I stayed in this hotel two months later, and saw a different thing in the sky. I will be filing a September report.
July 1, 2020 · 9:23 AM · DISK
Little Switzerland, NC
Disc shape discovered in photo taken.
June 29, 2020 · 9:50 PM · TEARDROP
Arden, NC
I was taking my dog out and looked up to see an orange light approaching from the north. Moving slowly and silently, it passed over me at a relatively low altitude. As it got closer I was able to make out an inverted teardrop shape with a glowing orange core that looked like fire. After passing overhead it briefly paused and hovered for 5-10 seconds before progressing further south. I watched as it made its way out of sight with my roommate whom I called to come witness the event. In all I could see it for about a minute.
June 29, 2020 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Oak Island, NC
We were driving down Beach Dr near 46th St SE when a set of white-red lights appeared off the coast, roughly 10,000 ft and several miles from the shoreline. Initially there were three lights, but as two of the lights got closer together they became 4. One light stayed alone to the East. Then the five lights came together and disappeared. Roughly 3 seconds later, a larger light appeared and then disappeared as quickly as it came. They never reappeared.
June 29, 2020 · 9:00 PM · CHEVRON
Ocean Isle Beach, NC
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.
June 28, 2020 · 3:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Spruce Pine, NC
We were camping in the mountains of Spruce Pine, N.C., and heard a strange loud whooshing sound. It sounded like a loud wall of wind that caused the previous rain/dew droplets from a shower at 11:30 pm to fall in a line across our tent from left to right. This happened probably 12 times in a row and abruptly ended. The following night the wind blew and sounded like regular old wind and not the line of wind heard beginning faintly on one side of the mountain area getting extremely and disturbingly loud as it passed over us, getting fainter as it disappeared on the opposite side. The tent never moved even though one would think that it would with trees only 25 feet or so above us dropping droplets of water from the leaves. Camped many times over 30 years in the mountains and never have heard something so strange as to wake us from our sleep like that!
June 27, 2020 · 11:45 PM · CHANGING
Nags head, NC
My girlfriend and I were laying out on the beach looking at the stars and listening to the waves on the beach,at about 1145 pm we decide to go back to our hotel room,we get up I'm folding the blanket up and have my back to the ocean when she asked me to look at a light she said came out of the water.When I noticed it it appeared to me to be a red maker light for a boat.We watched it for a few mins and it had shot up into the air shined bright enough to light up the ocean surface as if it was a full moon.2 smaller objects dropped down out of it and went up one on each side and stopped,to were they appeared to be stars.the bigger object started strobing different colors and continues to hover,I pull out the flashlight I had and started to flash it on and off and the object would mimic what I was doing,I ran 400yrds north on the beach and the object moved the same direction following the light,I ran back 400 yrds south on the beach and it moved in the same direction and then shot up in the air and appeared to transform into a cloud and began to move through the sky,I began to use the strobe setting on my flashlight and it got bright orangeish red and much bigger and shot towards us at a speed so fast and with a feeling of fear, I've never been as scared in my life as I was that night,I ran leaving my girlfriend and when I realized she wasn't with me I called to her to come on and she says that she can't, move.she didn't know if she was just scared stiff or if the object didn't want her to move.the object the shoots back out over the ocean back up in the sky and then gets small like the other 2 and just appears as a star.it felt like we were watching it for 30-45 mins but when we got back to the room it was 4am we were missing time.i would take a polygraph test to this event cause as odd as it sounds to say it,it's honestly changed me and how I see life and what I've been taught and my religious beliefs.We couldn't sleep that night ,it makes us feel almost crazy cause if we tried to tell people the story they would just say we are crazy.i won't even go in the ocean anymore cause there is something in there that we don't know about as a human race.
June 25, 2020 · 9:50 PM · SPHERE
North Myrtle Beach, NC
My husband and I were on the balcony of an oceanfront condo in North Myrtle Beach on Thursday night, June 25, 2020. Four bright orange orbs appeared in the sky over the ocean. They slowly disappeared. Then we saw two more in another part of the sky. My husband thought that it was military training and they were dropping flares, but they did not streak; they did not lose their shape; they just hovered until they disappeared. I had never seen anything like it. After that we saw a very large and bright orange star about 20 degrees above the horizon. I thought it could be Mars or Arcturus, but after googling their location it could not have been them. This was low in the sky about 9:30 pm and Arcturus is supposed to be high in the sky. We did not see the star again the next night.
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.
June 13, 2020 · 5:25 AM · TEARDROP
Salisbury, NC
Saw spear or teardrop structure streaming across the sky with a vapor trail and cast off glare from the rising sun. The object was heading east, north east.
June 12, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Huntersville, NC
I observed a bright white light approaching from the east. At first I thought it was Venus or a bright star (I am an amateur astronomer) but it was in the wrong position, much too low and it was moving. It appeared to be an aircraft but did not have any blinking lights and then the intensity of the brightness increased markedly almost like a flare. This increase lasted only a few seconds and it continued westward. I believe it flared once more but cannot remember for sure. As it continued west, it then made a very sharp 90 degree turn north and continued on until I could not see it anymore. The turn was very abrupt - certainly not like any aircraft that I have seen.
