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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
March 25, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Pleasant Garden, NC
I noticed a light moving from my window and I started to watch it. I saw the object move in an up and down motion and occasionally side to side. I tried to get video and I did capture it although it was too far away to make it out clearly. Two airplanes flew by with red lights underneath and when they got near the area in the sky where this object was, the light dimmed and it stood completely still in the sky. No movement at all. Once the airplanes were out of sight, the craft began to move up and down again. The video does not capture what I saw with my naked eye but I definitely saw it.
March 24, 2020 · 7:58 PM · CIRCLE
Greensboro, NC
It was a circle like a trash can lid but bigger and had bright yellow light touching the ground
March 20, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Rose Hill, NC
Bright light that's been in the same area of the sky when there is no cloud overcast. We first spotted it on the 20th of March. It's now the 9th of April and it's still there. From the pictures that we zoomed in on it has either a diamond or octagon looking shape. We also took video but it was hard to capture it with the light pollution from the houses.The second time I saw it I called the police they laughed it off and said "It was kids probably playing with a drone". I stood on the porch and said out loud "I'm calling the police" and it disappeared. So when they arrived there was nothing to see. But drones don't hold a steady position and then disappear out of the sky after a few hours. All I know is it's still in the sky every clear night. Some said it might be a satellite but I've not known satellite's to come that low.
March 12, 2020 · 11:30 PM · FIREBALL
Red Springs, NC
So I’m on my nightly walk like I always take and up in the sky I see two balls of Fire fly across the sky and disappear behind the clouds. They were moving too slow to be shooting stars and they had no flashing hazard beacons so they were no aircraft
March 12, 2020 · 12:00 AM · DISK
Boone, NC
I have seen a saucer like disk bronse and silver in color every day for three weeks now and it also seems to be able to create clouds as well as hide behind them. The space craft seems as if it is trying to communicate with me.
March 9, 2020 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
Wilmington, NC
I am former military and am fully aware of what military aircraft would look like flying against a night sky and this was just not any man made aircraft in my opinion.
March 8, 2020 · 9:00 PM
Charlotte, NC
Double or triple bright lights, not moving, just side by side/ clustered for several minutes
March 2, 2020 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Maiden, NC
For the past several weeks, beginning in mid February, almost every night around sunset until approximately 22:00 hours there is a spherical light that rises and moves erratically until it reaches a certain point/altitude and stops. It then moves occasionally, sometimes quickly but with a jerky or erratic movement. It remains in the sky for approximately 2-3 hours and then moves or descends. At first I thought it was a drone and then possibly a weather balloon. It appears in the North West sky almost nightly. We have also seen an identical craft in the North sky that appears around a half hour after the first, but then disappears from our view. I have looked for reasonable explanations, but can’t find any. We can’t be the only people seeing this because it’s been happening for several weeks. It’s in the direct path of aircraft coming to the Charlotte Douglas Airport, but appears to be either much higher or much lower altitude. It appears to be much lower. I attempted filming it, but don’t have the right equipment. I’m going to attempt again as it is still appearing.
March 1, 2020 · 5:31 AM · FORMATION
Asheville, NC
formation appeared from no where. Clear skies. Jetting out from darkness and in formation, solid light with no blinking. Formations of 7 to eight and shortly after 2, then 7 and 1 and back to 7 or eight. Vanishing shortly after. More followed. This lasted approximately 12 minutes.
February 28, 2020 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
North Myrtle Beach, NC
We saw four orange lights several miles from the seashore about at approximately 1,500 feet altitude. My friend saw four in a circular pattern. He said look and I saw three in a triangular pattern. The lights were quite large in diameter. It lasted several seconds then disappeared at the same time.
February 28, 2020 · 4:02 PM · EGG
Holly Springs, NC
Driving west after picking children up from school I see a white egg shaped object in the sky . I’m driving and slow down to almost a stop. I think maybe a bird or plane . It flies north then stops then north again then west then disappears. I thought maybe sun was hitting a plane wrong but it was egg shaped and not a ballon . It was flying then stops for a few seconds then flies then disappears . I did not alarm my kids . It was close to Shearon Harris Nuclear power plant maybe 10 miles of so away . Just disappeared , I once I got home I looked again toward the north and west , really all over the sky but never saw anything else .
