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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 28, 2016 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Black Mountain, NC
I am a retired community college instructor with an engineering background. I have an interest in astronomy and have built several telescopes. From 9 pm till 9; 15, I watched a very bright light (brighter than any star or planet) shimmer and vibrating low in the western sky. I live 30 miles east of Asheville. It never changed position and finally set with the surrounding stars beyond the horizon. I am an amateur astronomer and have never seen any star or planet this bright. The light flickered and shimmered but the surrounding stars did not. It was a very clear calm night, no moon, with the Milky Way quite bright. Associated with this light were smaller red, green, and blue lights that detached themselves slightly at times, The little lights seemed to blink very fast (faster than aircraft lights). The phenomenon seemed to be very far away and beyond the distant mountains a mile distant. It was unlike any light I have ever seen in the sky. It was unlikely to have been aircraft landing lights because it was stationary for over 15 minutes. As it set with the surrounding stars, I watched it through binoculars and it did not move in relation to the horizon. Even with the glasses, I could see no physical object but I clearly saw sparking, shimmering, and smaller flashes of color (almost as if it was emitting sparks). It set with the stars without changing its position with them. Note; Venus and mars had also set in the west, just after sunset (hours earlier). There were no other bright stars in the low western sky at the time of the sighting. It was a clear calm night. I live far out of town in a rural area (I cannot see any other lights or houses from my home). I enjoy a great unhindered view of the night sky. I have never seen a UFO before.
September 26, 2016 · 5:40 PM · RECTANGLE
Walkertown, NC
Sitting at a traffic light on the way home from work. Sky was dark due to pending storm. There is an area of light break in the sky and there as a moving/dancing clear square in that lighter area of the sky. Moving up and down but twisting. Then it disappeared. Lasted but a min. or two. Just thought someone should know. It was very unusual.
September 21, 2016 · 10:14 PM · UNKNOWN
Mebane, NC
I wish to submit a report even though I did not see nor suspect I may have heard a UAP. The purpose of my submission is to serve as additional evidence in the event anyone else submits a report from my area. At 22:14 I heard a deep rumble of what may have been a low flying jet. The ceiling was low due to rain clouds. This also prevented any visual confirmation. The sound was loud and intense. I judge that based on how long it took, it must have been a slow craft. At 22:15 I heard a second, higher pitched craft approaching in the same direction from magnetic west to east. The second sound overtook the first and passed it. I make this judgement based on the doppler effect. At 22:16, the doppler effect of the second craft fades below my ability to hear it. However, the first rumble is still loud. Based on the doppler effect, I can determine that it has passed overhead. At 22:18 the initial deep rumble fades below my ability to hear it. As I stated before, I submit this in support of any other possible reports you may receive related to tonight from my area. I have no confirmation of this being anything more than rerouted air traffic. I generally don't see or hear low flying aircraft overhead unless they are military helicopters.
September 19, 2016 · 9:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Charlotte, NC
I see a Blue light coming out of object.It was travelling very fast like a flash. It disappeared in to clouds in few seconds.
September 16, 2016 · 9:00 PM · CHANGING
Richlands, NC
Large triangle shape change to a hamburger bun shaped. Red yellow green surrounding lights bright flashing.tiny white lit objects flew out and awy from it. In the western sky
September 16, 2016 · 4:30 AM · OTHER
Belmont, NC
As my wife and I were walking our dog a black mass (thought it was a bird at first) caught my attention south west of downtown Belmont. The mass seemed to appear out of nowhere and hovered for a moment but then proceeded to travel in a southeast direction making no noise. At first, I thought this may have been a bird but there was no flapping of wings as it progressed further in its travel. Unsure of what this thing was other than unidentified.
September 14, 2016 · 2:30 AM · OTHER
Lewisville, NC
Viewed a stationary and vertically positioned hexagonal shaped series of round white lights creating its shape. Judging the size I'd have to say larger due to estimated distance and elevation. No sound was heard from my home bedroom, and after approximately (2.0) minutes it arced to its left and descended very slowly to disappear behind several stands of distant tree lines. Did remind myself the extensive Jade Helm military operation was coming to an end, but this "object" was percieved as real and not a traditional aircraft. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
September 13, 2016 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Wilmington, NC
Saw orange-red circles/ovals that were appearing and then disappearing. One would appear and then another one, and then another one. They would appear and then disappear. At first the lights were clumped together, then they almost made an "S" shape. After about 5-10 minutes they appeared again but more spread out. Three of them made a diagagonal line, and there were two on the opposite side. I continued to wait for more lights, but they did not come back.
September 13, 2016 · 9:30 PM · OTHER
Carolina Beach, NC
Sept 13, 2016, Carolina Beach, NC. My friend and I witnessed multi-colored lights over the ocean. Sometimes in a straight line then diagonal. Red, blue, green and white lights in a row would hover for a few seconds then disappear or to reappear a few miles away. It happened 3 times then they was gone. Could not seen any air crafts just lights since is was nighttime.
September 13, 2016 · 9:20 PM · FORMATION
Atlantic Beach, NC
We were outside talking and saw a light. I asked my friend what it was then two appeared. They would blink on then wait several minutes blink off. They then leap frogged over each other. Then all of a sudden several appeared in succession out of the blue. Then moved like a caterpillar in the sky. Blinked on and off moved back into two visible then zipped off. We walked across the street to the beach and ran into a group of people who had seen the same thing. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 13, 2016 · 9:00 PM
Kure Beach, NC
First we saw a orange/gold light and then almost like a string of lights they appeared from left to right. In a course of about 1/2 hour we saw this happen a few times. The lights appeared randomly sometimes just 1 and sometimes all 6. The spacing between the lights changed. First time we observed were close and next they were farther apart. We did not hear any sounds with the lights.
