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Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
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September 7, 2023 · 7:28 PM · UNKNOWN
Raleigh, NC
While driving west on Lynn Rd I noticed what I originally thought was a meteor. It appeared to be something falling with a tail lit up behind it. I also noticed 2 small objects to the right of the falling object. I thought they were small planes watching from a safe distance what was happening. They were just lights or light reflecting from the sun off of them. Instantly one of the small lights disappeared, and then the other did as well. The falling object made a steep change towards the opposite direction and continued to fall. I watched as I turned north on Leesville Rd until the trees obstructed my view. I took a picture on my phone of the falling object from my car. The object appears just above the lower trees on the left. You have to zoom in to see it. It looks like a fuzzy streak and that distance. [NUFORC annotation: Contrail - Possible]
September 4, 2023 · 5:16 AM · LIGHT
Clayton, NC
It was close to 5:00a.m. and I went to the store just about 5 miles from where I live south on US70, I got to the store at 5:00a.m., I got what I needed then I walked back to my car got in and started to drive, I was going North to get back home on US70 the time was now 5:15a.m. and something told me to glance over my left shoulder, I looked and thêre it was l, a bright light flying fast and flying low, my first thought was this is flying too low to be a plane but I said nevermind and kept driving, I finally get to a point where I could turn left off of US70 so I did, soon as I turned the light turned to the left with me. I told myself ok I didn't just see that I must be tired and seeing things so I kept driving, on my left hand side is Clayton high school but now the light is on my right hand side and seems to be getting loét, I make it to a stop sign on main street and I make a right turn, the light turns to the right with me, At this point I'm starting to think I'm going crazy cause I know nothing of this world can do that so I tell myself jokingly I'm going to stop and if this light stops I'm getting out of hêre so I stop, The light went about 2 or 3 feet then stopped in mid Air, once I saw that I freaked out, it didn't move until I made a U-turn and started following me again, I made my way back to US70 going south and it followed me all the way back to the store I originally went to, I parked and got out and thêre it was hovering above the store but now it was higher up in the air, it was making slow movements inch by inch in all directions, People that came in and out of store I pointed it out to thêm and they all said they didn't know what it was especially cause they even pointed out the stars that were in the sky and we all agreed what we were looking at definitely wasn't a star, I took out my phone and started to film then I got back in my car and stayed in my car until 6:30a.m. The light was still above the store, I told mýelf I'm going to drive to another store 5 miles from this one going North, I started driving and the light took off following me again slightly ahead of me until I reach the store, I got out to film it but thí time it wasn't showing on my screen, I could see it with my eyes but it wasn't showing on my screen, it's 7:00am I get back on the car and start to drive home. The light followed me until I almost got home then it vanished, My video is short but the few people I sent it to that are like me and done believe in this kind of stuff all said they can't explain what they are looking at
September 2, 2023 · 11:00 AM · OVAL
Clayton, NC
I was walking my dog at approximately 11:00 am on September 2, 2023. It was a beautiful clear day. There may have been a few wispy low level clouds that I noticed earlier during the walk but at the time of my encounter there were no visible clouds. I reached Latitude 35.655348 Longitude -78.350902 and was climbing a small hill north of a small pond next to Triangle YMCA when I looked NNE and saw a hawk in a dive approximately 30 degrees off the horizon. Behind the hawk, I saw a small, oval, white “orb” for lack of a better description. It was slightly larger than a sesame seed held at arms length. I wouldn’t have paid any attention to it, but the movement of the hawk caught my eye. Otherwise, I most likely would have missed this. In fact, initially I thought it was a white bird, perhaps fighting with the hawk. I lost visual sight of the hawk because it blended in with the tree line, but the white orb sat motionless in the sky. I used to be an aviator with the US Air Force and I am used to spotting objects in the sky and familiar with their movement patterns in order to de-conflict traffic. This object was behaving abnormally due to its lack of motion in the sky but honestly, I didn’t think much of it. I continued to walk with my dog