February 27, 2020 · 5:25 AM · LIGHT
Midland, NC
These looked like a "normal satellite" light (no blinking) traveling from N to SE. They were in a perfect straight line, evenly spaced and kept moving once they appeared in northern sky and moving until out of sight in southeast sky. It was perfectly clear (no clouds) and still night sky at 5:25am on February 27, 2020. I counted up to 35 and they kept appearing as I talked (and lost count) with my daughter. I called my wife out to witness it and also call my daughter living about 3 hours away of which she was able to go outside and witness the same as we talked on the phone.
February 23, 2020 · 1:14 PM · CIRCLE
Hillsborough, NC
At 1314hrs until 1317 hrs on the date provided I saw 5 circular lights in straight formation with 2 lights directly under the 5. I reported this event to the local authorities and asked them to call me back because I have never seen or reported anything like this before. The lights lasted for 3 minutes and suddenly disappeared. They made no noise or blink, they just all disappeared at once. I asked the authorities to check air traffic with navigation towers. There’s multiple airports in the area. The lights never blinked or changed colors they just disappeared all at the same time. I also asked them to ask the tracking stations if there were any transponder signals. Please let me know if you find out anything about this event.
February 17, 2020 · 8:14 PM · FIREBALL
High Point, NC
(Sorry for submitting this twice, I realized I set the date to today, and not Monday, on accident.) I was arriving to my step fathers house at around 9 PM EST, and I looked up to the sky above his house, which overlooks some semi-tall trees and leades into a lake. When I looked above, I saw a flash of light that stayed in the air for a good few seconds. The light descended slowly, much larger than a plane and more slowly than that, until it disappeared behind the house. My mother was with me, but she didn't see it, as she was taking bags out of the car. It was large, about the size of the moon, but much brighter. As it descended behind the trees I tried to run around to the back, but it was already gone. The shape was nearly perfectly circular, but I describe it as a fireball because of the hazy outside of bright blue along with the white center.
February 13, 2020 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Winston-Salem, NC
I saw a very bright orange/red/pinkish sphere to the northeast of my house. At first, I thought it was a planet until I realized it was way outside the ecliptic, and then I thought I needed to check what star could possible be that bright. I looked away for a moment to check on my dog and when I looked back, I thought it was gone until it reappeared and then seemed to flicker/spark and was gone. It was not moving so it was definitely not a meteor; however, the flickering out was very similar to the way a meteor breaks apart, but in this case, in a stationary position. As an object in the atmosphere it would have been low enough that it was some distance away. It never changed position. My wife an I saw three of these several years ago and they had the same color which I can never quite decide if its reddish, orangish or pinkish.
February 11, 2020 · 6:00 AM · SPHERE
Snow Hill, NC
Out looking at the moon with friend, sun rises in East faint glow of daylight, full moon beginning to set west, few high level clouds but faint, looked up at moon and noticed, a row of high speed objects in very upper atmosphere or low orbit, appeared as dots, or about like stars, moving at a very high rate of speed spaced almost identically apart first 6 crossed entire sky in less than 30 secs, next row of lights flowed in same direction but not in the same line. First thought it was satellite but the sheer number and closeness together and speed was not like satellites I've seen before.
February 10, 2020 · 5:29 AM · LIGHT
Raleigh, NC
It was 5:29 am and I looked up at the night sky. I saw one white dot moving across the sky. It was moving very fast. It stayed solid and then flickered a little bit. It then turned back solid. Another object moved right behind it at the same speed. There were about ten objects in one line moving at the same speed to the same place. There was no line connecting them. There was then a break in the objects and a less bright light came slower from another direction following them. Then more of the bright objects came by. T his was repeated about 4-5 times. They were all white and very bright. They looked like stars or satellites. However, I could not make out a distinct shape.
February 4, 2020 · 6:00 PM · CHANGING
Maiden, NC
At approximately 6pm, I saw three lights In a line (white/blue) Completely stationary. Another light descended from the center and started moving left. At this point I was stopped in the middle of the road and two cars came behind me so I had to turn left onto the road that I live on. In the time that it took me to turn onto my road I looked backed and it had changed into a “V” formation and there was now 5 lights. Still completely stationary, I watched them until I lost sight. As soon as I got home I tried to get my drone up to get a better look but I couldn’t get it to connect to the camera. Which has NEVER happened before.
