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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
September 25, 2018 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Nags Head, NC
I saw one light in the sky, then another joined it. They were in a north-south line. One went out as my boyfriend came outside. We both saw the one that was left, then 3 others joined it, still in a north-south line. They blinked off one at a time.
September 9, 2018 · 5:00 PM · SPHERE
Sunset Beach, NC
Sitting on the beach and high in the sky was a shiny object that stayed there until we left 2 hours later. It was not there today?
September 2, 2018 · 11:58 AM · RECTANGLE
Charlotte, NC
Black box/rectangle-shaped object moving from West to East (approximately from Gastonia towards Monroe) over Charlotte, NC, above commercial aircraft landing airspace for CLT.
August 31, 2018 · 9:38 PM · TRIANGLE
Lumberton, NC
Object appeared from horizon, descended vertically toward highway median. Then slowly moved horizontal towards west side of I-95 where it hovered silently as I drove underneath.
August 30, 2018 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Morehead City, NC
I saw many objects moving very fast changing direction and vanishing. Some were moving very slowly and none were planes. You can tell the difference. I have never seen anything like it in my life. It was more that the object was a light rather than it had lights. Changing from very bright to vanishing. Eight plus objects. I have a video…
August 30, 2018 · 6:00 PM · CHEVRON
Mint Hill, NC
Disappeared in some storm clouds to the north and was gone. Approximately several thousand ft up and have no idea on approx speed. Again, definitely not a plane, bird, drone, or ballon...just solid black and maybe turning over several times before disappearing in a dark storm cloud.
August 22, 2018 · 4:23 AM · FLASH
Morganton, NC
I woke up at 4am and decided to step outside for a cigarette before I had to get my husband up for work. When I finished, I went inside and remembered that I had to go to the atm and I had to do it before my husband woke up and left at 5:30. As I stepped outside and walked to the car, I noticed that the area was lit up with a dim bright light; almost like a streetlight was turning back on. I almost didn’t pay attention to it while I was walking by, but I remembered that there isn’t a light there so I looked up. As I looked up, there was a bright blue/white flash of light above me that resembled a circular shape and then it shot up and across the sky. I stood there for a minute trying to find an explanation of what had happened and couldn’t. Nothing happened again for the remainder of the early morning.
August 17, 2018 · 9:00 PM · CHANGING
Locust, NC
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 17, 2018 · 2:26 AM · LIGHT
Winston-Salem, NC
Saw a bright circular light in the sky. It kept moving. Was a different color than the stars. More of a yellowish color. It hovered in one area for about 20 minutes then started shifting further away to the right where it hovered up and down and to the left and right for about 45 minutes until it faded away. It had colored lights beaming down in far distance for only a few seconds. Heard dogs barking and a swooshing sound at the end. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 16, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Nags Head, NC
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 16, 2018 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Spindale, NC
We were standing behind a bar at about 7:30 PM and noticed this light fixed in the sky. It never moved until two hours later when it slowly faded away (It also turned red where it had been whitish blue at the first sighting.) At first we thought, "Whatever it must be a tower or something." Then when we came back outside so my friend could smoke we saw it still. After being out their for 15 minutes we saw, at a directly opposite position in the sky, another light that was an orange color and was also fixed. It was still daytime when we saw them and it was dark when they faded away.
August 15, 2018 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Waxhaw, NC
Was checking on my animals and heard a strange noise. I looked around to see what it was and assumed it was coming from the highway, but then looked to the sky and seen 2 flashing green lights passing overhead. After a second of watching these lights move around the sky, the noise stopped and the lights started moving slower then stopped completely. The lights were stationary in the sky for a moment, then slowly started rising and stopped and changed from green to red flashing lights, and then they started to flash between the colors and start moving away from my house, and then suddenly stopped. The lights turned off and the ufo resembled a star in the sky (when the stars weren't even out yet) and it disappeared.
August 14, 2018 · 9:15 PM · CHEVRON
Greensboro, NC
When i looked closer, it looked like there were more smaller lights close around it. The light started to fade a dull orange and then it disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 13, 2018 · 9:05 PM · FIREBALL
Charlotte, NC
Wife and I where driving eastbound on Arrowood Rd towards Walmart when we looked towards the sky and the thin crescent moon. Up in the sky there was an orange glowing dot that seemed to get bigger and bigger. I asked my wife if it looked like an airplane and she said yes it then took her words back as we continued to drive. The ball moved westbound and it looked like a faraway ball of fire. As the light grew bigger we both realized it wasnt a recognizable aircraft. I asked my wife to record as we attempted to make a U-turn on the boulevard to keep watching and hopefully record it. As we stopped, the ball suddenly disappeared out of the sky. We where both skeptical about what we saw as it was not common.