off the leash heading north, and the object became obscured behind a tree that was close by me hindering my view. It took me 10 to 15 seconds to pass by the tree and obtain another unobscured view of the sky as a crested the small hill. Curiously I looked up for the object and saw that it was gone. I thought that was a little strange and I proceeded to scan approximately 30° off the horizon from west to east several times looking for movement. I could see nothing, not even small aircraft which frequent the area. I took my eyes off the sky for a few seconds for whatever reason (maybe glancing at my dog or looking down to secure footing), and then looked back towards the area and was surprised to see the object had returned. I stopped walking and decided to observe the characteristics of this object. Again, it was motionless and about a outstretched hand’s width further to the east. I noticed that the object seemed to increase and decrease in size every few seconds, making it clearly visible one moment and then harder to see the next moment. At this point, the object really had my attention solely for the fact that this was unique. I immediately began trying to determine what I was seeing. My first assumption is that this was an aircraft on the horizon, making turns which allowed it to reflect the sun at variable brightness based on its profile in various positions, making it more visible and less visible as it maneuvered. The problem with this assumption is that it appeared motionless in the sky for several minutes. I considered that perhaps it was moving away but that wouldn’t it explain why it appeared to be decreasing and then increasing in size from my vantage point. I considered that this might be a balloon but how could it be motionless when visible, disappear and reappear few miles from its original position and becoming motionless again? It is not my intention to speculate on this craft, but I think it’s important to let you know my mindset as I was observing this. Had it acted like any aircraft I had seen in the past while flying, I wouldn’t have paid any attention beyond a curious glance. It was the uniqueness, and it’s characteristics of flight that caught my attention. It made no sense to me. As I stood and watched the object, I speculated on what it could be, then I realized that my dog was off leash and wandering the field alone behind me. I turned my head to call him back to my side and as I turned back to continue observing the object, it was gone. I began meticulously scanning of the horizon for movement and remember laughing out loud at how odd this situation had become. I didn’t observe any motion in the sky. A lot of times, when an aircraft adjusts its attitude and position, it will no longer reflect the sunlight and become less visible, but your eyes can still catch movement of the craft. There was absolutely nothing observable in the sky after it disappeared. I hooked my dog to my leash and settled in to observe the sky for the next several minutes. I would estimate 2 to 3 minutes passed when the object came into view a third time and was another one to two hand widths across the horizon towards the east. It slowly faded into view and behaved just as it had before. It appeared motionless but this time remained a constant size and brightness. At this point, I determined I wasn’t going to take my eyes off it except to blink. I patiently observed this object sit motionless, 30° off the horizon for about 90 seconds and then fade out of view over 3-5 seconds as if turning down a light source using a dimming switch. I must’ve stayed in that field for another 10 minutes, scanning the horizon and looking for any movement, but saw nothing. So I resumed my walk back to my house about 15 minutes away. The only reason why I am reporting what I saw is that I have lots of experience as an aviator and this object behaved like nothing I had ever witnessed. Had it only popped into view once and disappeared, I would’ve dismiss this as an aircraft. But to watch it sit motionlessly, disappear, move unobserved across the horizon, then reappear only to sit motionless again was very strange. I have run through this scenario several times and every logical explanation simply returns with questions on the strange flight characteristics of this object. It most likely was an aircraft, but I just can’t explain how it behaved. There are plenty of little airfields locally and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is about hour’s drive from this area. I consider that this may be a fighter jet maneuvering on the horizon but we hear those jets all the time. This object was absolutely silent. Another strange thing was that I had no desire to pull out my phone and record this. It’s strange to me because recording seemed to not even be an option. It was like I didn’t even remember I had a phone on me. Maybe I was task saturated with observing this object and fleshing out what it could be?
September 1, 2023 · 9:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Morganton, NC at Brown Mountain Overlook, NC
This object had no sound and if I had to guess, I would place it at 10,000 feet. It looked more of a see through rectangular object with windows rather than a solid mass and it was green in color (the color of a star pointer green). It came in from the Nortwest and was flying due east. It seemed to glide with ease and no engine.
August 31, 2023 · 9:22 PM · FLASH
Rockfish, NC
My brother and I witnessed a small but extremely bright flash of light occuring overhead every thirteen seconds around 9:22 pm on August 13, 2023. The flash had no visible cause and occurred at different locations in the sky moving slowly south. It did not appear to be moving in a straight line and no vehicle of any kind was visable.. At the same time, we were able to see airplanes with flashing lights moving across the night sky. We could not follow whatever it was, but had to simply wait for it to flash to know it's location. It did not appear to be a satellite, plane, or military flare. It was a clear night with stars visible and a really bright moon.
August 28, 2023 · 9:31 PM · DISK
Mt Pleasant, NC
I went outside to get some air, I looked up directly over my head and was watching a plane fly over and all of a sudden these 3 Disc shaped craft came flying up on the plane and seemed like they were chasing it, but when they got close, 2 of them kept going and one hung back and seemed to kind of circle the plane one time and then took off and caught back up with the other 2! They seemed like they were racing each other, they would drift towards each other and then separate! This all happened in less than 5 sec! I could easily identify the plane ! It had blinking lights on tale and wings, the other 3 did not to seem to have any lights at all, but were putting off some kind of glowing light! Could have been slightly still lit by the sun Maybe not real sure! I just know 100% what I saw, and they were not planes! Moving faster than anything I've ever seen, I have watched satellites fly over and I pretty much know there speed, these things were not satellites, I could tell they were or had been messing around with that plane! I really wish I could talk to the Pilots of that plane! They were so close to the plane, the Pilots had to have seen them go Screaming by! And I know these were not jets! Jets can't move the way these things were moving! That one that slowed down almost came to a complete stop and then changed directions several times circling that plane!
August 25, 2023 · 12:01 AM · SPHERE
Mooresville, NC
Let the dog out approximately at midnight. The "moon" was so bright it appeared to be a harvest moon, but the color was so bright and reddish in color. There was no sound. Moon appeared to be stationary above the lake. The shape was not fully rounded - more half to crescent, yet 3-D. Watched it for about a minuted, then took a picture to share with my family. Picture was taken from inside a screened in porch due to elevation when attempted to take picture outside that area. Returned inside, thinking it was just a pretty moon. Asked my adult son to look at the "moon" that it was really bright. When he went out, he could not see anything. I returned outside and could no longer see anything. I looked up moon rise and set times and it did not appear to correlate with this sighting.
August 11, 2023 · 2:00 PM · LIGHT
Union Grove, NC
They also would dim out regularly, and reappear like a dimmable bulb, but they would be in a different pattern, sometime close together, sometime a few degrees apart. First on Tuesday and then tonight. Same stretch of road, 2 or 3 am. I had to exit off I 77 and take my semi to the shop around the Jonesville/Boonville area. And on my way home I stopped at a couple places that face north on highway 67 east, to see if I could get a video, but no luck. I will report again when I run this route again.
August 9, 2023 · 1:15 AM · SPHERE
Mayodan, NC
All witnesses observed multiple orbs of light that seemed to move in the same direction and disappear and then reappear in the original spot they first appeared. During this the some orbs would get brighter and dimmer. At times it appeared that orbs of light would spawn from other orbs. This incident was observed by myself and 4 other police officers and 1 citizen.
August 8, 2023 · 9:44 PM · CIRCLE
Wrightsville, NC
all lights were orange
August 8, 2023 · 8:19 AM · CIGAR
Henderson, NC
At 8:19 am on August 8th 2023 I had stepped out side on my front porch and looked up to see the clouds as a storm is approaching and I seen what appeared to be a flying object shaped like a pill/cigar in the air, no fuel streams behind the object and no propeller sounds, it was extremely quiet, heading North East 26.4 degrees NE Carolina Ave crossing over E Montgomery street in Henderson NC. Disappeared within seconds.
