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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 22, 2015 · 8:15 AM · OTHER
Charlotte, NC
I was flying from Charlotte to Richmond, and had a window seat. It must have been 30 minutes-1 hour out of Charlotte, while flying over a very big lake that looked like a scar in the ground, when I saw it. It was a small white object. It was hovering, and the plane was passing over it. It wasn't a helicopter, and it was just bellow the clouds, so it couldn't have been a commercial drone. It almost looked like a shark. It was white, and had a small tail fin, which went into an oval shaped body with kind of a dark center. From the small oval shape, it looked like a sideways wing was jutting out (like if a plane was flipping left, and the wing was sticking out at an angle). It did not look very big, and I continued to look at it until our plane passed it entirely. It was moving, but very slowly, slower than cloud speed, and it was just sort of hovering there. I would have taken a picture, but my phone was dead, which is ironic timing. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Hi Peter, Yes it was around 8:15-8:30 AM. No one but me saw it (that I'm aware of). I was flying by myself and didn't really want to be that freak in the window seat who was trying to get people to look at the UFO haha. It's amazing to me how many reported sightings there are. Thanks,
July 20, 2015 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Rocky Mount, NC
I was sitting and looking in the sky, and noticed more stars than usual. Friends said that since the planet moves, the stars rotate, so they move every night, but these stars don't. They are brighter than other stars, and one night I saw one move. It was zig zagging across the sky and I know for sure it wasn't a plane or helicopter because they don't move the way this object did it moved back and forth for like 10 min then I kept watching it alone and I saw the light was attached to something big and it moved and disappeared in the darkness but the star it was attached to is still visable. Also today my brother seen something flying over a neighbors house and it was the scariest thing he has ever seen. At first I thought it was only me but know other people are noticing this stuff too I wish we had a good telescope to see what these stars are. I didn't call the hotline because I don't really think this people actually take this stuff serious but if anyone does please feel free to contact me or visit my neighborhood so we can watch together. I'm almost sure you will notice something weird. And just so you guys know its not a satellite or weather balloon ive looked up all options and none make sense. Weather balloons don't flash colors in the sky do they? The colors where white, red, blue, and green. I don't know what my brother saw but this kind of stuff interest me and I would really like to know what these stars are in the sky and what are the things we see flying around. Also lately alot of shooting stars have been around my area. Weird because I've never seen them happen so often. And it happens so fast you don't have time to record or you wouldn't be able to recognize anything from a regular phone camera because its so high in the sky. If you don't believe me oh well, but I would waste my time filling out this stuff if I didn't want to get some logical answers about what me and my friends are seeing.
July 20, 2015 · 12:34 PM · RECTANGLE
Durham, NC
I was driving down the highway when my boyfriend pointed out a silver, almost translucent, object in the sky. It appeared rectangular in shape and was too low flying to have been an airplane, and granted that we are not close enough to the airport for it to have been a plane we are positive it wasn't. My boyfriend continued observing the craft while I had taken my eyes off it to switch lanes,it's during this 5 second period the craft disappeared completely. He stated the craft simply vanished. We were on open highway so there was no way we had lost sight of it and a plane could not simply disappear out of sight entirely in five seconds.
July 20, 2015 · 12:45 AM · TRIANGLE
Hendersonville, NC
I saw 3 bright lights and the they started to dim down. It stayed at one altitude for that amount of time then made a turn and flew off.
July 20, 2015 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Hendersonville, NC
3 lights floating. Went right and disappeared behind tree line. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 16, 2015 · 5:00 PM · CIGAR
Indian Trail, NC
I was feeding my horse and I noticed a long cigar snapped object moving at high altitude. About the time I noticed it I saw two more behind it. These initial 3 were moving relatively fast and were out I my sight in less than a minute. I looked to the left and saw two more craft the same size moving the same speed also at high altitude.one was below the other and I actually got a video of it on my iPhone. It was hard to film because it was daylight and the craft were very far away. I noticed there was no sound from any of these craft and it was unlike the object I saw in 2014 with flashing lights at high altitude .
July 15, 2015 · 7:15 AM · SPHERE
Greensboro, NC
I was outside on my deck this morning and observed a craft approaching from the west, high altitude. A plane going in the opposite direction gave me some perspective on the craft's speed. It was traveling very slowly, and did not travel in a straight line, but rather seemed to meander. It came into my view traveling due East, then as I watched changes to SE and then changed to NE and traveled over my house and out of view. About 3 or 4 minutes later a military plane flying fairly low passed over going NW. The craft I saw appeared to be spherical. There was no sound or vapor trail. Maybe it was a drone? But how high do drones fly? And is it a coincidence that a military plane appeared a few minutes later headed in the general direction I saw the craft headed?
July 10, 2015 · 11:10 PM · CIRCLE
New Bern, NC
My son asked me pick him up from second shift. I left the house and he called my cell phone to say he wasn't ready. My husband was grouchy and sitting next to me in the car. As I was talking to my son I felt a pang in my eyes from an extremely bright light. I looked ahead on the road to see if I needed to dim my headlights for another car but the angle was wrong so I looked up. There was a bright white circle jetting across the sky. It wasn't too close but I could tell it was large. The light did not blink and it moved amazingly fast at a curved angle. I could not distinguish any rotation. There was no trail behind it and I didn't hear any noise. It wasn't any kind of spotlight. I was talking to my son and I pointed to my husband urgently. I asked did you see that light but he hadn't seen me pointing because it was dark. There was complete cloud cover over the road I was traveling. You couldn't see any stars. It was a good bit above the tree line but it had to be flying low enough to be under the cloud cover. I looked in the local paper to see if anyone else had noticed it or written about it but I haven't heard anything. It made me so excited but also made my stomach ache. I know I saw something AMAZING. I was really disappointed my husband didn't see it because I would have liked to share the excitement with him...so I'm sharing it with you guys instead. Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
July 9, 2015 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Oak Island, NC
While sitting on the seashore-facing deck of the beach house where I was vacationing, I saw a group of lights that all appeared to be attached to the same craft, though the craft itself wasn't visible, flying in a very erratic, "humming bird" kind of pattern. There were two red lights that were constantly on, in addition to a pulsating white light that appeared to be almost like a landing or search light, accompanied by a series of blue, violet and green lights that pulsed intermittently. It was completely silent, very bright and would hover at times while following a very erratic, non-linear flight path. It zigged and zagged and eventually flew off after a few minutes. I thought it may have been a drone, but it was absolutely silent and, while it was hard to estimate the size, probably too large to be a drone. At least not like the size of the drones that I've seen for sale to the general public. I'm curious to know if other people witnessed what I saw. I'm a photographer; the other witnesses were a salesman, nurse and doctor of psychology.
July 7, 2015 · 9:48 PM · LIGHT
North Wilkesboro, NC
I spotted what looked to be a satellite approximately 45 degrees above the southern horizon heading north. It had at least a magnitude 1 brightness. It moved so fast I thought it might have been an airplane, but never saw any blinking lights, or change in brightness until it faded away to the north in the hazy sky. I have seen thousands of satellites and all kinds of aircraft in my 40 years of amateur astronomy, but I have never seen a light, satellite, or aircraft move as fast as this light did. It moved too slowly for a meteor, did not leave a trail, and it crossed the entire sky, from south to north, going directly overhead in less than 15 seconds. The speed of the object is what astounds me and boggles my mind.
July 7, 2015 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Raleigh, NC
I was walking my sisters dog around the subdivision when I noticed a bright blue circular light from the corner of my eye. I paid it a little attention because it was the biggest light in the sky and I felt it didn't belong there. As the dog was relieving herself I noticed the object began to move and that's when I pulled out my IPhone and began recording. The sphere then turned red and began moving slowly back the opposite way. It then paused and hovered over the trees and shot straight down behind the trees .
July 4, 2015 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Hickory, NC
Dissipated after about 1 minute. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Monroe, NC
We have amended the time above, and reposted on July 10, 2015. PD
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Greensboro, NC
While watching celebration, I noticed fluorescent green light hovering over the crowd about 500+ ft off ground. Wasn't moving. Just staying still.
July 4, 2015 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
Colfax, NC
On the evening of July 4th, not long after sunset, my girlfriend and I were driving West on Business 40 (we had just passed Interstate 40/Business 40 split) and noticed a bright, glowing orange orb passing in front of us above the tree line at approximately 50-75 ft above the ground, moving in a direction from our left or out of the south, towards our right, or to the north. We both noticed it immediately because both of our eyes were transfixed at the sky because we had just witnessed a lot of fireworks just above the tree tops as we drove out of Greensboro heading towards Winston-Salem, with it being Independence Day. My first thought was that we were viewing a falling ember from an exploded firework cascading down from the sky, however it was quickly evident that this wasn't true because the small craft was clearly flying in a trajectory perpendicular to our vehicle not losing altitude. We were both very intrigued and I quickly looked in my rearview to che! ck for other cars, and slowed down to get a better look. The orange light kind of resembled a flame almost like an oil lamp, with a distinct glowing orb surrounding it. The only thing that I could reasonably think that this small craft could be was a drone, possibly attempting to get views of the evening fireworks, however several factors lead me away from this assumption, because there were no houses or business around the area. It was a darkened and desolate portion of the highway, with trees on both sides and neither myself nor my girlfriend saw any wings or any identifying signs that would lead us to believe it was a manmade drone or craft. Drones typically need the operator to be fairly close, and with no homes or side streets anywhere near the area a drone seems unlikely, especially when it was fully dark and a drone would seemingly have no photographic value in darkness. Both me and my girlfriend were very interested in what we had saw and neither of us could explain! it. There is no possible way it was a firework or ember acting weird or caught in the wind, it was definitely flying. I wish I would have had more time to view the craft and contemplated pulling to the side of the roadway, but more cars were coming up behind us and the vehicle was close to crossing the tree line on the northern side of the road. Neither of us can identify what we saw, albeit briefly.