January 28, 2020 · 9:45 AM · EGG
Asheville, NC
Jan. 28th 2020 I drove into the golds gym parking lot because i was looking and taking pictures of the snow that fell on the black mountains. I took multiple pictures from various vantage points within the same area of the mountain range that was visible after I parked the car and held my arm out of the window to get a better shot, I took multiple pictures in succession.Later planning to review them and find the best picture . I did not see this object when taking the pictures. I was holding my arm out of the car window because the front windshield is cracked and i didnt want those in the pictures . Later in the evening, I was scrolling through the pictures I had taken and noticed a black dot that i didn't see when taking them .I realized that the dot was no where in the other pictures that were taken merely seconds behind the previous ones. I realized that the black dot is not normal . The skies were clear no precipitation at all. The span of the mountain range I was taking pictures of is about 15 miles so any known aircraft would have shown up in a different picture but it did not .it was there then it was gone . While sitting there taking pictures over the course of 2 or 3 minutes i didn't witness any aircraft in the sky ,I didn't even notice this until I reviewed them later. I do not know how any craft we are familiar with would be there one second and gone the next.
January 21, 2020 · 4:00 PM · DISK
Siler City, NC
I proceeded to get out of my car I was going to try to take a picture of The Craft that I seen my phone had 80% and it completely powered off I had good service and I had 80% on my phone and after I try to take a picture of it it completely vanished there's no way I could have been a weather balloon could be a airplane a jet helicopter it had no sound with it so big I'm surprised the siler city or other airports didn't pick it up on radar or or militiary either on one else was around I do do drugs or drink at all this craft was out of this word nothing like on tv when I was trying thread w! as was on craft it getting hard to read like I shouldn't seen thos at all
January 21, 2020 · 4:00 PM · DISK
Siler city, NC
I was driving down Epps Clark Road before coming to a stop sign at silk hope lindley Mill Road in Siler City North Carolina at approximately at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday January 21st 2020 I seen a metallic and silver objects in the air less than 1500 ft it was big it was enormous it looked exactly like two plates over each other and it had metallic and silver and he had writting on itthat I never seen before in my life I proceeded to get out of my car I was going to try to take a picture of The Craft that I seen my phone had 80% and it completely powered off I had good service and I had 80% on my phone and after I try to take a picture of it it completely vanished there's no way I could have been a weather balloon could be a airplane a jet helicopter it had no sound with it so big I'm surprised the siler city or other airports didnt pick it up on radar or or militiary either on one else was around I do do drugs or drink at all this craft was out of this word nothing like on tv when I was trying thre! ad was was on craft it getting hard to read like I shouldn't seen thos at all
January 18, 2020 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Wilmington, NC
Watched white circle come across the sky from west to east twice as fast as a jet. As it passed over it slowly went dim and disappeared. No sound. Thought it might have been space station but way to low. Did not burn up light shooting star. Again slowly dimmed its light.
January 17, 2020 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Creedmoor/ Wake Forest, NC
To far to see shape. Close enough to see it wasn’t an airplane. Looked like a star but stars don’t shake back and forth the way this was. Was like when you use that laser toy that you point to the wall and have your cat chase around. One second it’s still, then in a instant it switches position. Very high in the sky. Like if they were observing or simply kicking back. Waved hand to it, stopped its jiggling back and forth immediately. Don’t know if it saw me but it reacts to signals of attention. Disappears instantly. The “star” is no longer there. Color seemed to be white, and a tint of reddish. Hard to believe but definitely not a plane, cause a few planes pass by almost every time I go to this location, and you can definitely tell the difference.
January 17, 2020 · 1:00 AM · OVAL
Emerald Isle, NC
At approximately 0100 hrs, Jan 17, 2020 I observed a dark amber/orange orb hovering approximately 200-300 ft off the surface of the ocean surface. Orb would levitate, then move slowly downward to horizon, then accelerate straight up at high rate of speed. At one point the orb shot straight up, then straight down, then upwards again. Through binoculars, I could see 5 individual bright lights inside the main orb. This activity lasted at least 2 hrs, then orb accelerated upward and left. Hover time (without moving) over the ocean would sometimes last 10 mins. Movement aeemed to be in 90° trajectories.