August 13, 2018 · 9:00 PM · CHANGING
Franklinton, NC
Object appeared out of nowhere, and steadied over the tree line facing southeast. Within minutes, it was changing colors (from orange to white, to blood red, to yellow and even hints of purple). Green was also emitting at certain moments. There was no definite shape to the "object" and a red aura was noticed by three witnesses around it. Random spots of red, shapeshifting objects were spotted coming out of the main object itself, which we caught via photographs. With the main object, there were three smaller objects progressing around and from it. After about 25 minutes of moving at a slower speed and changing shape, the object zoomed off into the sky within seconds, disappearing into the sky.
August 12, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Fayetteville, NC
I reside in Fayetteville, NC, and I live in an apartment on the second floor. I occasionally open my bedroom blinds at night to get beautiful views of the moon & stars. Tonight around 10p.m., I opened my blinds, turned out my bedroom light and laid in bed gazing out of the window slightly to the right of where the moon is usually visible with hopes of witnessing the meteor shower. After looking toward the sky for sometime a bright light appeared and I noticed it was actually hovering over the woods in the back of my apartment complex. I watched the bright light as closely as possible to rule out the possibility of it being a drone being operated by someone nearby, it wasn't. I called my husband to come look and he saw it as well. The bright light hovered for about 30 mins in the same spot and faster then I could blink it disappeared. The moon & stars are not even visible tonight due to the frequent thunderstorms we are having so the only explanation is that it! was certainly an extraterrestrial sighting.
August 12, 2018 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Bryson City, NC
Was out watching the Perseid meteor shower last night between 145-545am at the top of our mountain which is approximately 3,000 ft above sea level here in Bryson City, NC. I spotted what looked to me like a very small, star-like light that appeared to be very tiny or far away; moving up & down and in a zig zag erratic motions; of which no satellite or plane is capable to my knowledge. It almost looked like it was shimmying up and around the sky, it looked weightless, as if it was moving in space or through water. My fiance agreed with me that it was in fact moving and we even used a stationary object to judge its movements to and around the sky. It didn't cover much space it just seemed it be in the same general area of sky. Honestly it was so small and far away, I wouldn't have ever noticed it had I not been looking for the meteors. 25 minutes after we noticed that one we spotted another small light moving in the same erratic zig zag movements but instead of staying in one area it went from our right vision in the sky directly to the left, over the course of about no more than 5 minutes. Then disappeared. Both objects looked the same and moved the same way.
August 5, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Weaverville, NC
My wife and I were walking west on our street around 9:30 tonight. As we continued we could see an orange glow through the trees. When the trees cleared we could see several (5-7) orange lights grouped tightly together. We continued walking and watching the lights and thinking what the hell is that. We stopped at the cul de sac to see if the lights were moving. They were slowly moving right in the western sky we think over 1000 feet in the air. The lights moved away faster but low on the horizon and finally disappeared. Our guess is that it lasted 8 minutes. We didn't bring either of our phones. We came back to the house and I looked up UFO on the internet, and I found your website.
August 3, 2018 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Asheboro, NC
A bright light flew across the sky faster than a plane and brighter than a shooting star. It had no light trail and suddenly disappeared in mid-flight. There were 3 witnesses.
August 1, 2018 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Zebulon, NC
In my backyard, looked up into the sky saw what looked like 5 stars formed in a circle. Each "star" in the circle changed color from red to blue to green to orange to yellow, etc. There were five of these "circles" spaced all around the sky above me. It was a cloudy night but these circles stood out quite clearly. In addition to these circles, behind the clouds we began to see these flashing, different colored lights zig zagging across the sky and then suddenly disappear. The circles remained stationery in the sky and were there when we finally came in about midnight. We took pictures but when we saw them up close on our cell phones, you only saw a white dot with a red aura around them. They were very high in the sky. We saw them again, last night, August 4, at 10:00 p.m. Same exact thing except there were only 4 of them.
July 28, 2018 · 10:47 PM · SPHERE
Charlotte, NC
Uncoutable orbs similar to millions of fireflies Flying high in sky. Travelling from Nw to SE then slowly disappeared.
July 16, 2018 · 12:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Wilson, NC
Riding us 42 east, notice a large object worth red, orange, white lights, heard no noise, later it moved further away, then a white round light flashed by object, was actually freaked out to see something like this, brother had been telling us he's seen for months on different nights.
July 10, 2018 · 10:10 PM · OVAL
Carolina Beach, NC
Mars. PD
July 10, 2018 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Topsail Island, NC
We got binoculars and they were in the shape of a triangle and appeared the outline was dots. It was not moving and stayed stationary. All of a sudden, one light faded out and then the other. Didn’t see them anymore as we sit out there for the next couple hours. We saw and heard other aircraft and helicopters but there was no sound when these were seen. They were super bright compared to everything else in the sky. So bright, it reflected on the horizon so was easy to tell how much higher it was and wasn’t a boat. Very strange.