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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 7, 2022 · 5:37 AM · CIRCLE
Cape Hatteras, NC
Sailing offshore Cape Hatteras early morning November 7. Thinking it must have been some rocket re-entry?
November 6, 2022 · 6:45 PM · CIRCLE
Haw river, NC
Green lights and leaves a trail of green and flew in a circle
November 4, 2022 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Rutherfordton, NC
Me and my retired navy seal husband was admiring the moon and the pretty colors in the clouds in front of the moon, when an alien started planly passing by in the air, as it passed it had a short dark cloud to its left side that as the dark cloud passed the moon, it was not see through, then sticking out of the left end of the dark cloud was a pair of legs that from the pants and shoes indicated a man. His legs seemed frozen in a horrible position. It was extremely disturbing to see the legs sticking out. And as the alien and the legs disappeared after they passed the light of the moon
November 3, 2022 · 1:00 PM · OTHER
Murphy, NC
I was driving W on 64, passenger open and I saw it above the tree line by about 100’. As was watching it, it looked like a shimmering silver football shaped cloud but a little sharper. It was matching my pace (60mph approx.) When it became even more fuzzy and shot off west bound at about 200’ agl to the horizon. I wasn’t going to say anything until I saw this article - pretty much the same thing but I never saw an end view. https://original.newsbreak.com/@roger-marsh-1600525/2857872401975-north-carolina-witness-describes-football-shaped-object-at-tree-line?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=i4 I’m Ex-Navy - I worked on the flight deck of the USS Ranger CV-61 - when I say this thing shot off to the horizon at >400 kn, I’ve seen fly byes, that thing was moving.
October 30, 2022 · 2:13 AM · CYLINDER
Benson, NC
My husband and I were sitting outside and saw a bright/dimming object floating and appeared to be spinning and swaying back and forth in a short movement. The object would change from very bright to very dim. It appeared to have at times another light source surrounding it and a very large haze as well. It appeared to come closer and then move back at which case it would get brighter or more dim. It would almost look like it had disappeared but then return very bright and then do the same motion again. It did not remain stationary throughout this whole sighting. We also saw several what appeared to be shooting stars radiate just south of the object. It disappeared at 2:38am.
October 28, 2022 · 7:49 PM · DISK
Rutherfordton, NC
Seating on front porch and bright disk of white light moved like it was floating at a high rate of speed from the NE sky to the SW sky. It had NO tail like with a meteorite or fall star. No video or camera was available at the time of sighting. A small aircraft was seen just east of the object.
October 27, 2022 · 7:08 PM · CIRCLE
Apex, NC
On Oct,27 2022 I was driving home from Kohls department store. I was traveling on West William Street towards Apex Peak Way. I got in the left turn lane to make my left turn and as I was waiting, I looked over to my chiropractor’s office ( on the left ), no reason, just kind of daydreaming. As I was looking around I noticed a bright lights hovering in the night sky caught my eye. I would say about 10-12 lights. It was behind the parking lot area ( address provided). It was barely moving and rather low , just above the tree line. At first, I thought it was weird and I couldn’t process what it was, so I kept watching. What I was seeing didn’t fit into the box of what I know to be in the sky. It had too many lights and they were arranged in a circle. The object seemed to tilt/ pivot (this is how I could see the shape as I was looking up at the “ bottom”) and move very little then it started moving slowly. It was a large/ huge object that had blackness between the lights , I tried to make out the shape and it was very hard to be exact on what I was seeing. For a second I thought I saw angular solid between the lights, but I can’t be sure. It seemed to be a hexagon or a circle, I say hexagon because it seemed as if some of the lights were evenly spaced out and on a linear line. The size is hard to describe but I will try. Larger than an airplane but not much bigger. As if you drew a circle ( or hexagon) around an airplane and lined it with lights. However big a commercial airplane is , I’m not sure , but that is close to it. I couldn’t figure it out what I was seeing, and I went through all the possibilities. I was in awe of it and watched it move away quietly. Well, it seemed quiet as I have easily heard plane flying low in my car and I wasn’t hearing anything. At that moment as it drifted away, I came to the conclusion it was either a cluster of drones or an UAP. When I thought that it could be an UAP, I suddenly thought, I must get video so I can figure out this mystery. I raced to fallow it and I saw it again twice more on the left-hand side of the a Apex Peak way. It was still traveling so very low. I shot a video and all I got was a distant light…worthless. I kept driving around for the next ten minutes or so, in hopes of seeing again like the first time. If only I had the presence of mind to capture it on video when I first saw it, however, never in a million years would I think I would see such a thing in the sky that I could not explain. I hope to solve this mystery. I don’t know if just anyone can call the aviation station, it must have been on someone’s radar. Also, I must mention, I recall ever seeing a plane fly that low that is or was that large. Usually planes ascend or descend , not hover around . I am convinced it was not a plane or helicopter. I have no idea what i saw tonight. I hope you can look into this, I hope other people wrote in too.
October 27, 2022 · 7:29 AM · CIGAR
Raleigh, NC
I was driving and I saw 6 green lights in the sky, 2 of them appeared to stop while the 4 kept moving. The 2 crafts in the back sped up and flew past the other 4. A big fireball appeared and everything just disappeared.