July 4, 2015 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Greensboro, NC
I was watching the 4th fireworks display from 1/4 of a mile from the origin. I noticed a green light making movements unlike any airplane. It dropped a considerable distance then made a 90 degree right turn. It looked like it was getting a better view of the fireworks. At the finale, it turned from green to bright red, then back to green, and promptly vanished!I tried to videotape it. Although it's impossible to tell what it is to someone who did not witness it, I know (hope) maybe a professional could glean it's presence.
July 4, 2015 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Greensboro, NC
While watching fireworks from Greensboro coliseum, me and my wife saw what we thought was an airplane, until it stopped for a moment, turned right, moved towards the fireworks, then stopped for 5 to 10 minutes. Backed up, went up and down, moved forward, stopped again for 5 minutes or so, then moved away stopping briefly, then going out of sight. All moves were sharp angles. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Stallings, NC
Constant Orange glowing spheres the size of a basketball travelled over the subdivision in straight lines. Elevated off the ground 100 ft in the air with no sound. Each light would disappear in the horizon and another shortly would appear. They travelled around 30 mph . Video was taken of the event. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Greensboro, NC
While watching the fireworks show in Greensboro NC around the Coliseum, I noticed a green orb that appeared to be watching the fireworks as well. It moved in a very unusual way and finally disappeared.
July 4, 2015 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Greensboro, NC
Watched Green light orb travel over the coliseum during the firework show. Hovered over the coliseum for 10 to 15 minutes as if it were observing fireworks. Then sped off towards UNCG. We tried to follow but its speed was unreal.
July 3, 2015 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Nags Head, NC
Three bright red lights seen just north of Jeanette's Pier. Traveling slowly in succession. Equidistant. Lights disappeared one by one. First light, third light, then the second. We have corrected the date above. PD
July 3, 2015 · 2:00 AM · OTHER
Stony Point, NC
It was the night of July 3rd, 2015. My girlfriend and I where winding down from a long afternoon of having people stop by. It was about 2 am, when I decided to go grab something to eat from the local McDonald's where I live. So I headed out. On my way back in, getting closer to my house there is a side road I can turn on, and that takes me to my house (short cut). I have driven this road almost everyday. Apparently on this night I was in for awakening. As I turned left on this road, I continued driving right until I got to the bottom of the curve. There are two cow fields on both sides of this road. While driving I seen a cloak or mirage of color's in the sky. Never seen anything like this before. So I stopped my car and got out to observe what I was seeing. My first thought was, maybe someone is shooting fireworks. (Then I thought about it. It's the night before the 4th of July who would do that). Also, there was not a sound. As I continued looking at the ! merge of colors the whole time all of these colors where moving in the sky side by side. It was moving east to west. As it got closer to where I was standing in the road, I got closer to my car. Feeling uneasy on what it was. All of a sudden, a light cut on in the pitched black sky made three movements like it was looking for something and cut off. After the light cut off in the sky you could see the cloak again continue to move west. I watched it until it completely vanished in the sky. I rushed home. My girlfriend immediately knew something was wrong, when I came in by my body language. My hair was standing up on my arms, and face. I did not want to tell her but I did. Its only been a year, but I remember every day what I seen!!!!!
July 2, 2015 · 9:10 PM · FIREBALL
Midland, NC
Witnessed an unusually bright meteor that may have actually made it to the ground. It was coming straight down 90 degrees from my location. I saw from about a 50 degree inclination all the way down to the horizon. It maintained a dark green glow all the way down. It was still dusk the sky has been very smokey here for the last couple of days and a nearly full moon had just risen just a few degrees from where I saw it. These factors that would made visibility difficult are the reason I felt this would be worth making a note of and at any other time of night this fireball would have been bright enough to cast shadows on the ground.
July 2, 2015 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Winston-Salem, NC
Venus & Jupiter? PD