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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
December 18, 2017 · 5:30 PM · SPHERE
Concord, NC
Saw 3 large sphere shaped objects traveling towards 1 stationary object. They flew in the same trajectory about 45 to 60 seconds apart. It was cloudy and they were just under the cloud base. Were traveling at a slow rate of speed. There was an orange hue like a distant campfire. There was no color change just dimming and brightening. As each one passed they followed the same direction and made a slight angular turn of about 20 degrees to the south of my location. Each one was slightly closer as they passed over and I could see details of the third one. It appeared as if there was an orangeish haze coming off it but not enough to leave a trail. There was a smaller sphere inside of the large outer one and was positioned at about 7:00 area in the direction it was traveling. The smaller one illuminated the outer one. There was no structure to it, it looked like a giant bubble. There was absolutely no sound. The only odd effect was static electricity feeling in the air. The objects grouped to gather in a diamond shape and ascended into the clouds and that was the end of the sighting. I have an hd video that is about 6 minutes. As the last one went overhead my phone shutdown... I do however have the majority of it recorded with some detail of the closest one.
December 14, 2017 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Germanton, NC
I was watching the meteor shower and all of a sudden a light rises up and it looked like it sat there for a minute. Then it moved in a zigzag pattern then moved in a straight line and it kinda sounded like a plane but a bit quieter. It looked white and it was a circular light. There was only one that I seen. I went to take a picture of it on my phone and then my phone shut off and died.
December 14, 2017 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Germanton, NC
I was watching the meteor shower, and all of a sudden, a light rises up and it looked like it sat there for a minute. Then it moved in a zigzag pattern, then moved in a straight line and it kinda sounded like a plane, but a bit quieter. It looked white and it was a circular light. There was only one that I seen. I went to take a picture of it on my phone and then my phone shut off and died. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 14, 2017 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Durham, NC
Meteor? PD
December 13, 2017 · 12:56 AM · FORMATION
Fayetteville, NC
Outside with husband watching Geminid Meteor shower when what at first appeared to be a flock of birds in the sky realized it was NOT, 10 to 15 small long ovals glowed slightly, went straight across sky but also appeared wavy and in formation. Moved too fast and smooth to be a plane also made no noise. Spotted by Peadens Seafood Restaurant.
December 12, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Vass, NC
Sighting of a star?? PD
December 12, 2017 · 4:00 PM · OVAL
Davidson, NC
I was on the way to drop off my friends drivers license as she left it at my house the night before. It was around 4ish in the afternoon on December 12th, 2017, in Davidson NC. Right down the road from my house I noticed a dark grey oval shape in the sky partially blocked by clouds. I thought maybe it was an airplane but as I drove down the road it didnt move. It stayed exactly in the same place in the sky not moving. I kept driving and kept an eye on it. Eventually I lost sight of it when I drove through a wooded area but after I emerged from the forest I could see the shape again. I wanted to get a picture of it so I pulled over and parked in a nearby church parking lot and when I looked for it I couldn't find it anywhere. I continued driving down Davidson Concord road and its like it just vanished.
December 11, 2017 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Durham, NC
Large bright ball of white light in North sky, low in sky, very fast- thought was meteor but seemed so big and close- not sure as I saw out corner of my eye and it was very quick and silent. Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
December 11, 2017 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Clayton, NC
I was working at my grocery store tonight and I was collecting carts outside. I look up into the sky and see what I thought was a very bright star. It is a bright orange and a little bigger than common stars you will see. I then notice it moving slowly, there were no flashing lights and no noise coming from it, so it could not be an aircraft. There was no light streaking off of it and the speed was very slow, could not be a comet. It began to move faster and went over store and off into the distance before I could get any photographs or video. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 9, 2017 · 4:30 AM · FLASH
Winston-Salem, NC
Three quick bright blueish/green flashes, lit up the whole sky.
December 1, 2017 · 3:00 PM · SPHERE
Wilmington, NC
In late November / early December of 2017, I was living at a student living apartment complex at the intersection of Randall Parkway and S College Rd, Wilmington, NC 28403. I am 23 years old now, and was about 20 years old at the time. My one other witness to this event is my roommate (K) at the time, who was about 25. I remember this day pretty vividly as it sent me into a bit of an obsession for months after this happened. I first assumed that what we saw was military since we are coastal. I will relay what happened as best as I can. I had never considered until recently what we saw that evening could’ve been ET. About 4:30 / 5 PM - K and I are going to a gas station up the street. We turn right from Pepys Ln, left onto S College, and go to the BP on the right side of the road. This is just barely off of UNCW campus. K goes into buy beer since I am underage, and we set back for the short .3 mi journey home. We were sober when we left for the gas station, and had been all day. Neither of us have hallucinogenic or delusional mental disorders, and have never seen anything like this. I am driving, and turn left back onto S College, and K and I almost immediately see a rather large aircraft. It was hard to tell at first glance how close it was and the size, but it didn’t take long to realize that it was flying at about the same height as the stoplight we were approaching. It was so low. I then noticed that it was dark grey/black, the size of a typical sedan, and was spherical with short wings extending from the sides. The shape was honestly hard to decipher because I had never seen any type of craft designed this way, and definitely not this close to the ground. I remember hearing a low whirring. I think that it may have had two propeller sort of mechanisms underneath the wings. I couldn’t tell if it was big enough to be manned or unmanned. K and I were both yelling at each other to make sure we were seeing the same thing. Without having to say much at all, we were both in awe of what we were seeing, and also terrified. I needed to get in the right turn lane at the light (S College/Randall) to get us back home. Along that turn lane, vehicles could turn earlier into a Rooms To Go parking lot that was across from where K and I lived. I wanted to try snd keep looking at what we were seeing, so I quickly turned into the RTG lot. It seemed like the craft noticed me, and it made a ~45 degree turn with minimal effort, and immediately went in the direction of Randall Pkwy over the RTG building. I saw when it turned that it almost went belly up, and I couldn’t tell how it gained momentum so quickly. It moved away from my vehicle at what I would guess 45/50 MPH, after hovering right above S College Rd barely moving for a solid 20-40 seconds. I was so in shock of what we had seen, as was K, that we agreed to immediately call the non emergency police number to try and make any real sense of it. We were still at this point convinced we had seen some kind of military UAV/drone/etc, but I have done extensive research and have not seen anything remotely similar to what we saw that day. The police officer I spoke with asked me if I was being held against my will by somebody and if I had taken any drugs (lol). I knew it sounded ridiculous, but we are both clear on what we saw that day, and have not found any answers that point us in the direction of what it could have been.
November 30, 2017 · 5:25 PM · FORMATION
Fayetteville, NC
This took about 1.5 minutes to take place & then they hovered for almost 50 seconds & I couldn’t see them anymore due to a tree line. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
November 29, 2017 · 10:40 PM · OVAL
Lincolnton, NC
They moved erratically for several minutes. Eventually one came towards our home and flew behind it out of our sight. We observed the other light for several more minutes before the light seemingly disappeared as if someone turned off a light switch. Both lights were very high in the sky.
November 27, 2017 · 6:53 PM · LIGHT
Raleigh, NC
I saw 2 bright lights hovering over 401N on my way home as I got closer they never seemed to move just got brighter. Came to a stop at a stop light it never moved. Got a little video as driving towards it but that’s it. It was weird never seen anything like it.
November 24, 2017 · 5:30 PM · CIRCLE
Bullock, NC
I was standing with my father on the bank of Grassy Creek (Kerr Lake on NC & VA border) in Bullock, NC, when we saw a large, fast moving, bright white light approaching from the East, heading South West at about 50 degrees in the sky. I made the comment to my father that it was really moving fast, but there was no sound coming from it. As we were watching the object, it suddenly separated into three individual white lights, and within a second of separation, all of the lights totally disappeared. Vanished!!! We stood there in awe and asked each other…"Did you see that? What was that?” Holy ((1 word deleted))! – I have never seen anything like that in the 50 years that I've been alive.
November 24, 2017 · 5:20 PM · FORMATION
Middlesex, NC
1 bright light coming from the east, about 300 feet high. Flew for 10 seconds and split into 3 lights in a line formation. Flew straight in a West direction and vanished. No noise associated with the lights and it came from over a set of trees out of nowhere.
November 24, 2017 · 8:26 AM · DISK
Harmony, NC
I was requested to check an automatic gate at a property I do the landscaping about 5 miles north of where I live . I had left my driveway and hand proceeded north to the property less than a quarter of a mile when I spotted the desk I thought at first it might be a drone someone was fine and then when my depth perception kicked in, I realized I had saw my first ever UFO. I proceeded to US Highway 21 toward it, watching where I was driving looking back up at it and realized it was a silver desk. The color was very bright, but looked brushed and all it like it was made out of one piece.. I could not judge the height that it was in the air because I didn’t have anything to judge that with as far as perception was concerned that the crash is at least as large as a 1500 ft.² house. As I continued toward where the craft was, it stayed in the same position as I looked at the road and then looked up at the craft, and then it was finally gone, but I saw the crash for perhaps one minute..
November 17, 2017 · 5:00 PM · FIREBALL
Edenton, NC
11/17/17, at 5:00 pm, while driving to work from edenton nc to Windsor, nc I spotted a large streaming object in the southwestern sky. There was a sunset with lots of color in the pink range, the object looked like a comet with a long tail which was split, parallel, I thought I was seeing a meteor and thought it was breaking up as 3 small objects appeared below and falling with it. I pulled over 3 times to take pictures with my phone, I began to change my thinking this was a meteor when the 3 little objects stopped falling and from my vantage point hovered above trendline as the large object kept falling and then curved to the right, at the same time another object streaming the same colors, appeared above and seemed to be falling in the same trajectory. I was hoping to make it to the bridge over the chowan river, hiway 17, to get a clearer view but it had disappeared, all I saw were some jet contrails which were white as the sunset colors were leaving the sky. I have never seen anything similar to this, i was raised at china lake naval base where there was a lot of experimenting going on, aircraft and such. We were a short distance from Edwards air force base and I have witnessed rockets breaking up in the sky from Vandenberg air force base, seen a boiloid as it was decentragating in the mt sky, and have watched a space shuttle land, so I have some experience with weird sky stuff. Not to mention having seen the stealth bomber before it was official. The photos on my phone aren't very good but support what I saw, haven't seen anything reported on this yet, wanted to document before I forget. best wishes.
November 16, 2017 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Pfafftown, NC
Looking out my window at what I thought to be a star, but it’s low. It’s just above the horizon, the other is higher and left which would be east. I thought I saw colors so I got the binoculars and the colors are changing red, blue, green. Then I looked up at a star. No color changing. Then I turned left and saw another round object turning the same colors. My husband saw the first one and said maybe it’s a reflection off the glass. So as we were on our way to bed, I said there are two. Weird.
November 16, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CHEVRON
Asheville, NC
Just outside of downtown Asheville I saw an unidentified craft in the night sky. I was outside of my apartment smoking a cigarette and looking at the stars, when I saw a rounded wing like shape (like a boomerang) enter the periphery of my view and fly across my field of sight. The object was moving extraordinarily fast and the entire sighting lasted a couple seconds. The craft had no visible lights and I only glimpsed it because it must have been flying at a low altitude (speculation). This object made no noise whatsoever. Signed, ((name deleted)) ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) ((To NUFORC Webmaster)), my name is ((name deleted)). I submitted a UFO sighting report on the nuforc.org website and accidentally had the zip code auto populated with an old address. the correct zip is 28804. After I sent in the report I clicked onto the home page and saw this account: Madison, Wisconsin, Tuesday, November 07, 2017, @ 7:35 p.m. (Central)- An adult male, who describes himself as former military, witnessed a dark-colored triangle-, or boomerang-shaped, object fly rapidly overhead in the night sky, exhibiting no navigation lights. Immediately after the object had passed overhead, a smaller object streaked overhead, apparently in pursuit of the triangular craft. The whole incident occurred in an estimated 5 seconds. This report is nearly identical to what I witnessed. Have there been many of these types of sightings? thanks. all the best to you, ((END ADDENDUM))
November 15, 2017 · 8:25 PM · LIGHT
Smithfield, NC
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 15, 2017 · 7:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Davidson, NC
The object was as long as a football field bigger in the front than the back. Rectangle in shape. We thought it was 5 helicopters flying in a row until it went right over my wife and I head. Just like a humming noise and had 5 to 6 flashing lights in a row very strange.
November 3, 2017 · 3:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Raleigh, NC
While driving on I-40 in Raleigh on Friday, I saw a large square shaped object in the sky. At first I thought it was an airplane with a banner, but it was too big to be a banner. It looked almost like a Borg cube from ST, with an airplane in close proximity, but both seemed to just vanish. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 3, 2017 · 3:40 AM · RECTANGLE
Raleigh, NC
When driving west on 64 towards Raleigh, saw large cube floating north over the city. I couldn't get a picture bc I was moving in traffic which was frustrating bc it wasn’t moving too quickly. It was like a square parade balloon got loose and instead of floating up it floated straight. Figured it would be in the news, but wasn’t. Came here and thankfully found a similar report.