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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 20, 2017 · 10:30 PM · OTHER
Chadbourn, NC
Traveling on Braswell Road at 10:30ish ((p.m.)), it was very dark, over treetops seen lime green rectangular shape flash then flash again in sequence very quickly. Lost sight due to trees for a second continued looking and the lights were gone. I can not come up with an explanation of what I seen. I will never forget.
September 19, 2017 · 7:35 PM · RECTANGLE
Durham, NC
I thought it might be a flock of large birds, but objects had hard lines – rectangular plus more. Very odd.
September 18, 2017 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Burlington, NC
Witnessed a blinking light that moved very fast. Flashes from white to blue to pink for approximately 20 minutes then it disappears. I have two videos I recorded of the event. I can't explain what I saw; maybe someone can.
September 14, 2017 · 11:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Hubert, NC
I was outside with my mother inlaw and husband. My husband and I were looking at the stars. I heard a thud noise. I turned around and looked over where the top of my mother inlaw's house. I saw 4 pinkish red lights in a line not that far from each other. The one at the top had little white lights drop from under it. I heard the thud noise again and 3 of them moved down. I couldn't see them anymore. The last one dropped some of those white lights and also moved down. After that I could not see them anymore.
September 13, 2017 · 6:12 AM · TRIANGLE
Charlotte, NC
My son was outside waiting for his school bus to come and he called me and said “Mommy, remember the thing we saw last year on July 4th? Well, it’s outside again." I was in shock, and immediately told him that I was going to look outside from my bedroom window to see if I can see it. I saw it and told him I was going to call him back, since I had to record it on my phone. I looked and saw the orange orbs. It was getting brighter, then it would fade, then reappear. I saw it was getting closer to where I saw an outline of a triangle and I started to get scared because this was the closest I have seen it and I do not want to see it that close because it creeps me out. I had to get ready for work so I had to stop looking outside. I went back to look out the window and it was back again. Outside was getting lighter and I saw it and recorded it. I recorded it 3 separate times on my phone. This is the second time we have seen this in our neighborhood. We have not received the photos, and have no means of contacting the witness, since she provides no contact, or personal, information. PD
September 13, 2017 · 5:38 AM · TRIANGLE
Fort Bragg (close to), NC
My husband blew it off like it was something new from the military and said it was cool. I watched the object until I could no longer see it in my mirrors. It never moved. Just hovered. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 10, 2017 · 5:13 PM · DISK
Goldsboro, NC
Checked my trail camera one day after this picture was taken. After words my buddy, his girl friend and I were all puzzled asking questions like: Could this be a pixilation? So far out of the cameras sensitivity range (50 feet) how was the picture triggered? (Object appears to be 70-80 yards away) Why was the clocked stopped?. I feel like a seasoned outdoorsmen, but I've to make since of this picture, I'm still timid to hunt this area since the pic, please help. Object in photo is very strange, but we are unable to certify that it has anything to do with an alien spacecraft. The top of the object is the general shape of a quadcopter, we observe, but we cannot explain the "legs" that appear below the object. PD
September 5, 2017 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Matthews, NC
It then moved 90 degrees south again and stopped. We all agreed that this is totally bizarre as the light didn't blink and remained solid red the whole time. Someone mentioned that it is probably a drone, but I have no idea how to determine if any drones were in the air at that time. The light would have been over Indian Trail or maybe further west/south.
September 3, 2017 · 4:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Lumberton, NC
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 30, 2017 · 1:00 AM
Chapel Hill, NC
I've been watching documentaries on UFOs and I had a weird thought to request a visit. My dog started barking unexpectedly and I didn't know why. I went to sleep and woke up to this on my window. It looks like something pressing a face against the window. It wasn't me and the pressing is on the outside of the window.
August 24, 2017 · 2:00 AM · FLASH
Charlotte, NC
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 23, 2017 · 2:30 PM · LIGHT
Asheville, NC
I was filming some clouds and noticed the ‘object’ when I was watching it later. I was no where near glass or windows- way out to n the lot. I don’t know, it’s probably some bird, but I thought I’d send it in.
August 21, 2017 · 2:52 PM · LIGHT
New Bern, NC
Afterwards, I had looked up online to see if anyone else had seen it and sure enough, there are pictures and videos of the same thing that I had witnessed.
August 19, 2017 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Lake Wiley, NC
I was sitting fishing on our dock, and my little brother said, "did you see that" he had just seen as what he described as a fireball flying over his head, that suddenly disappeared. Then about ten minutes later I saw the same thing. It was like a fireball with futuristic tiles on it so it looked like the fire was a camp or a disguise as a meteor. I saw it, but where the last one disappeared, and then it was gone.
August 12, 2017 · 11:03 AM · TRIANGLE
Oakboro, NC
About an hour after that we all witnessed one come down absolutely silent and shine a light in our yard and then multiple colored lights in the area of our dogs..strange!!1
August 5, 2017 · 10:20 PM · CIRCLE
Louisburg, NC
I witnessned many UFOs 1 large, and about 20 small. They would light up then go out. Repeatesly. I took video of the event. The witness is known to us, and is former military. He has submitted at least one other credible report of a sighting he had while serving aboard a USCG vessel. He has offered to forward video of this sighting PD
August 4, 2017 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Greensboro, NC
There is a large sphere beside the moon tonight, as I look through my iPhone camera and video, but it can't be seen with naked eye...zooming in it is not a reflection or lenses failure, it's a separate object...have pictures and a video from different angles.