September 13, 2016 · 12:43 PM · CIRCLE
Emerald isl, NC
To the north east i seen one orange dot split in to 2 then 3, 4, 5, 6. Happend again. then in the south east did the same thing each lighg lastd about 30 sec and always split in to more, after about 30 min of lookong at the sky, it happend about 4 times in total. Looked almost like flars being placed out of a plane to discuage heat seaking misales. Btw im bad at spelling..
September 11, 2016 · 3:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Charlotte, NC
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 8, 2016 · 6:30 PM · FIREBALL
Erwin, NC
Bright white light falling extremely fast from atmosphere to the ground approximately in the area of Four Iaks to Smithfield, NC. No sound, spear of burning light with a tail, estimate object size 50 ft across with 80 ft tail
September 8, 2016 · 6:15 PM · TEARDROP
Fayetteville, NC
While taking batting practice, a friend and I were sitting on a bench facing east when we saw a very bright silver looking light or object falling in the sky at an very high speed. We saw it in the open sky and followed its progress down behind trees. It had the shape of an elongated water drop. The tail of the light was not very long. Once it was out of our sight, we waited for an explosion, but it didn’t happen. I don’t know if it was a meteorite or falling space debris or what it was, but it either fell into the ocean, or it was just passing by earth. It happened very quickly, and the object looked big. At first, I thought it was a big passenger plane, but it was moving way too fast for an airplane of any kind. The whole event probably lasted 3 – 5 seconds.
September 8, 2016 · 6:06 PM · CIRCLE
Raleigh, NC
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 8, 2016 · 6:00 PM · TEARDROP
Durham, NC
Near RDU airport, while driving, I saw something cone/teardrop shaped and on fire falling from the sky. It disappeared behind the trees in the distance. I thought a small plane was crashing, but it was way too small for that. My son thought it might be a meteor. I even opened my window to try and hear or smell something. I've never seen anything like it.
September 8, 2016 · 5:55 PM · FIREBALL
Wake Forest, NC
Pulling in my driveway, my daughter pointed it out, super fast, crossed sky in a few seconds heading East. Appeared to be crashing to Earth.
September 8, 2016 · 5:50 PM · LIGHT
Raleigh, NC
I seen a orange looking light, at a low altitude, moved extremely fast in the sky.
September 8, 2016 · 5:00 PM · CIRCLE
Mebane, NC
2 round bright white spheres together side by side appeared to be free falling at a high rate of speed that looked like the back of a twin engine fighter jet but with no wings or body of a plane visible and very clearly in daylight looked like 2 jet engines burning and connected together. I braced thinking an explosion was enevitable. Then it stopped, stayed monentarily still and bing accelerated and gone very fast....like 1000mph and gone. There was a size of a thread stream of flames between the shape of 2 quarters as the object was falling. It seemed to be a mile or 2 miles away and fell about a mile down to the horizon before stopping monetarily and then bing, accelerating and gone. I rolled my paasenger window down going 65 mph on I-40 east and approached up next to driver beside me in the next lane over and asked him if he saw it and he said yes and held his arms up and had no idea what it was either but saw the same thing as I saw. I spun my finger in! a circle signaling a UFO flying saucer and he shook his head and nodded yes and then held his arms up saying I don.t know what else it could be. If it was a top secret plane of some sort it was like nothing I would think a human could withstand the force that would be generated by the falling, stopping, hovering and then flying off...then out of sight. It did not disappear...it flew out of sight.
September 7, 2016 · 10:41 PM · CIRCLE
Franklin, NC
this object was to the west north west of home at altitude (guessing )1500' to 2500' . was circle , with alternating lights mostly red , orange ...like a fire ,and smaller white lights . all lights were intensely bright , brighter than any star in sky . it was almost motionless but was slowly moving up 2 degrees and same downward . then it would move slowly 3 degrees to west . A aircraft to the west 7 to 10 degrees and minimum 2000' above object flew above and to left of object and no response from object . distance from me i cannot really judge but index finger would not cover object but my thumb would , hope that helps . I watched it for about a minute and then called my 28 yr old son to look at object an tell me what he saw ....he was flabbergasted because he said ..daddy , that's no star or plane and we watched it for about 5 minutes more . i turned to him and asked ..where did it go ? do you still see it ? he said no and we both concurred that either th! e object just cut all lights off or it took off too fast for our eyes . this is as detailed as i can get . thank you
September 6, 2016 · 3:30 PM · DISK
Asheboro, NC
2 oblong discs were floating. They were bright white and moving very loud and there was no sound. The were low in altitude and flying very close together. They disappeared.
September 5, 2016 · 9:35 AM · SPHERE
Wake Forest, NC
The sphere or disc moved from North to South at a speed too fast for a ballon. It had a gold/bronze color. There was no sound or vapor trail emitted. The speed it moved was comparable to what I recall as a commercial jet; however it did not have the shape or color of commercial jets. A few minutes later a commercial jet passed over head with the normal sound being emitted. What I saw earlier was not a commercial aircraft. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 1, 2016 · 5:29 AM · LIGHT
Vale, NC
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD