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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
July 8, 2018 · 2:10 AM · OTHER
Greensboro, NC
I saw an object in the sky that looked like lights stacked vertically that were changing from red to white.
July 5, 2018 · 4:00 PM · CIGAR
Mars Hill, NC
myself and friend saw cigar silver craft going south to north about 1/2 mile to a mile up traveling approx, 250 to 300 mph seen for 35 45 secs overcast day again seen 3 days later same area siligly different flight path,,,,, late night have heard weird roars in sky once twice a month,, blacked out patch in the night sky with noise twice in the past year there's more I needa investigator to call !!!
July 5, 2018 · 4:12 AM · LIGHT
Pittsboro, NC
On the morning of July 5, 2018, approximately at 4.12 am I woke up as usual to go use a bathroom. As I sat on my bed, I saw a BRIGHT light coming from the sky lights in my bathroom to by bedroom. My bathroom is in my bedroom. The light went all the way behind a corner in my bedroom and created a rectangle. I was puzzled but I got up and went into the bathroom to look what was going on. As I walked into the bathroom I saw VERY sharp and bright light right above the sky light. I had to shield my eyes from the brightness. I could see only sharp blue/white light covering the whole window. It reminded me movies about aliens where people have to shield their eyes because of the brightness. However, I lost the next 10 minutes. I only remember waking up and sitting back on my bed. Still looking at the bright light. I turned my back to it and went to sleep. This whole time my inner voice was telling me to 'just go to sleep'. I woke up to go to work at 5.20 am and the light was gone. I have no idea why I did not wake my husband up or did not take pictures. I just had this very happy feeling. On July 6th, 2018, at 4.23 am the light was there again, but in distance. It was not covering my window. This time I took pictures. first I thought it was a full moon, however, on July 8, 2018 I took a picture of the moon and found out that it was not full moon.
July 4, 2018 · 9:40 PM · FIREBALL
Wilmington, NC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSc_0ROafyA video 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6MpHi--N4U video 2 july 4 2018, 940ish est.. first of two fireballs.. no noise, no smoke trail, same path on both, no chutes as if a flare shell, no noticeable change in altitude, basically horizon (tree tops in this case) til going into a cloud and no longer visible. this is the first video, around the 30 second mark i got up to see if the other human in the parking lot saw it, but could not get her attention. wilmington nc
June 29, 2018 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Carolina Beach, NC
Orange orb about the size of the orange moon seen earlier in the evening. 5 to 7 scattered small lights in front of it. It moved northward over the ocean, faster than a plane and much larger. No sounds was heard.
June 29, 2018 · 9:00 AM · TEARDROP
Fairview, NC
I was driving down Highway 17 in Fairview. When I looked up and saw a teardrop or Starlight shape two white lights one on top one on bottom two green lights to the left and right. Got out of my car to take a closer look and it just floated off in a cloud appeared there was no other clouds in the sky that night. Then I saw streams in the sky from exhaust possibly military crafts pursuing it.
June 10, 2018 · 12:05 AM · LIGHT
Waves, NC
Single object, appeared to be a very bright star at first however started moving at high speeds within a region of he sky. This object was quite a distance offshore and started near the wateline then moved quickly into the sky. The object hovered and continued movie quickly and then hover for over an hour at which time it very quickly went in an upward direction until gone from eyesite.
June 4, 2018 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Clinton, NC
Me and my girlfriend were laying on the trampoline watching the stars when a faint light started coming from the horizon. It got closer and bright and had a face image in. The wind picked up and the ball of fire turned from Orange to yellow and then disappeared. I have a video of the event. Witness provides no contact information. PD
June 4, 2018 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Clinton/Dunn, NC
Me and my Wife were lying on the trampoline watching the stars as we did just about nightly. I spotted a faint light far in the distance and pointed it out to my Wife. As it got closer it appeared to be a "Pulsating Ball Of Fire/Orb" that was roughly the same size as the moon that night. As we continued observing the object it appeared to slowly move towards us and we realized we both saw the object had the image of a face. Everything seemed to freeze in time and I recall crackling like electricity over the whole sky and then a sudden cool breeze. I also remember a sudden strong smell of decay/rot. Also when the object got really close there were Black whispy beings around the object as if escorting it and the sound of gigantic wings flapping like a flock of geese, but much, much louder as if they were giant beings and that's where the strong wind was coming from. My wife has repeatedly said that they were Black Angels. Other than that everything was deathly SILENT. I remember thinking I was losing my mind and I called law enforcement. We ran inside and a cat we had started freaking out and a weird feeling swept over me. We went back out and the object suddenly flashed and turned into a yellow fireball with a tail like a comet, changed direction, and vanished. The next thing I remember is Sampson County Sheriff Deputies arriving and us telling them that I was asleep and my wife had woken me suddenly and pulled a huge prank on me so they wouldn't think I was insane and have me Involuntary Committed. They searched the house for narcotics and also searched outside and around the trampoline we were on. I recall the Deputy asking me if we had been killing any animals around the house because of the smell I assume. After the Deputies left, the next thing I recall is waking up and it being daylight and wondering if I had dreamed all this I am recalling to you now. Then I remembered the VIDEO, which I didn't when the Sheriff's Deputies we're when I called early that morning. To this day I'm not sure what happened and I have many unanswered questions and my Wife refuses to have a direct detailed conversation of what we witnessed. I Seriously Need To Know What We Witnessed. *- I HAVE VIDEO OF THE EVENT RECORDED WITH MY PHONE. ORIGINALLY THERE WERE 2 BUT 1 SOMEHOW DISSAPEARED FROM MY GOOGLE DRIVE ACCOUNT. I had reported this before but not in detail and was contacted by email by an investigator but I got no phonecall as I was informed I would and when I started asking questions that I wanted answered, I no longer got a response by email or any other means and this event affected my life and still does on a daily basis.
June 3, 2018 · 10:40 AM · RECTANGLE
Asheville, NC
Was walking up the stairs to my apartment in North Asheville across from UNCA. Saw a small bright white light (like a bright star). Moved slowly from left of sky to right. Light was slowly and closely passed alongside by a small rectangular craft, looking almost like a small shuttle pod or craft of some sort (*note* no visible wings on craft, it was small possibly the size of a large minivan). The craft showed l faintly blinking red and green lights. Shortly after the UFO’s passed each other the white light craft stoped and stayed stationary (it is still there to my knowledge). The other craft had vanished.
June 3, 2018 · 12:00 AM · CYLINDER
Cameron, NC
I was outside around 2 or 3 talking my puppy out to do her business and I saw a cylindrical glowing ufo coming fast almost vertical. I lost it in the trees. I ran inside to get my husband and I had sunglasses on and he didn't. I saw another orb shaped one in the same area moving a bit slower. There was a lot of cloud coverage at this time heading east to north west I'd saw. I was wondering if anyone else saw them. There might have been more. they had no wings and no sound coming from them at all. Military planes pass over our home all of the time and they are very loud but not these ufos. My dog was acting funny the whole time. We went out pretty far into the property and I had a feeling to grab my sunglasses. If I hadn't I never would have seen them. The dog was crazy for a while after, too, but the clouds covered the area.
May 17, 2018 · 11:20 PM · LIGHT
Pisgah Forest, NC
There appeared to be a couple of aircraft in the sky at the same time. I heard nothing unusual.
May 3, 2018 · 5:00 AM
Cary, NC
The outline of a house sized craft silently cruised over me in my work parking lot early one dark morning hovering above the old navy store perfectly still.this was a ufo with stealth technology blending in with the building and the darkness. I got out of my car and stared at it from the middle of the parking lot for about 2 minutes, then it silently darted off to my left at astonishing speed.
May 1, 2018 · 5:30 AM · DIAMOND
Asheville, NC
About three months later I woke up in the middle of the night and a bright neon green light was in the grass of my neighbors across the street. I live in the woods and this light was not the color of a lighting bug or a small animals eye - I watched - did not take my eyes off as it buried itself into the dirt. I know what I saw and spent a half an hour combing every square inch of the grassy area the next day and didn't see any big bug that may have died or any hole from a mole if that is what someone is going to say to me. I just want an explanation because this is happening and maybe there is an explanation. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
April 30, 2018 · 11:40 PM · LIGHT
Greenville, NC
I was outside on my back porch speaking to my dad on the phone, and a star like object moved across the sky. It flew over my head beyond the trees in an instant leaving no sound in its wake.
April 28, 2018 · 12:49 AM · UNKNOWN
Asheville, NC
At 12:49 AM, I heard two loud booms. In about two seconds, I heard another loud boom. This process was repeated until I heard four more loud booms. Then, I heard one loud boom which sounded like it was lower and farther away. In all, I heard seven loud booms and two booms which sounded farther away. This occurrence happened at my house which border the Blue Ridge Parkway in Oteen/Asheville, North Carolina.
April 21, 2018 · 6:00 AM · SPHERE
Havelock, NC
I’m a night owl. I go to bed at about 5 am every morning. I spend a lot of time outside at night looking at the stars. There was one really bright star that I looked at a good amount that night and was wondering what it was called, or if it was a planet. At about 6 am, my dog demanded to go out and the sun was just starting to come up. It was light enough out that only the very brightest stars were still visible. As I’m looking at that one bright star I had been staring at all night, I noticed that there was a second one over to the right of it that wasn’t there before. While I’m watching this second really bright star and wondering where it came from, it started to look like it was moving, but it didn’t have any blinking red lights on it like an airplane does. Then it suddenly got a lot brighter and just disappeared. Have you ever seen an incandescent light bulb when it has a power surge? How it gets really bright for a second right before it burns out? It was like that, but just an orb of light. I have no idea how large it was. It looked just like a bright star. It could have been something large very far away or something smaller that was much closer. When it vanished it didn't shoot across the sky or move noticeably, it was just gone. It kind of just winked out after it pulsed. It was no shooting star (which I did also see that night) and I live right outside an air base, so I’m used to planes flying overhead literally all the time and it was not that either. It was still and looked just like a star until it moved a little, pulsed brightly, and was gone. I am a former intelligence analyst for the Drug Enforcement Administration. I have spent many years working in law enforcement and was born and raised in the military. I have never before seen any sort of UFO. Possible Iridium satellite "flare? PD
April 19, 2018 · 3:45 PM · CIGAR
Fayetteville, NC
Me and my children were heading to my mom's house when something very silvery like aluminum like so shiny flew by in the sky went in a cloud and disappeared...now this is over the overpass of 295 off mcauthur rd i kept driving to follow it because if it were a plane we would have been able to see it or follow it its all open no matter if it went higher foreward straight or down it was gone and was too big to have dissapeared in broad day light like that its always something strange going on in that area but it freaked me and the kids out for sure
April 13, 2018 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Garner, NC
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 9, 2018 · 11:20 PM · CROSS
Black Mountain, NC
I am a truthful person, with my friend from church this night. We both saw the same thing I was driving home with a friend from Church, looking to my left (West) to see if the road was clear, I saw an odd looking low hanging “Light”. I said my my friend “ WHAT IS THAT??” She saw it then & exclaimed as I did. The light was just hanging low, very bright as a star, but it had kind of “Spikes” of light, even like a “Tail” of light. But is was all light, not other color. It was too low for a star & it wasn’t moving, at least didn’t seem to be. I drove my car as I took pictures (!) then tried to find a hill unobstructed by trees & hills to take more pictures & to watch this thing. We spent probably close to an hour watching & taking pictures. Most of them were from my phone. Some videos were taken by me, as we watched it change shapes, in the videos it was pulsating a LOT. We got cold, it was late, so we reluctantly went home, When I put the pictures on my computer I got a BIG surprise. There was an object in the last few pictures of that night. It was in only 1 picture. We did not see this when we were watching. It obviously had no lights or sound ( or maybe it was too far to hear it) I can clearly see a “Craft” very close to this Light we were watching. Neither of us know what we saw, & I sure don’t know what this is on this 1 picture. I tried to edit it out, it won’t go away, so it is definitely there. A solid object that we didn’t see.
April 4, 2018 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
Denton, NC
me ,my son and friend saw a bright light just above the western horizon.....i looked for around 10 minutes,went to get binoculars it was gone....it was too bright to be a star,and i am very familiar with the night skies at my home...im outside every night.....at one time it looked as though it turned lite green for a fraction of a second....
April 4, 2018 · 6:44 PM · OTHER
Madison, NC
My wife and I were in the car, stopped waiting to turn. My wife saw a crescent shaped object in the sky to our southeast, above the tree line. The sun was behind the trees. She described the object as looking like light being reflected off a mirrored crescent with a smaller object attached on the bottom. After a second or two, it disappeared suddenly. The car was not moving during the sighting.
April 3, 2018 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Denver, NC
On 04/03/2018, at approximately 06:00, I observed a fast-moving object at apparently very high altitude, moving from North to South. It crossed between the two stars in Ursa Major that point towards Polaris and Polaris itself, somewhat closer to Polaris. Object appeared to be at significantly greater altitude than commercial airliners, though possibly attainable by military aircraft. It reminded me somewhat of early satellites which did not follow the earth's rotation in terms of brightness, but speed was greater. The object was too distant to determine size or shape. The sky was cloudless and dark. What caught my attention was that it appeared to consistently move at what I surmised to be several times the speed of sound, yet several times instantly “jump ahead” some distance. Distance “jumped” was hard to estimate due to altitude, but I would say in the tens of miles each time. Twice, the object “jumped” laterally as well, though I would estimate a shorter distance. I followed the object until it passed the treeline at my house.
March 31, 2018 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Fountain, NC
Around 8pm, I went outside to get groceries out of my car and noticed how big the moon was, so I decided to take a picture of it. At that time two of my cats looked up to the sky towards the same direction of the moon and started going that way as if they seen something and were going to attack. As soon as I look to see what they are looking at my back porch light turned off. I noticed blinking red and white lights at the same exact place above the tree line hovering just like 2 nights before when me and my husband thought it was a jet going over our house and stop and hovered there at the same exact spot but the previous night it only hovered for about 5 mins before moving again and going back around the same way it came only not directly over our house. Also, then there seem to be another one on the direct opposite side hovering and when that one started moving the other just kinda disappeared. But last night was different I only seen that one hovering with blinking red and white lights. I watched it for like 5 or 10 minutes outside then I went in and went to my front door to look out and it seemed to go up and then back to the same spot. My husband was on the way home and by time he got there in a 30 minute period it had move a little above where it was and the lights had stopped blinking, it then looked like any other star in the sky, but I know it wasn't just a star. Once my husband got home and I walked outside the back porch light was back on. I'd say it was there for another 10 to 20 minutes when I looked out again it was gone.