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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
August 5, 2019 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Whitsett, NC
I was watching the night sky. Thin, high clouds were racing by against a full moon. Suddenly, the thin ribbons were replaced by thicker, dark clouds. A circle roughly formed, with ribbons of bright blue and silver rippling from the center out to the rim. The disc slowly began to rotate, about as a fast as a radome on an AWACS aircraft. I watched until it suddenly dissolved, then the thin clouds reappeared. I'm a former police officer and US Army veteran. I'm familiar with many types of aircraft including helicopters but I've never seen anything like this.
August 5, 2019 · 9:35 AM · LIGHT
Trinity, NC
Me and My Brother Seen a Light just hovering over Head Then it started to move then it Disappeared then came the sky watchers (airplanes) and sprayed the sky like they always do to make a Fog
August 3, 2019 · 5:30 PM · OTHER
Wilmington, NC
Dear NUFORC, First and foremost, I would like to say "thank you" for the work that you do. It was a lovely, clear Saturday and I was home after directing morning music rehearsals at a local church. I was elated because the early evening was beatific in its summer breeze. Coming home to perfect summer weather was nice, as our church building has a cold-and-spooky vibe that leaves me drained. I was standing up on my porch, just enjoying the blue sky while my friend sat down to check her texts, when I suddenly saw something 25-50 ft overhead - something that I still cannot explain, as I have found little to no evidence. It was a highly reflective, metallic, glittery, shapeless poof of sparks that resembled blinking stars or fireworks. The blob was about 5 ft in length, had many sparks, appeared out of thin air and disappeared the same way. Toward the end of its appearance, the sparks seemed to coordinate with one another to make a formation that reminded me of a flock of birds flying very high overhead, at sunset. I can definitely confirm that this was not that. This was especially strange to me, and reminded me that I have a friend who has been researching UFO's for many years, and that she has found that they like to hide by imitating their environment. Back to the event, I was slack-jawed by what I was seeing, yet immediately alarmed my friend who was not able to look up from her screen to see the 2-5 second event. I would like to add that we were soberly sharing food, and that I don't suffer from any type of hallucinations. Finally, I was not scared at all by the proximity of this sighting...just blown away.
August 2, 2019 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Fuquay Varina, NC
Rainy night. Saw a burnt orange light flickering through the tree in our back yard. Went outside and this light appeared to be moving very slowly above the city. Burnt orange almost red. It stopped then climbing upward disappeared into clouds. Did this three times.
July 29, 2019 · 7:00 PM
Hickory, NC
Source of the report provides no information. PD
July 25, 2019 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Surf City, NC
Reddish orange orbs appearing several miles off coast and at least 2 thousand feet above sea and higher. Sometimes one light would appear then a pair side by side similar to the December 2018 sighting in outer banks. Lights appeared intermittently for about an hour.
July 25, 2019 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
North Topsail Beach, NC
Lights appeared in the sky off the coast of Topsail Beach. They were reddish in color. They would appear every 10 minutes or so (irregularly) in varying directions along the coast. Sometimes they were single points, sometimes they appeared as two closely adjacent points of light. They are stationary, last for a few moments, then fade. The lights appeared one at a time usually, but the final event witnessed involved four lights appearing simultaneously in different directions off the coast. During this last event, two were single lights, two were doublets. This appears to be a similar phenomenon to that reported here’s: https://www.wbtv.com/2018/12/04/ufo-strange-video-lights-capture-off-north-carolina-coast/ They did not behave or look light flares. It should be noted that this location is very near to Camp Legeune.
July 25, 2019 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Topsail Beach, NC
Saw 2 red lights next to each other about 5 miles away. Paired lights would dim down then re-appear at a different location in height and left to right. This happened many times and the 2 lights (sometimes only one) were always at different locations in the sky appearing for maybe 7-10 seconds at a time. After a few hours of random locations, 5 pairs of lights lit up across the sky (perfectly synchronized on and off) for several seconds then they all faded out and I never saw them again for the rest of the night. The lights looked exactly like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=GkUs79K940E except they appeared more red in color. When we saw the lights, the internet connection went away. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 25, 2019 · 7:00 PM · FORMATION
Marion, NC
Observed 3 objects in a triangular formation at high altitude ie: 30-40K ft. which remained stationary for approximately 10 minutes in the NW evening sky. There was no noise and no con-trail. The objects did not move. After observing for approximately 10 minutes, 2 of the objects disappeared, one remained. Shortly afterwards the one remaining object began to move slowly in a NW direction at the same high altitude and suddenly disappeared.
July 25, 2019 · 9:00 AM · CIGAR
Raleigh, NC
I saw this white short cigar shaped object moving at a steady speed across the clear sky and at one point the morning sun reflected off of it and it was very bright. Then I went to take a picture with my phone and I couldn’t spot it anymore when It should have still been in sight. There was no sound either. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 24, 2019 · 11:45 PM · LIGHT
Gastonia, NC
I could not follow it because the light or fire dispeared. Hard to explain but it wasn’t normal . Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 22, 2019 · 4:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Aurora, NC
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 20, 2019 · 12:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Cornelius, NC
On July 20th at 12:30AM, I was awakened by flashing circular lights in my bedroom. I went to the window and looked in the sky and it was lit up brightly in one area over Lake Norman. I was able to take 2 pictures and 1 video. When I videoed the sight, the lights pulsated every 2 seconds for a period of 35 minutes in the same spot. Very unusual sighting. I was told by a local newspaper reporter that a pilot has also reported the same type of sighting 2 hours earlier about 25 miles away from my location.
July 19, 2019 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Charlotte, NC
Friday, July 19, 2019 - At 9:50 PM EST, I was in the swimming pool at Post Ballantyne, when I saw a bright object, like a star (but three times bigger) or a satellite (four times bigger), flying north at about 15,000/20,000 feet. I am always fascinated and very interested in flying objects, and I know that this was not a star, not a shooting star, not an airplane, not a drone and not a helicopter. There was no engine sound. A minute later a saw a second one, and then a third one, and a fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh. Two minutes later I saw ten more, and ten more and then ten more. Three minutes later I saw twenty more, and twenty more, and twenty more. They were not flying in formation, rather randomly. There were three other people with me in the pool, a man, a woman, and a child. I asked them if they could see what I was seeing and they were totally surprised to see the flying objects. We tried to take photographs with our phones, but they were too smal! l for the cameras. The objects were flying in direction south to north, slightly west (5 degrees) from where we were. They kept coming for the next 20 minutes. Between 10:00 and 10:10 PM was the largest number of objects flying at one time. Always flying at the same altitude, same direction, and same speed. Then they started to decrees (contrary as they had started) until I saw the last one at about 10:20 PM. I am a pilot and a keen observer of the sky, and I do not believe in UFOS, BUT THIS WAS SOMETHING very fascinating that I had never seen before. Quite intriguing and fascinating. I need to investigate this event more and try to find a logical explanation, but if I do not find an explanation I feel I might become a believer in UFOS.
July 17, 2019 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Asheville, NC
I saw a round sphere pop out of a low lying cloud then slightly adjust direction and go back into the cloud.
July 12, 2019 · 3:30 AM · OTHER
Charlotte, NC
At approximately 3:30 a.m. EST while on work break in South Charlotte I heard a strange whooshing sound for about 5 minutes, I looked up and did not initially see anything. The sound continued, but did not get louder nor distant, then I saw a single red blinking light followed by 3 very bright and vibrant white lights (brighter than those that come from Xenon gas bulbs) that flashed one at a time making a line pattern in a different direction than the red light, making it appear as if the object was changing course, however, when the red light would re-appear, it was at the front of the direction the object was moving, and the white lights were angled off to the side. . If all those lights were to be illuminated at once, it would have made an “L” shape. I see all types of commercial and military air craft here at night especially being in the flight pattern of the airport, I have also seen weather balloons, satellites (no blinking to their lights) and the international space station fly over. None of which had the sound or light patterns I experienced tonight. The strangest part of this experience was that when my eyes focused on those lights as it was directly above my head, the sound ceased. Even as the object passed, and what you would usually hear from the rear of a craft as it passes by, there was complete silence as I watched it move overhead then eventually out of sight. I have to add, I am a total skeptic and I have tried for hours to make logic of this experience, but the more I try, the more questions I have. Most importantly, if it were a military type jet propulsion aircraft the sound is more like a constant distant thunder (even when it is very high in the sky) that gets louder as it gets closer, then the sound gradually fades. This was not at all like anything I have ever heard…the sound was more like the noise an MRI machine makes at top speed. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 11, 2019 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Nags Head, NC
There was 2 lights in the sky that duplicated into 4 and then duplicated in six and then dissipated into nothing. The lights were white and made into a rectangular shape. It made no noise and it happened within 5-7 seconds.
July 11, 2019 · 12:00 AM · CIGAR
Reidsville, NC
There's normally one really bright one and the rest are small not as bright and they blink sometimes they blink red or white but they've actually been side by side with me going down the road while I'm in my car they go the same speed as me when I stop based off when I turned a turn I know it sounds crazy but I can prove it cuz they do it every night other than the nights when it's cloudy and raining I'm not sure what they are but I know that I see them every night and last night one shot from the back of my car I'm driving down the road and it shot over my car towards the right and it was kind of saucer-shaped you know like a puffed tortilla when you cook it and it puffs up and it had a blue fish white light outlining the middle of it like around it and then it just went out and I couldn't see it anymore I know the story sounds crazy but I can prove it like I said it happens every night.
July 2, 2019 · 10:03 PM · TRIANGLE
Mebane, NC
At 22:03 tonight, I was taking one of my three dogs out for one last time before retiring to bed. I looked up at the sky above me. I saw a triangular shapped craft flying overhead. It was about 20,000 feet in altitude. It had a flashing red light in the middle and two solid white lights at each point at the rear. The white lights created a reflection off the bottom of the craft. It was clearly a shinny black metallic surface. It was being escorted by two fighter jets. The jets had the standard FAA regulation lights. The jet to the left was at a higher altitude than the craft while the jet to the right was at the same altitude as the craft. They were flying due south. The craft was silent. The only noise came from the jets escorting it. I ran to the back door and shouted to my wife to come out. She came out and witnessed the craft as well. We took pictures but our cell phone did not capture anything other than the indistinguishable lights. We watched it as i! t flew beyond our field of vision toward the south. At arm's length, the craft was approximately 2 inches in length. In comparison, the jets were about a quarter of an inch. Interesting night here in NC.
July 1, 2019 · 10:32 PM · CIGAR
Kill Devil Hills, NC
This was taken from a balcony on the beach front at Kill Devil Hills North Carolina. This craft was slow moving but was able to vertically clime at 90 degrees at speeds that were unimaginable, almost as if it teleported. The object glowed a pale green and emitted no noise. At one point near the end of the sighting an unidentified black helicopter approached from over the water and began following the light. It then proceeded to vertically climb and disappeared. The helicopter proceeded to pull back and leave the area upon it climbing. Animals nearby also were on edge and or barking during this event.
June 30, 2019 · 8:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Oak Island, NC
We see nothing in the video that we believe is suggestive of the presence of a UFO. PD
June 28, 2019 · 11:58 PM · LIGHT
Greensboro, NC
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no little contact information. PD
June 28, 2019 · 4:00 AM · FORMATION
Cary, NC
Star gazing early in the morning Saturday 4AM the 29th of june. It was still dark when 6 oblong oval craft in formation silently flew right over my house very fast. Quick moving metalic craft about 2000 feet in the air put off a dull glow of silver lined up in a slant formation 6 in a row .
June 28, 2019 · 1:38 AM · LIGHT
Kannapolis, NC
Video captured drone like object 7 times tough out the night. First video starts at 1:38 and last video is at 5:30 AM. The object appeared to be interested in the IR lights on my camera, but unlike a drone the object did not disturb the near by shrubs at all like a drone would from its fan blades. The object also appears to be flying at a 5 degree tilt in a consistent pattern with 4 lights across the horizontal surface of the object.