October 23, 2022 · 11:17 PM · TRIANGLE
Raleigh, NC
Sitting outside admiring the stars...and all of a sudden a blinking bright white lights and traveling six time the speed of an airplane. It was going south and then abruptly stopped and hovered over the house, and the lights turned flourescent green. (The blinking stopped.) A minute later, it made a 160 pivot and started going back north more slowly with the lights turning colors.....red, white and green.
October 20, 2022 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Aberdeen, NC
I was exiting my vehicle and pulling my child from the car seat while in my driveway. I saw three red lights and a strobe traveling from the north and heading to the south. I decided to stand and wait while holding my sleeping child to see the aircraft. Eventually I could make out that there were 3 aircraft. Two in front and one in the rear. One of the aircraft flew directly over me. I could tell that the two lead aircraft were isosceles triangle shaped with underside red lights at their centers. The rear aircraft was an obtuse triangle shape with a red light at the center, but with a strobe on its nose. None of the aircraft had any navigation lights (no red and green wingtip lights, or tail light.) There was the one strobe light. These aircraft flew silently, very slowly and seemed to be at a low altitude. They appeared very large. I could not make out a color. These aircraft were not trying to hide from any observers on the ground. While it was dark and the aircraft were silent, anyone could have seen these things. I use to fly UAS while in the military and have worked on flight lines. I am NO expert. I have a very limited experience, but I do have some experience. I do not believe these aircraft to be extraterrestrial.
October 20, 2022 · 7:45 PM · FIREBALL
Marion, NC
I was outside around 1945 hours Thursday night 10/20/2022 I saw something that I thought at first was a plane on fire. I stepped to door asked my daughter to step out when I looked back there was a 2nd one. The first had turned a little more north east and was going up getting smaller in size. it went straight up out of sight and the 2nd one followed same path. There was a regular airplane pass through the middle of their path at one point. They had an orange color light that looked like a fire ball. We did not attempt to get a camera to take pictures I was afraid I would not see where they went. I couldn't say for sure but the light might have been on the under side of some type of aircraft. There was no sound at all.
October 18, 2022 · 8:50 PM · CIRCLE
Waxhaw, NC
With a cat that escaped from our Home about 6 years ago. She comes Home every evening around 20:00. I sit on the Front Porch and watch the sky in rural Union County, NC while she is eating. Three different evenings the past month I have seen a white light moving at a high rate of speed making movements that an airplane can not. I served 6 years with the 101st Airborne, so I have seen a lot of helicopters. I am also getting my Class A Parachute license and have witnessed many planes in the sky. I have seen UFO's several times over the past 40 years including one night back in 1980 when our entire cul-de-sac was outside watching about 30 UFO's hover back and forth in the night sky for over 15 minutes!! If you allow uploaded photos I will try and take a photo next time I see one
October 18, 2022 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Chocowinity, NC
Me and my mother were pulling into the driveway when we saw a big bright light over Whichard’s Beach which is across the bay. We watched it as it zigzagged and became smaller. It was, as I can only describe as teleporting randomly across the sky. It had no pattern and it’s light was blinking, also with no pattern. Later we were still mesmerized by it’s oddness and it split into two. One of the two went to the right and as soon as it stopped moving away the left light as fast as I have ever seen something move, it shot towards the other light and recombined. It had two lights, one of them was red and it ended up turning white and the other light was always white. It had no patterns whatsoever so I cannot explain it. It was floating so high and with no pattern so there was no possibility it was a drone. It ended up fading away shortly after it recombined. Weirdly enough it wouldn’t show up on my phone camera even though it definitely should’ve.
October 15, 2022 · 8:35 PM · FORMATION
King, NC
I saw a craft shaped like a diamond with a straight tail on it that had bright amber lights. I don't know how long it had been there by the time I saw it. In the three seconds it took me to unlock my phone to try and get video ......it disappeared. I tried to contact a local airport to see if they saw anything on radar but only got a recording.
October 15, 2022 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Asheville, NC
My neighbor and I were on my back deck October 15th, 2022 at around 7:45pm facing north westward with a pretty good view of the sky. There are trees surrounding the observable sky with one black walnut in particular north north west that is fairly close to the house but at this time of year has minimal leaves. I don’t know who saw it first but we both ended up seeing bright lights that appeared one at a time in the sky beyond the walnut tree. I stood to get an unobstructed view from a smaller tree branch. A bright white light slowly moved up the sky 1-2 inches or so from my viewpoint and faded out. It was then immediately replaced by a similar light not exactly on the same trajectory but close and the starting point was behind where the previous light ended. Could be that one light was circling back around and then showing itself again or a few different lights lit up one after the other but were from different sources. I don’t know. The light did not seem to be a reflection but self emanating. My neighbor reported thinking it had a cross shape within the light that rotated but my eyes only saw a round light. It happened five or six times in a span of approximately 10-15 seconds. We stood staring at the sky for a few minutes then saw one more light doing the same thing (appearing, moving in a similar direction, then fading out) however this light was off more to the West. We had been looking at the bats, and pointing out the first stars, and watching planes fly over far in the distance so we made note that there were no planes flying in the north or west that we saw during the time of the event.
October 11, 2022 · 9:25 PM · CIRCLE
North topsail island, NC
Red dots inconsistently moving multiple directions multiple light patterns not consistent with aircraft all of them all of the place
October 10, 2022 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Charlotte, NC
I start noticing it in January, I thought it was my eyes . But stuff start moving around and dropping in my home . On October 11th is when they start really revealing them selfs . They tried too enter me , everywhere they go I go . Before enter my body they would sit on my legs. I also seen 2 beings that look like men standing over me .
October 6, 2022 · 9:25 PM · CIRCLE
Jacksonville, NC
We were driving to petsmart to pick up my daughter from work. Two circles then seemed to be connected glided in front of us about eighty feet up. The circles were shaped like a sideways 8. They were outlined in a a bright green. Each of them were. With a red light in the middle. Then above them to the left of them was a tic-tac. They were all moving together. Just gliding along. No sound whatsoever. Went to the left side of my vehicle then they just disappeared. It was huge. We've never seen anything like it.
October 4, 2022 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Wilmington, NC
Very bright orange light just appeared as if a bright light bulb was turned on us. Lasted about a minute slight pulsating around the light got a bit brighter and stopped suddenly. This was over the water near Swansboro. Didn’t see any aircraft.
September 26, 2022 · 10:58 PM · FIREBALL
Clyde, NC
I was on the phone with my sister while standing outside and suddenly saw a bright green glowing object which fell slowly through the clear dark sky before disappearing behind a ridge line. I did not see it come back up, so I believe it landed. I could not tell exactly how far away it was but I would say less than a mile. I was shocked by the sighting and noted how oddly slow it fell and what a bright glowing green color it was. Nearby outdoor dogs began barking after I lost sight of the object.
September 25, 2022 · 7:57 PM · CIRCLE
Shawboro, NC
Security cams on my RV. First video is of a cam mounted on top middle of RV facing the sky. You can see power lines, the Object is seen in the bottom right corner, this object is lit up and not making any sound. The second video is the view from a camera mounted on the passenger side at the top right side of the RV with a view of side of RV. The object is seen moving northeast. Included zoomed in map of my RV parked, circle in red, also the direction of object was flying, in red arrow. Included photo of zoomed out map of location of campground. These videos are directly from the security system.
September 23, 2022 · 4:10 PM · CYLINDER
Kernersville, NC
My son and I were traveling down Union Cross Rd in Kernersville (heading in the direction of the HWY 74 BYPASS); If you are looking at a map, when he first mentioned to me that he saw something, we were at the new intersection with Interstate I40... he was seeing it for approx 30 seconds before I could focus on it...it was incredibly far off in the distance. That being said, today was an exceptionally clear day so it wasn't hard to see this thing in detail. At first, it looked like a comet.. same shape with a tail/trail that was in close proximity to the body (noticeably different than the contrails of any aircraft).. I even suggested in the first few seconds that possibly there was a close proximity launch??? Which I could immediately rule out considering where we are in the state of NC and the direction that it was facing. But once we came past Glenn High School, where we had about a mile to really focus on it, there was ZERO movement from the craft. It was pitched forward and down.. and (this is an absolutely rough estimate) it was by our best guess, over the region of Cabarrus County and possibly close to the Charlotte area. This craft was incredibly large... with amateur eyes, I can only guess that it was at about 10,000 ft. and looked to be the size of 3 or 4 blimps.. But as far away as it was, it was a very clearly defined structure and/or craft and it was definitely cylinder in shape. Completely motionless... pitched forward. We had a good 90 seconds to view the object until we came to a spot where the trees along the road way began to obstruct our view.. 20 seconds later one we had reached about where we had the same visibility.. it was completely gone. We had a good 2-3 miles of open road to try to find a point in the sky where we could pick it up again, but we were never able to locate it/. I am 44 years old... I have seen just about every aircraft you can name off in real life.. I have never seen something of this size.. at that distance.. in broad daylight.,
September 21, 2022 · 9:33 PM · CHANGING
Brevard, NC
Colors vary, when recorded and zoomed in there are multi colored strobes, with what appears to be a halo effect. Appears to be spinning nearly akin to animation of an atom, with orbs of rapidly changing light patterns. The colors are bright and vivid, varying quickly from red to a deep yet vibrant purple. The object appears to be rapidly coming closer, then will fade in an irregular movement. Somehow it becomes no dimmer however, and the light pixilates as it moves in a horizontal back and forth motion. When watching the video replay, it appears to be spinning very very rapidly and varies from disk to an oblong shape.
September 20, 2022 · 10:22 PM · UNKNOWN
Durham, NC
When I scrolled through my pictures to determine which ones to keep, I noticed that what I initially thought was a speck on my phone’s screen was a defined object falling from the sky. I have no clue what it is, but it looks more like a human than anything else I can think of. Everyone I have showed this to has recommended I send this in to get a professional opinion.