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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
November 20, 2018 · 6:29 AM · LIGHT
Wallace, NC
Two bright lights almost connected right before sunrise. Not a plane. Stayed still in the sky at sunrise until lost sight while driving.
November 17, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Franklin, NC
While looking to the northeast on a clear night we saw a small, white light which we at first thought was a stair. We then observed that it was moving in circles and erratically while staying in basically the same location. There was no wind and nothing, i.e. trees, between us and the object. We took several videos on our phones.
November 15, 2018 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Greensboro, NC
On November 2018 I witnessed the second observation of a craft on approach to GSO/ RW 32 exactly a week later. I was on the off ramp getting onto I-840 and with disbelief I saw the same craft. The Craft had a white and Red Identification this time with no blinking NAV lights that should be required in class B airspace. It went over my car at basically the exact spot I had witness the first encounter. It had an invisible Fuselage that would reflect light in a strange pattern. I was the only car on the highway so my lights couldn’t have had that reaction to it. It was about 300 feet again over my car and I stopped to see the craft. This time it turned on 3 white lights across the middle and winged section in a horizontal pattern. They were not bright enough to be landing lights and they were facing the wrong diction for landing. The craft turned to what appeared to be 45 degree angle just feet from landing and then disappeared. I called the tower and! again and of course… no knowledge of a landing. I told him about another time that I called in to report the same craft and he told me it could have been an airplane that had NAV light problems. Well, I know I witnessed the same craft exactly one week apart at the same moment and that explanation doesn’t work.
November 8, 2018 · 7:30 PM · DIAMOND
Apex (physically in Cary), NC
On November 8, 2018, at approximately 7:30pm, we were walking our dogs down our street and saw a very large (larger than our house), squished-diamond shaped, black aircraft, with red and green non-flashing lights, moving extremely slowly from left to right. It was just over the tree tops, but lower than the top of the radio tower, that was to its left. It slowed almost to a stop and turned to its left and went below the tree line. There was no obvious aircraft engine noise, but had a low hum to it. I was waiting to hear a crash and an explosion, but it never happened. My friend, who is a pilot, was with me. He said he had never seen anything like it. Our neighbor said she also saw it, but did not know what it was. What was remarkable was how large, quiet and slow moving it was.
November 8, 2018 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Midland, NC
I was driving home down a narrow country road with tall trees on each side and it was dark. I thought this red dot was initially a helicopter but it appeared suddenly and zipped quickly over the trees from N to S then right back across from S to N – too quick of movement for a helicopter. Then, immediately, a small red light appeared, not moving, centered above the road and just as quickly disappeared. Maybe a drone/prank? I can’t stop thinking about it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 8, 2018 · 6:30 PM · OTHER
Greensboro, NC
In November 2018 about 6:30 at night I witnessed a craft on approach into GSO airport RW 32 on my way home from work on the 840 loop exit off of I40. The craft caught my attention because of the lack of navigation lights in class B airspace. The only lights visible were two red lights one on top of the other. The craft flew over my head as I was driving. I rolled down my window and I heard no sound. The craft was about 300 feet above and as it was moving it would reflect as if light was being shined on the bottom portion but it was a pattern. It did seem to have wings but the under fuselage seemed to be almost invisible except for the strange reflection. I kept driving and looking for it to land but it veered off over West Market Street and disappeared. I immediately called the Tower to ask what the craft was and the staff member I spoke with said they had just changed shifts and he had no knowledge that a landing happened.
November 8, 2018 · 7:00 AM · CROSS
Cary/Apex, NC
Riding down Hwy 64 at Cary/Apex heading West. Small airplane size cross shaped with four arm like off the center, each were small light white and blue toned under each "arm" hovering over trees two different areas within 3 miles apart.
October 31, 2018 · 10:01 PM · CHEVRON
Morrisville, NC
Occurred while driving southeast on Hwy 54. Stopped and photographed the craft at this location using an iPhone 7. This craft was in close proximity to RDU International airport flying perpendicular to the main runways at a distance of approximately three nautical miles. My friend, who was in my car with me, immediately called Air Traffic Control at RDU to report the incident. The tower should have had a visual on the craft as well as on radar. The info was taken, but we have no information as to any observations made at the airport. UFO/UAV craft configuration: A flying wing with two white and one red light. The red light was in the center, with the two white lights at equal-distance at each end. The craft was moving away from us. We were tracking it from the rear. It was flying directly before us, above the road and on the same track. We could not see additional shape details. It basically looked like a straight line with three lights. It appeared to be flying very slowly. There was no discernible noise you would expect from an aircraft flying away from you. I want to stress, at the first sighting, it was not some distant blip far off in the sky. It appeared to be a very large, low flying plane at a close distance. Now, seeing aircraft constantly at RDU, everything from small commuter planes to Jumbo jets, I report the following — The craft was of immense size, frightfully immense, dwarfing anything I have ever seen. It is hard to evaluate the size accurately without a firm reference to distance. It did not have standard navigation red/white/green lights, nor landing lights. No strobes lights. No pulsing of its lights, just the three steady lights as previously mentioned. This is a high traffic take-off and landing pattern area. No conventional aircraft would be flying in this area without strobes, nav-lights and landing lights full on. It would be an FAA violation and a severe hazard unless it was in communication ATC and had clearance. The sighting was as follows: We were headed south on Airport Blvd and turned left onto Chapel Hill Rd/Hwy 54 in a southeast direction. I noticed what I momentarily thought were aircraft lights forward and above us at a close distance. I immediately realized it was not a conventional airplane and said to my friend, “That’s a UFO.” She scoffed, looking at the three lights and assumed it was three airplanes. She then realized, as I had, that this was a single craft and there was structure between the lights. She yelled to me to, “Pull over, pull over and take a picture!” I had to drive, watch this thing, and find a safe place to pull over. As you will see in the photo that I did manage to get, there were other cars on the road. This is not some deserted country lane in the middle of nowhere. She, in the excitement, was unable to find her phone buried in her backpack fast enough. And is now giving me grief that I didn’t put the phone in video mode. After I got the photo, we followed down the road trying to get to a more open view. This is an Eastern US road with trees on both sides and the leaves are still on. While she kept it in view for a short while, less than a minute, it was then lost in the trees and horizon. She immediately called RDU Air Traffic Control to report the sighting. At the time of this writing, the incident occurred six and one-half hours ago. About me: I am a licensed private pilot for many years. In years past, I had flown my airplane to/from RDU. I had a professional news reporting background.
October 31, 2018 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Raleigh, NC
Saw 3 lights moving in unison, slowly in the same direction over my neighborhood. It was heading West. 3 lights blinking one at a time from West to East. Light blinking repeated once a second in total for all 3 lights blinking in a loop - 1,2,3 - 1,2,3 No engine sounds. Looked extremely wide/long from our view. The light's rate of blinking sort of looks like normal aircraft. Only there were 3 lights, and all 3 lights moved together, and their blinking pattern was synced up as if highlighting a single shape. Unclear if disc/chevron/whatever. If it was 3 helicopters, they did a really good job going at the same speed in the same direction, really really slow. I've seen normal helicopters flying over my house before. Lights look different, and I can hear the engines. Only other simplified guess I can make is some kids tied 3 drones together with a really really long fishing line. I wouldn't be surprised if it was more than 1 to 3 miles long. I'm no pilot or anything. So my ability to judge the distance/speed/size is based on only my understanding that a traffic light is as big as I am close up. Uploaded video to youtube: https://youtu.be/pr8p7LcCZ5M
October 28, 2018 · 5:10 PM · SPHERE
Charlotte, NC
Was on a flight taking off out of Charlotte Douglas en route to Boston, MA. A few minutes into take off (but close to cloud line), I looked out the window and saw a small grey orb with a bright led like blue light moving in the opposite direction of the plane's travel. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 28, 2018 · 9:00 AM · SPHERE
Forbush, NC
My wife and I are traveling east on all 421 and Yakking county North Carolina. When as a passenger in our car I observed a bright glowing light that seem to be moving and I slight right to left but in a direction towards us. As we came across a bridge the light seem to somewhat change direction from my right heading to my Lyft over a group or a grove of trees. As I made mention to this my wife observed it also as we moved to a north direction on 04 21 about 150 yards tomorrow right there were four lights red orbs to ahead of the other two in the rear of them spacing maybe in the distance is hard to tail but they were glowing red orbs as I made mention of them my wife pulled off the road and in doing so I noticed that the two in front just simply disappeared the two in the rear started to circle each other or one circling the other and obviously with some excitement we try to get out of the car quickly, but as we did we looked up and they were ! simply gone the two they had circled each other. As we started glancing in the sky, there was one orbit that move quickly behind a group of trees in the distance. We moved forward into though on the highway and it simply vanished very unusual it’s haunted both of us because we don’t think it was anything natural it was his true in a lot of it was as if they were physically controlled very unusual it’s always this since we both saw them when we can explain what they were very unusual
