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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 2, 2017 · 5:32 PM · TRIANGLE
Manassas, NC
I was on a job site next to the railroad in Manassas, VA. I was looking up at a clear sky watching passing planes, when I noticed a dark triangular aircraft hovering in the sky. It stood out to me because the other aircrafts were moving along in a normal fashion. This triangular vessel was mostly stationary and only hovered occasionally from side to side. Four other workers witnessed this with me. After about ten minutes the aircraft was gone. It left no chem trail and was silent. I do have pictures of the object I witnessed.
October 30, 2017 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Charlotte, NC
It appeared to be a bright star that was noticed while taking the dog out. An airplane caught our eye and led our sights to a bright light that seemed to be an airplane, but moving erratically. It moved up and down in a graceful movement bet then would go side to side in a jerking movement. It was seen with just the naked eye and it seemed to have some colored lights. Occasionally one witness saw what appeared to be some white streaking light beams in thin lines around it but the other two witnesses did not see that. It was cold out so we did not stay out long. We looked on an app called sky view and it seemed to be in the vicinity of Taurus and the Pleides seven sisters stars.
October 30, 2017 · 9:29 AM · DISK
Matthews, NC
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 26, 2017 · 8:16 PM · OVAL
Clayton, NC
The craft was about the size of a small plane, but it had no wings or rigid shape. The craft was dark in color with two large round infrared looking light in front of it (like the headlights on a car) The craft passed very slowly over us around 200 feet in the air, and it made a slight humming sound. When the craft passed over us there were no lights whatsoever to be seen under, around, or behind it. There were just the the two round light in front. The craft had no tail.
October 26, 2017 · 5:25 PM · CIGAR
Randleman, NC
We were riding in SUV returning from Walmart and were on a very dark, back country road. Sky was bright with a half moon visible. Not very cloudy. Just moved from left to right very very quickly...white light only...came into view and then left as fast as it appeared...much to fast to be a jet plane, parallel to horizon and would not have been a falling star or comet...VERY BRIGHT and VERY FAST I am 57, my son is 25 and his girlfriend is 23. All saw the same thing and I have NEVER witnessed anything like it in my life. A totally unique experience. Strange indeed.
October 25, 2017 · 1:55 AM · DIAMOND
Black Creek, NC
I witnessed something strange at 1:55 AM Eastern time on Wednesday, October 25, 2017 in Black Creek, North Carolina, my hometown. In the eastern/northeastern sky as I was just about a mile northwest of town driving into it on US Highway 117, I saw two bright white flashes out of the corner of my eye. It looked almost like a strobe from a cell phone tower, but there isn’t a tower near where I saw this. And unfortunately, I only saw this in my peripheral vision, but I could tell it came from my left, from the east. It was too bright to be a cell tower anyhow; it immediately grabbed my attention. I kept staring off to the east while trying to keep my eyes on the road at the same time. I got a good look at what happened next. This was in a slightly different area of the sky; the strobe lights looked maybe a little north of east, but this was due east. It looked like a firework, the white ball type that explode into orange sparks and aren’t really pretty but just make a lot of noise. I saw one just above the treeline, but I could tell it was distant, not coming from town, which I was approaching. There was no sound and my window was partway down; the radio was on Coast To Coast but it wasn’t too loud. A firework surely would have made sound and this was a ways away. It was just barely above the treeline, sort of like seeing lightning in a thunderhead miles away. There were no storms on the radar and not a cloud in the sky, though, nor did this look like any kind of storm. My thought was that if this were a firework, I shouldn’t have been able to see it for as ! far away as I appeared to be from it. Also, as I stated, it was in a different part of the sky from the first flashes. The oddest part of what I saw was that the sparks that were left upon the disappearance of the white ball seemed to form some type of ring, not a solid cloud of orange sparks. There was some type of object obscuring the cloud of sparks leaving the outer fringes visible. The obstruction looked like a thunderhead, but far too low in the sky. It was shaped kind of like the crown of a diamond, again just barely above the trees. It disappeared rapidly when the sparks faded, and my town was quiet when I came home, and I saw nothing else amiss. I have never seen anything like it in my life and was never really a deep believer in UFOs. I really want to learn if anyone else saw this late Tuesday night/very early Wednesday morning, or has ever seen anything like this before. The best description would be those ugly loud fireworks, but so much of it doesn’t make sense. It was quiet and too far away, so what I saw had to be good-sized. And who really shoots off fireworks at two in the morning? In my small town, that will draw out the cops! Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is about twenty miles south of me; was this some kind of elaborate war game or something? I just know it scared me a bit. It sounds atypical of reports I’ve heard Mr. Davenport read on-air (I listen often but not always, as much as I can). I just really want to know if anyone else has ever seen this, or this particular thing I saw.
October 24, 2017 · 8:45 PM · OTHER
Hillsborough, NC
Flying very slowly in the Southern sky near the Aquarius constellation were a total of 4 large red lights in an "L" formation. 3 vertical with 1 to the side. It appeared to be very, very large and to be one craft that blocked the stars behind it. It flew very slow, silently and the lights blinked in no particular order randomly and without pattern. The round lights were very large. Suddenly a white light, like a vertical beam appeared below the single red light that was off to the side and the entire craft slowly dropped below the tree line and was gone.
October 22, 2017 · 7:20 PM · OVAL
Hope Mills, NC
Looked up and saw 3 orange lights/orbs in a triangular formation, not a perfect triangle though. There were 4 more off to the left, no particular formation, possibly another one to the right, not sure because of the trees. They were all moving slowly and vertically. Was in my car and had I had my window down. There was no noise. There were no other lights, like flickering light you see on planes. I got home and grabbed my camera but they had disappeared by then. Completely gone. I turned and faced my house and saw another one. It was moving horizontally this time. It was going slow at first, then went really fast and disappeared.
October 22, 2017 · 7:06 PM
Hope Mills, NC
Orange light orbs flying through sky with no sound. Going from east to west. No stars where noticeable at the time only afterwards. Circular in shape and appeared to be moving in a formation or arrow shaped with breaks in between approximately 20-35 seen.
October 21, 2017 · 9:31 PM · TRIANGLE
Winston-Salem, NC
It had gradations of color so that the innermost edges were whiter. The outermost edges were a more intense lime green and emitted a long starburst glare effect at the 3 corners and shorter spikes at the side of the triangle. The object or light held a perfectly fixed position, then suddenly swooped down and left at about a 30 degree path in a perfectly straight line. Then it stopped and vanished well before reaching the horizon. The whole event took less than 2 seconds but I was in the perfect position to witness it. My ((deleted--twenties)) year old son was in the front passenger seat and also saw it. He was on a break from ((deleted--graduate)) school. He was reaching forward and tuning the radio and gasped, “What was that!” But since he wasn’t already focused at the distance, like I was, I don’t think he saw it as clearly. To him, the light was more roundish and he didn’t see it as triangular. But he didn’t have his glasses on and his vision is only 20/30, so that made sense to me. I’ve never witnessed anything that I believed was a UFO or ever made a report before. But as soon as I saw this, I knew immediately it was unexplainable, and I had just witnessed something I never thought I’d see for myself. I’m ((50's plus)) y/o retired Air Force ((rank deleted)) living in NC for the past ((deleted--10+)) years.
October 18, 2017 · 9:40 PM · TEARDROP
Waxhaw, NC
Descent was slow: 5 seconds, before obstructed by trees on horizon. No sound. No reports on local community Facebook groups. Very close to small corporate airport. Planes seen in area. Was weirdest thing. Was I the only one?
October 17, 2017 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Browns Summit, NC
Approximately 12 orangish and yellow balls, almost looking as if balls of fire were floating in the sky, they were not as high as the stars above, yet were in formation almost as if they were a constellation of some sort, but they did not at first appear to be moving, as if they all were just there floating. Then slowly they began to form closer clusters of three and four together, slowly they began to fade. When there was only three left, it were as of one just disappeared as the rest then the last two gravitated towards each other and then became only one. Never once did they get larger, yet appeared to just combine and slowly the last one just faded away.
October 15, 2017 · 11:18 PM · OTHER
Greensboro, NC
I was driving towards town from the Kivett/Old Randelman area and first I saw a yellow/orange light that went across the sky from right to left but I was sure it wasn't a shooting star because of the speed and the fact that it almost looked like it appeared from a different dimension and disappeared within 4 seconds. Within a minute I was still driving in the same directions and I actually slowed down to keep focus on the road and sky back and forth and sure enough another light came to my sight, except this time it came from top to bottom and it was white for about 80% of the time, then as it looked like it got close to crashing or hitting ground, it turned into a few different hues of green and then yellow/white and it looked like it dissipated or hit water because there was no explosion or light where I expected to see it light up.
October 15, 2017 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Hickory, NC
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 14, 2017 · 9:19 PM · SPHERE
Franklin, NC
Very bright, low flying orb
October 13, 2017 · 7:30 PM · FIREBALL
Knightdale, NC
I was driving down the road in the evening and I saw four stationary fireball yellowish white lights high up in the sky. I also saw a plane driving by. Suddenly, 2 of the balls of light swooped down and the other two began to zigzag. When the fire ball lights moved they produced a tail behind them. It looked sort of like a metiroid. However, unlike a metiroid, the balls of light that swooped down changed direction and then skirted horizontally across the sky. When they were on the other side of the road still high in the sky the lights stopped moving. The tree line covered up the stationary light as I was driving and I did not see anything else. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 3, 2017 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Nakina, NC
Over the course of the last couple of weeks my boyfriend had been telling me to come look outside. I finally did the last time. And it happened again tonight. Tonight was even better. I could actually see what he was describing last time. So, there is this light that has been visiting our area that we cannot reason what it could be logically anything man made. The light has been seen at least 8 times by him and twice by me. The "light craft" hovers and then does zigzag formations, but never descends (as if a plane was landing). It's always at night when we see it, and then "light craft" stays for a while. Also, we have notice it happens that we see the craft after important/horrifying events for example the deadly mass shooting last night and now tonight. I think they are watching us.
September 29, 2017 · 4:00 PM · CIGAR
Lenoir, NC
It was a white cigar shaped craft you could clearly see it had no wings. There were just one of them. Also, it made no noise no after boom or whatever, was completely quiet outside first time seeing anything like it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 28, 2017 · 9:00 PM · CYLINDER
Charlotte, NC
Observed what I thought was a drone, or satellite, 9/26, 9/27, 9/28 of this week. I started taking pictures and the object would move as I was taking the the shots in fast short movements, almost triangle pattern. The object had lights that would come on and off when another aircraft flew nearby. When I started to review my pics, I have a green bar or laser coming down from object in distance in one shot, and in others when object right over head the green light is focused on me. The object has been over our house all week includingl last night. I have pictures and video and need someone to help explain this. I made my wife and our 14 son come out and see last night..they noticed it turn lights out when commercial plane came close
September 27, 2017 · 7:28 AM · CIGAR
Raleigh, NC
I was boredly watching the sky, waiting for the bus. The sky was only a patch, not a big open area. Since I'm an astronomy lover, I thought to myself, "What if I saw a UFO?". I had seen an assumed UFO two years back, but it didn't look anything like this one. Anyways, I suddenly noticed this one white, shortish cigar object flying across the patch of sky slightly faster than a plane. The other people around were busy socializing. I narrowed my eyes, hearing my heart thump in my chest as I grew more excited. I grabbed my phone, and the cigar-shaped object was almost out of view. I opened my camera as fast as I could, but it was too late, as the object had already flown out of view. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 25, 2017 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Granite Falls, NC
While waiting on a friend to leave, I was watching the northern sky, as we had been star gazing all evening. I was alone, focusing on a star, when a single, small, orange light began to move horizontally. With the movement, I could tell that the light was somewhat close and thought it may be a reflection on a spider's web. This was until the light started moving up and down, left and right, very erratically, but not all over the sky. It stayed within a small area in the sky. I then thought it may be a drone. I watched it intently, by myself, for about 10 mins., move around. It never blinked or flickered once. The orange-ish light looked similar to fire, not electrical or gassy. It almost had a little haze around the orb. The size was small, comparable to the size of a large star. My friend then comes out to leave, I tell her to watch, and she sees it, too. It lasted a couple of more minutes until vanishing. It just dissipated, like the fire had gone out. I did feel an overwhelming sense, it brought me to tears, and I was covered in chills. I've been a star gazer my entire life, even seeing two shooting stars earlier that night. Never have I seen or experienced anything like this.
September 24, 2017 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Mount Holly, NC
Our background: My apologies for the long report, but these things seemed to be related from our perspective. I am a Business Analyst, age 47, from the United States, and I have lived in this area of NC most of my life while working in South America, Europe and the United States. I worked in Lima Peru from 1998-2000, where I met my wife. She is also 47, and she left her profession as a Human Resources manager for the Peruvian government to come live with me here in 2015. My education is in Business Administration and hers is in Art History and Contract Law. We both became amateur archaeologists while living in and visiting Peru over the years, so we have seen numerous unexplained things in our lives, mostly surrounding ancient ruins and paranormal activity associated with them. We have separately seen UFOs once or twice in our lives, excluding one event at Lake Titicaca in Puno, Peru, where we discovered that a UFO was captured in one of our photographs near some pre-Incan ruins close to the Bolivian border. It was just a silver sphere in the background, over a small lake. When she came to live with me here in 2015 we had a short period of odd events in and around our home, mostly paranormal in nature. We tend to shrug off things like that as we are somewhat accustomed to it, but we did have one event while remodeling the house. An unseen force moved rapidly through our home while we were sleeping on our living room floor, waking us, disturbing papers and knocking over several boxes and objects around our home. We adopted a cat in 2016 who also reacted to unseen things in our home, but such activity seems to have ceased, mostly, since January of 2017. In January of 2017 we had a series of unexplained explosions or booming sounds in our area which are well documented online and by local authorities. The last one that we recall was January 19, 2017 when a huge fireball streamed over our area accompanied by a violent sonic boom that shook the entire area. This is also well documented in the media and online. Our ‘UFO’ Sighting on September 24, 2017: About 18:00, we were at my parents’ home at Lake Norman, NC. My mother and I took her dog out for a walk and noticed three passenger jets overhead. The sky was clear and blue. Two of the jets had heavy parallel contrails and one had none. We didn’t notice additional planes but more contrails appeared within minutes, perpendicular to the others. Within 15 minutes, the entire sky had become overcast with clouds that seemed to build from the contrails. The clouds were unusual in shape, having a sort of saw-tooth appearance. We joked about “chemtrails” a bit and went back into the house. My wife and I left to go home about 20:10. While travelling on Highway 16 East from Lake Norman to Mount Holly, about 20:40, we noticed an evenly spaced line of 4 bright yellow-orange lights with a larger similar light above them, in the direction of Charlotte, NC. We initially thought they were helicopters or planes, but a passing jet overhead looked completely different and had flashing lights. The formation we saw was not blinking and apparently did not move. I used my cell phone to call my mother and asked if there were any reports of an emergency or other activity in Charlotte, and she replied that she hadn’t seen anything on the news. I noted that my phone had an 81% charge after the call. My wife attempted to photograph the lights but the image was very washed out on her phone due to headlights from oncoming traffic. Approaching the junction of Highway 273 we noticed flashing yellow warning lights had been placed on both sides of Highway 16 for some reason, as if there was a hazard in the road ahead. Turning onto Highway 273 South toward Mount Holly we noticed several cars parked on the side of Highway 16 with no lights, maybe abandoned. Shortly after turning onto Highway 273, we lost sight of the lights due to trees obstructing our view, but both of our cell phones went dead and street lights went out for about ¼ mile around us. We both noticed a drastic temperature change and we became very warm in the car even with the a/c on. We arrived at our home about 10 minutes later and confirmed that both phones had zero charge, and we could not see the lights from our house, again due to trees. I plugged my phone into the charger and called my mother again, but her phone was apparently busy for the next half hour. I learned later that she had not been using the phone, so that remains unexplained. My wife and I discussed the possibility that the parked cars we saw had experienced a similar electrical issue earlier in the evening. We continued to experience hot flashes the rest of the evening in spite of a steady temperature in our home. We both began to feel nauseous around midnight, but it passed. This morning and afternoon (September 25) my wife has been vomiting and I seem to be fine, but we both stayed home as she is preparing to fly to Peru tomorrow to visit our relatives in Lima. My mother encouraged us to report our sighting after we had searched for any news of an event and found nothing. This may have been 5 objects or one really huge triangle with 5 lights. Thank you.
September 23, 2017 · 8:50 PM · UNKNOWN
Liberty, NC
Standing outside, me and my fiancé were talking waiting on kids to come home, when I saw a bright light moving. I thought it was just another airplane, but I didn't hear any noise. He hadn't yet seen it until I moved from the house looking in the sky. We stood there watching it waiting to see the blinking lights of the plane which never showed up. As it was moving at a good speed there was no noise just a bright light. The light got bright as it got over head, we continued watching it and as it went over our house it faded to black. I ran inside to tell Granny, he was still watching for it to see if he could see it. It never showed back up and the was no airplane lights that blinked on it.
September 22, 2017 · 11:45 PM · FIREBALL
Carolina Beach, NC
I was sitting on my back porch last night looking at the stars. It was a clear night with minimal humidity. I live in aa neighborhood that is pitch dark at night. There was.no noise or evidence of any one out and about that time of night. Out the corner of my eye, I noticed an orange/yellowish light. In that moment, a sphere of fiery looking light energy moved quickly down the alley by the back of my house. This fireball moved quickly in a lateral trojectory with no sound approximately 20ft away from where I was sitting and no more than 15ft above the ground. The total event lasted 5 - 8 seconds and disappeared. There was only 1 fireball. A dog in the neighborhood started barking about the time this fireball started to disappear. The fireball was about the size of a large cantaloupe. It startled me and still can't believe what my eyes saw. I went out the next morning and didn't see any evidence of anything burning. I am a medical professional with a Masters degree and post graduate studies.