June 10, 2020 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Sneads Ferry, NC
The location that we were fishing at did have a sightseeing telescope, but all I could see when i looked through it was a bright orange circle. All of the lights stopped around 23:58 and did not return.
May 23, 2020 · 12:00 AM · DISK
Henrico, NC
Watching the sky with my sister and husband as we had seen ufos the week before(bright white lights). We wanted my sister to see and she did see the same bright white lights. Around midnight we were about to call it a night. My sister and husband both started looking at their phones. At that instance ...6 different “spacecraft” appeared before. Each lighting up at a different time. 6 Then 4 more lit up the same way. By the time I got sisters attention they were gone. Sister went home. My husband and I watched for a little bit more on our deck. Then strangely one of the bright lights started in the sky above tree line and ended up disappearing right in front of me. I came in a drew what I saw. I still have that. The next day I told my sister about the last one that seemed to disappear in front of me and she asked if I looked at that spot. I pointed to her where it was and she found some sort of gelled glob about 1 inch. Why we didn’t take picture I can’t explain. We took a stick and poked on it and it seemed to disintegrate. ( we had 3inches of rain the days bef! ore). The brights lights were unexplainable by itself, but the craft that I saw amazing
May 17, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Henrico, NC
Bright round light started from the right and moved to left at tree line The light moved but did not stay lt the whole time. It was intermittent as it was moving Quickly. Some times it appeared in front of tree and some behind. When thinking it zigzagged We later it may have been more than one because we saw 3 at one time at the most. We saw at least 25 of them with in the hour. The last one we saw before we left. Appeared directly in front of not off to the left as the others, still moved left until behind us. We felt we knew when they were going to show up due to the frogs becoming very loud.
May 11, 2020 · 9:45 PM · OVAL
Charlotte, NC
Driving down 485 outer towards concord. To my left Is a very bright light in the sky. Was there until i couldn’t see it anymore because of the place i was driving. 15 mins i watched it. Very bright oval looking. You could see the depth as it floated in mid air. Went back later to make sure i wasn’t getting it confused with a light and it was not there anymore. At that time i decided to pull over and get a full look at the sky to make sure i wasn’t over looking the bright light and it was Gone. In attempt to take a picture to show it was no longer there i captured another citing on a “Live” photo.
May 9, 2020 · 1:35 PM · OVAL
Bryson City, NC
I was at a cabin located nearly at the top of a mountain, in Bryson City, NC. While taking photos, I was facing East. I saw some unusual cloud shapes, including one that looked like a little circle or oval-shaped cloud and I did not notice anything else unusual, other than the shape of the cloud, until I went back and looked at the pictures again. I took a photo of the sky, and then took other photos. My husband, who was there with me and also believed it to be a cloud, said he watched it move across the sky, in the same direction as the clouds, but much more quickly. In images as little as one minute later, all of the other clouds are still present but there is no sign of the oval-shaped one.
May 4, 2020 · 8:07 PM · SPHERE
Pittsboro, NC
Monday May 4, 2020 8:05 PM UFO sighting (bright, round, white object [1/2 magnitude of Venus] with a much smaller [dimmer] object tethered below and swinging conically. Sunset 8:07 pm Pittsboro, NC Object lost light @ 8:44 pm ENE @ Aprox 50° to 55° Same location as last star in tail of Big Dipper now (8:51 pm) Approximate location right at Sunset which was 8:07 p.m. Altitude 55 degrees Azmith 53 degrees
May 3, 2020 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Murphy, NC
I went outside to get some air. I was looking up at the sky, checking out the moon (I was facing south and then I looked up and to the left) Saw a plane flying from South to North, blinking white light and red light. (I was in the USAF for 8 years, and am very familiar with aircraft lights, landing lights, aircraft size, etc.) Started looking at the direction of Venus and then I saw one bright small light, to the left of Venus, moving from South to North. It caught my eye because it was not blinking, just steady light. I followed it from South over Venus, and then to the North. Then it disappeared to the North. I turned and looked to the left at the moon, and that back in the direction of Venus (as I looked at the moon, Venus was to my direct right). I saw another (second) steady small light travelling north. Steady light, no blinking lights. Then about a half mile behind it, since it was way off in the distance and looked way above the clouds 4 to 5K feet or more, another (third)steady white small star light like moving from South to North. This time the first light made a round turn from North to East and then South East. The Second light continued straight and went out of sight. I followed the first light as it headed Southeast and disappeared above the clouds. All three lights were constantly steady; no blinking lights near or on it, just steady white light. Seemed very strange to me. Not a satellite since the second one clearly changed direction. Speed was constant on all separate 3 lights. All 3 lights were at least a mile or so apart. Although the first light was vastly separate (in distance and time, about 5 minutes time went by from the first one until I saw the second two.