October 26, 2018 · 10:30 PM · OTHER
Smithfield, NC
My husband and I had just lay down, had only been in bed for a little bit we heard a humming sound coming from outside not a loud humm a low humm. I got out of bed and went to to the window and looked out to see if I could see what was making the noise. I looked in the sky and saw a very large plane shape craft very low over the trees and moving very very slow, the craft was not moving as fast a planes do around here. I told my husband to go with me outside, so we went out on our front porch, all we could see was a dark out line of the craft, no lights at all and then we looked across there was another plane shaped craft with lights along the wings but not round lights these were like squares patches of lights very bright. The crafts made only the humming noise no loud plane noises like all the planes that fly across our house from Semore Johnston air force base in Goldsboro always do . We watched the crafts fly low and slow in the sky one no lights at all and the other with light square on the wings only till the went out of sight heading north toward Rockymont, NC. Then after they went out of sight my husband went back inside I stood there for a few minutes just watching the sky and then here came a huge red light round and fast it was out of sight in just a second . I would really like to know what these things are and what the heck is going on, can someone please tell us. Witness provides no contact information, so we are unable to communicate with her. PD
October 23, 2018 · 6:05 AM · TRIANGLE
Winston-Salem, NC
I reported the following to MUFON.com today and found this site and decided to share what I wrote to them. I stepped out on the balcony just after 6 am today (10-23-2018) to have a cigarette and a minute or two later directly above me was a object that had to be at least 100 foot in width and 50 or more feet in length, 50 feet or less above me just over the tree tops moving 10 to 15 mph in a straight line going East heading towards the city of Winston-Salem, NC, with 4 huge tail lights flashing/strobes bright yellow-orange and red, (multi-colored) randomly without a pattern and one flashing bright red light on top, bright as LED lights and just as it was getting out of sight another one going North but 100 to 150 feet higher and directly above me came and moving about 20 to 25 mph, I was watching that one and to the right of me looking North-East I saw another one heading towards the first one that was now out of sight going 20-25 mph heading South-East and as I was following that one, another one heading South but much higher in the air about 300-400 feet and just above a thin cloud appeared. I called using 411 the Winston-Salem Police non emergency number and was connected and gave the same account I"m telling you at approximately at 6:15 am and asked them if they could tell me if the Military was doing Drone exercises but they said they would make a report and have someone call back. At 6:30 am give or take a officer called me back and all she told me was she didn't see anything and wouldn't answer my question if the Military was in the area. The first object did have a hard to describe very slight sound which I can mimic if I had to but I tried to record it with my iPad and it doesn't come out good, I've attached photos (taken within a hour afterwards, it was dark at the time but the sky had lightened up) I took them from my perspective and sketched on them (poorly) what I saw and I hope it gives you a good idea of what I seen. I'm regretting not thinking to grab my iPad and take a video but I was in complete awe of what I was seeing but I'll now be out in the morning ready and waiting to see if t! hey come back. There was a man walking South on the sidewalk and I tried to get his attention so he could witness it too but he didn't respond to me and also in the distance there was a lady walking 4 small dogs that were freaking out when this happened and she was yelling at them and trying to calm them down. I've have never seen anything like this and so close to me that would make me want to file a report, I just want to know if what I saw could be Military Drones. Thank-you for providing a way for me to share my experience and I'm hoping you can provide some information regarding this experience.
October 22, 2018 · 5:15 AM · TRIANGLE
Wilmington, NC
I saw a vee-shaped formation of lights with 5 on one side and 6 on the other going south. The lights seemed to be objects illuminated by the sun that has not come up yet. The objects must have been up as high as normal satellites that I see all the time in the morning. It traveled from north to south in about 10 seconds and I do not know of anything that can travel that fast.
October 19, 2018 · 10:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Asheville, NC
I went out onto my porch to smoke a cigarette and saw a large trianglular craft over my apartment building. It was black and about the size of a football field and had bright orange lights on each corner. It moved slowly over my building and I walked out to the other side of my building. It started tilted nose up slightly and froze for about a minute. Then did the same for all three corners of the ship. It started spinning slowly and moving forward then disappeared.
October 18, 2018 · 12:00 PM · DISK
Wilmington, NC
The crafts were going into and out of many V and unique formations. The discs were almost in a dance like interaction with each other. Tremendous speed within the tight formation was amazing. I pulled out my phone to snap dozens of pictures as they sped to the southwest horizon. I would estimate they were around 20,000 feet in the air. I say that because airline paths that fly up and down the coast cruise around 30,000 feet and they appeared lower than that.