August 6, 2023 · 10:30 AM · DIAMOND
New Bern, NC
Three orb to diamond shaped objects that did not appear to be airplanes moving at a slow speed occasionally at rest…one object moved northeast and the other two moved southwest at one point almost touching. They seemed to go at a speed similar to airplanes but didn’t quite match the shape, one object appeared to blink slightly…not saying they were anything unusual just not entirely sure what they were.
August 6, 2023 · 1:48 AM · FIREBALL
Wilmington, NC
Just before 2am on 8/6/2023 I spotted 9 objects in the sky to the Northeast of Wilmington NC. I first spotted two objects, one trailing the other from West to East. The speed of the objects made me think they may have been some types of Satellites as their speed matched other known Satellites and the ISS track speeds. The appearance seemed to suggest one of two things, either sunlight reflection off of a Satellite solar panel or the emission of thruster gases. The objects were moving too slow to be Meteors. Upon checking my security camera playback, I noticed that there were multiple objects traveling in the same general direction (West to East) that I had not seen before or after the two objects I saw with my own eyes. Some of those objects were traveling across the path of the previous objects (going South to North). They were in the same general location in the sky looking Northeast from my location. I have previously seen multiple similar events over the last year and made an attempt to validate these objects with known Satellites but no data matched the events. The brief flash of light on these objects had a fade-in/out effect and an average duration of 5 to 7 seconds. They never maneuvered, moved only in a straight line. I have also seen these object events towards the North-West direction and some have recorded seeing these types of events off the coast (over the ocean) in broad daylight over the last several months. The objects emitted no sounds or sonic booms. Am unable to upload the event video due to the file size. Here is a link to my video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFEnJToRlBQ [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
August 5, 2023 · 9:11 PM · FIREBALL
Mayodan, NC
2 orb’s floating silent that looks like balls of fire 100 feet above my home.4 live photographs were taken which clearly shows hundreds of extraterrestrials floating around the objects. 3 seconds of video on each photo was recorded, body movements changed from picture to picture.This makes my 38th encounter in 3 years, photographed all encounters with extraterrestrials in the majority of the pictures taken.
August 5, 2023 · 9:07 PM · CIRCLE
IdentifiedAsheville, NC
You will notice in the picture that the object went from one side of the street lying to the other on the left, it seem to move faster than light, as there is an orb behind it and on the right it’s as if it sits still, it’s like a green bottom light so bright it has an aura around it [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Certain]
August 5, 2023 · 4:43 PM · CIRCLE
Probable conventionalGreensboro, NC
It was just sitting there. I was coming off of 840 on 240 taking the wendover west exit [NUFORC annotation: Blimp - Probable]
August 3, 2023 · 6:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Mill Creek (Newport), NC
I was in Mill Creek, NC, not far from the fire station and I stopped in the road because I was about to take a left turn onto a long driveway. As I turned my head to look towards the driveway I was shocked to see a very large and thick rectangular object hovering directly over the driveway in-between the trees on either side of the path. The object was a solid black color but had pairs of small round lights on its top both red and blue. The lights had a very soft appearance that grabbed my attention, especially the light blue light. They appeared grouped together side by side on each side of the top of the craft. The back bottom area had larger white lights. The top of the object had a sharp angular structure that lended itself to one end of a parallelogram. It just hovered there for what felt like a few minutes. What kills me is that I had forgotten to charge my phone at work that day and it had 1% AND had flown into the floorboard as I was driving before I arrived in Mill Creek. I was shocked, in disbelief and I just kept saying, "What the #@$# is that!?" to myself audibly. I stayed stopped in the middle of the road and stared at it. Then it very effortlessly just began to glide through the air down the driveway, through the side yard, back yard and over the trees of the woods in the back, until it disappeared just above the treeline. There was no sound. No motion such as propellers. And it was like a giant brick just hovering in the air, black and with slanted upper walls. It fascinated me that a shape like that could even fly at all. Sitting there watching it, I was quite anxious as to what might happen next, but it just went away. If it were to have arrived in that location from the direction it was headed, it would have come from over Newport River. I have never been one to believe in aliens but this experience has completely changed what I believe is possible. I recently had another experience in the same area and my daughter saw it too. It was a different experience and I will report it here.
August 1, 2023 · 9:09 PM · LIGHT
Cary, NC
Light did not have a flashing beacon like planes and helicopters.
August 1, 2023 · 9:04 PM · UNKNOWN
Harrisburg, NC
I began to see the object/light from about a mile away. It had the brightness of a 100-watt light bulb at 300 feet away. It passed overhead at a steady speed, in a straight line. No blinking, no sound. A single white light. I watched it until it went out of sight, maybe 2 miles east of my home. I was on the back deck tossing the ball to one of my dogs when the event occurred. There were a few light wispy clouds overhead. Several planes went by while I sat for 30 minutes, and they all went out of sight at moments because they were above the few clouds.
August 1, 2023 · 8:46 PM · CHANGING
Carolina Beach, NC
1 objects and then 3 objects and then it went back into one object. me and my 3 friends were taking pictures and wondering what it was so we immediately left the beach area
July 28, 2023 · 5:48 PM · OVAL
Wake Forrest, NC
A clear day facing North East standing outside my car at the park grabbing my camera to go walking like always I look up and there's something that's bright white and from a distance I was gonna say a star but it was still daylight it kind of looked more oval shaped so I knew it wasn't a plane or satellite because it just hovered in the same spot, adjusted my camera to zoom in snapped a photo told my buddy to get out the car and he couldn't see it with his own eyes (he might have bad eye sight we don't know), I watched it with my eyes for a second trying to point it to him, but then I tried to fire off a second and third shot or get video, but then from visible eyesight you no longer could see it so I just snapped the sky in relation to where I was to paint a better picture of the location and height in these photos of the sky after, you can see in the top right still something is there where the craft was. Photos taken on a cannon powershot sx410 is, settings used ISO 1600, 16:9, auto focus was on, if it stayed longer definitely would have changed settings for more shots.
July 26, 2023 · 8:21 PM · UNKNOWN
Charlotte, NC
Close up shows What appears to be three exhaust pipes. No flights on Flightradar24.
July 24, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Hubert, NC
I saw a very strange thing on the night of 24 Jul 2023 at 2130. I was laying in bed and just happened to open my eyes and saw a red "star" in the sky that was very bright. I instantly thought it was Mars and just looked at it for a second or two before I realized that it was moving towards the South. As I watched it move, it grew in size to about the size of the Moon and I decided to wake up my wife. I asked her what it was and she immediately said, "that is the Moon." I pointed out that the Moon was higher up and while I showing her the Moon, the object split into a bunch of red "stars" and grew to about the size of the Sun when it is on the horizon. There were probably 15 or 20 stars all arranged in a circle. They then expanded outward slightly and intensified their illumination and then vanished. The lights seemed to be at an altitude of about 10,000 feet. The whole event lasted about 30 seconds, so I didn't have time to get a camera or go outside. It was the craziest thing that my wife and I have ever seen. Somebody said it could have been StarLink, but these were red lights and not in a straight line. They made a semetrical circle with all of the lights evenly spaced. A coworker told me that there was a Facebook post asking if anyone saw the red lights the night before, but he didn't read it and couldn't give me the details. I don't have Facebook, but I know a lot of people do. Any insight would be awesome. Thank you.
July 22, 2023 · 3:30 PM · SPHERE
Hobucken, NC
Saw a silver (shiny) sphere/ orb moving at very high speed at about 75 feet of altitude over the waters of Bay River heading towards the Pamlico Sound. No sound, very fast, straight line level flight towards the Pamlico sound. Moving from the NW to the SE.