August 1, 2017 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Waxhaw, NC
Hello, my name is ((name deleted)) but you can call me Mitch. I’m writing this years after my sighting. I don’t think I could give you en exact date but it was definitely night time probably between 8 and 11pm and I was deep in Waxhaw, NC driving with 2 of my friends back to his house. We saw 6 or 8 massive circles in the sky I mean a probably the size of several navy ships each. Basically I know for a fact no vehicle of that size has ever been created. But that’s not even the part that made me think it was for sure aliens. They were swarming in circles around each other like angry bees. It didn’t look like physical objects it was like bright but kind of see thru balls of white light. I think it was cloudy and it started to rain. We drove all the way from downtown waxhaw to like 30 mins into the woods and I swear it followed us because when we got to the house we ran inside and got his mom and little brother to come outside and look at it so we didn’t think we were crazy and THEY SAW IT TOO. A total of 6 witnesses saw this and I am not even friends with them anymore. I don’t like them they don’t like me and I garuntee our stories will match. One of the guys I was with was even crying and he gang bangs. I swear on everything what I saw wasn’t from earth unless someone had 8 spotlights that swarmed and followed us for 30 mins. I don’t see that being possible. I am 21 now and I was probably 17 at the time. I wrote this because I just wanted to tell someone as nasa directed me to. I am pretty sure I took pictures and videos but It’s kind of a blur to me and even if I did I’ve switched phones several times since then and lost all data on them.
July 31, 2017 · 1:00 AM · CIGAR
Fayetteville, NC
Standing in my driveway at 1am looked up over my neighbors house over the trees I saw a cigar-shaped thing with 3 lights hovering silently, it came from behind the trees. I saw it hovering in full over the street for maybe 5 seconds, direct eye contact. Then it just went from 0mph-warped speed, and varnished.
July 30, 2017 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Pikeville, NC
I was first alerted by my wife at 4am who noticed a bright white light that appeared artificial in the shape of a circle or tear drop, it did not twinkle or look anything like a star or planet and was definitely not a plane or helicopter. It stayed in one spot for. Close to an hour and then appeared to gradually slip away. This object was very noticeable and as I said appeared to be artificial light such as from a craft not anything like a star or otherwise.
July 29, 2017 · 11:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Lexington, NC
Within five minutes, I saw two helicopters, and quite a few planes (way more than normal), head into the same direction the craft or object disappeared
July 26, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Weaverville, NC
At 10 pm on this moonless night full of stars, I went out on my 2nd story deck looking NE towards a large dark mountain in the distance. (We live in the country and there are no visible houses or lights in this direction.) I first noticed 3 large sparkling red lights. I assumed they were stars - all in a vertical row in front of this mountain in the valley. They were not moving but glowing very red. I called my boyfriend to come look. We noticed two more red lights rise up behind the trees together side-by-side to a 4th position in the line with one then dropping into a 5th position. A 6th red light appears at the bottom just over the trees at the end of this vertical line. Red light number 1 seems to be getting smaller – but does not seem to be moving. Then it disappears, and the line moves upward. #2 then disappears, and then # 3 disappears. A bright red light appears briefly over to the left then also disappears. During this viewing time – maybe 10 -12 minutes – some of the red sparkling lights disappear and then reappear in the same position. They all appear to be hovering in this valley within a few miles of us. As the other lights just blinked out, the top red light starts to move away to the upper right and gets smaller and smaller, until it is just a dot as if flying away. It doesn’t just blink out like the others.
July 24, 2017 · 9:09 PM · LIGHT
Cornelius, NC
Single white light moving across the sky heading north from the Lake Norman region. No sound, swayed from side to side a little bit. Moving too fast to be a Chinese wish lantern, and to slow to be a aircraft. I see a lot of plane activity over Lake Norman, but this was very strange, very strange indeed. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 24, 2017 · 3:00 AM · CIRCLE
Epsom, NC
It was north of me, stationary at first. It began moving from the left to the right and stop directly in front of my porch. I held of the V for Victory and the Brite Flash once off again. After one or two minutes, it began to move again. It continue with the softer flashes, intermittently. While moving to my right, south East for the aircraft. It paused for about 3 or minutes. Then continued on. It stop flashing but I could clearly see it until the craft it went out of site. I did 2 a 2nd one right after, I thought it was a airliner, since it was a light with a red aircraft warning light I commonly see at night. I wanted to believe and do believe this was man made, hoping at least. Told myself it was. Unless it was a drone, it had to be about 8 thousand feet, if it was the size of a Black Hawk, or Huey Helicopters. It could have been higher or lower, just my best guess. I have jumped out of both and I have jumped at night. This event lasted about 20 to 30 minutes.