October 15, 2018 · 11:20 PM · FLASH
Kill Devil Hills, NC
When the object got larger and brighter right before it shot off it almost looked like it was oval in size and it gave off a colorful refraction of light (like sunlight bouncing off a crystal) with the bright white flare. There was no noise heard during the sighting of the anomaly and it only lasted 3-5 seconds.
October 12, 2018 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Sunset, NC
Four orange balls of light that hovered, then moved slowly over the ocean disappearing one at a time. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 10, 2018 · 9:23 PM · CIRCLE
Greensboro, NC
A huge circle was present in the sky with a triangular blinking light. The light was smooth in fading and reappearing with about two seconds in between blinking on and blinking off. The light was close to a purple hue. I walked about a mile and the UFO was present the entire time. The shape was a bit hard to make out because it was a break in the clouds, but the ship was low enough in the sky to make out the circular shape. The blinking light was perfectly visible.
October 10, 2018 · 12:00 AM
Morgantown, NC
226 was closed going up the mountain due to accident this morning was raining, hazy out. Made a U-turn going back down mountain in open lane. Directly across from wreckage I look up and I spotted a craft! Oval in shape, white rotating lights (slow rotation), sitting right above the clouds. Directly over the wreckage...I can't be the only person that saw this craft!
October 7, 2018 · 2:00 AM · DISK
Ocean Isle Beach, NC
At approximately 2:00 i could not sleep because I witnessed many craft the previous night but, I could not pick them up because they were so high up. That night one flew from due north over the house at a high rate of speed, it then abruptly changed direction without losing speed on a 45 degree angle to due east, then disappeared. I’ve been spooked since. When I went out and looked the following day, at first I didn’ see anything. The front of my house faces due south, so when I looked up to the southeast, i could see Orion, i’ve Always enjoyed Orion. After a time, I saw what at first I thought was a star, however I saw that it was moving and appeared to be changing colors from reddish orange to a blue green color. It looked like it was pulsating, and it would fade in and out. Some of the fading was due to a thin layer of clouds. I then went into the house to retrieve my iphone6s to record it. I recorded 20 minutes. When I replayed the video and zoomed in, I realized that it was 2 discs flying in conjunction. It appears it's possible other craft came into the picture as well. I don’t know for sure. I watched for as long as possible, but eventually the cloud cover became too thick. I don’t know what they are, however if you want the video footage, you are welcome to it.
October 4, 2018 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Concord, NC
My husband spotted this object, which he described as a "tiny stop light," while we were driving northeast along East Poplar Tent Rd, just after the I-85 interchange. I assumed it might be a drone. I caught a few glimpses in my driver side mirror and pulled into James Dorton Park to get a better view while my husband and kid went to the park. I filmed for 6 minutes and observed the object slowly flying northeast but in a straight line concurrent with Poplar Tent Rd. The object was slower than both birds and airplanes, and seemed to rotate and reflect sunlight, as if faceted. It can barely be seen in my video and gets fainter as the capture continues. After turning off my phone camera, I lost sight of the object. See video from 04OC18. PD
September 27, 2018 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Durham, NC
Small light in sky that looked like a star at first but then brightened to at least 200% of its size, then back to original size and then brightened again. We were driving so cannot say the duration of time. Pure white light and no sound. Would love to know if anyone else saw this in night sky!
September 27, 2018 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Greensboro, NC
I was crying by my window when a blue ball of light came through it and went around the rooms of my house as i watched following the light. the light got very bright and asked me if I wanted to see 'something' (i don't remember), but I felt a cold sensation and myself slumping to the ground. What I saw was another reality. This light was trying to teach me something about interconnected relationship of communication and time. I had feelings in the place of symbolism, thoughts in the absence of words, not something I can easily explain. At the point I had thought to ask it one question, all I wanted to know was "who are you"; which they replied with strange voice "a star". Months after and days proceeding this encounter I felt experienced energy. Seeing, somehow understanding, the relationship of this 'butterfly' effect gave every moment of life more emphasis. It wasn't long after I would read similar stories like mine. Other people who have pleaded their innocence and purity to the cosmos have seen these lights. What I can't describe is the true substance of these detail. minor details: this light was blue like pleiades. my left arm has FULL orion constellation on my wrist/forearm I once "saw an angel" when I was still very young five years old