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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
June 7, 2022 · 10:45 PM · TEARDROP
Charlotte, NC
Once it got further away we were still able to see it through a tree line until it vanished we were able to see it in the dark but it did not have a light from what we could tell we have a video but it’s not clear as it was shot from iPhone.
June 5, 2022 · 8:20 PM · UNKNOWN
Raleigh, NC
I was admiring tonight's amazing sunset as I walked my dogs. A passing jet had just added a beautiful arcing contrail to the scene and I thought to take a photo of it. Before I could get my phone out of my pocket, however, I saw another craft right behind it. It was extremely shiny and angular. I could not make out much more as I only saw it for seconds (it was nowhere to be seen by the time I got out my phone). What caught my eye was that it seemed to be near the airliner but left no contrail of its own. I am a Navy veteran and familiar with all types of aircraft. I am also a drone pilot and do not believe this was a drone. In the photo, the craft would have been in the sky in the area directly above the porch light and slightly below the contrail.
June 5, 2022 · 7:17 PM · CIRCLE
Fountain, NC
For the last 3 or more years I have been seeing crafts that resemble stars. Just like the poster from Lexington NC, they are usually right above the trees, hovering. At first I assumed maybe they were drones until one night I went outside and I tried to record one and the light just turned off. I started talking asking if it could turn its light back on. Well, it did. I have it recorded but of course my phone camera sucks and you can't see it very well. I also see them pretty much everywhere I go. Everyone just thinks I'm crazy. Recently I've started seeing a shiny silver almost tic tac shaped craft in the daylight. I was looking in the sky talking out loud, I said "where are you? I know I'm going to see you today, just don't know when." Seconds after saying that, you guessed it, there it was. Some may say that's a coincidence. I'd say maybe, but the very next day at my mom's house I'm telling her about it, and as soon as I finished talking, it appeared again. Before I only seen it at my house but now her house 30 miles or so away? I'm trying to find out who they are. I, too, would appreciate any help/feedback. Thanks.
June 3, 2022 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Bryson City, NC
Stated above. Perhaps objects were satellites, but they seemed to be flying in circles before converging.
June 2, 2022 · 9:45 PM · CHEVRON
Carolina Beach, NC
I was standing on the second floor balcony looking for satellites and observing night air traffic when a delta shaped object moved from my 5 o’clock position to my 11 o’clock position. The object had three white lights. The lights were at the 3, 9, and 12 o’clock positions on the craft. The lights were a dim white almost yellowish light. The craft was completely silent and the airspeed appeared to be about 130 knots. The craft appeared to be about 1,500 ft. AGL. The color of the craft seemed to be a dark color maybe grey. I could see the faint outline of the craft against the night. sky. I lost sight of the aircraft as it continued toward the ocean. It disappeared behind the courtyard Marriott. Total time observed between 5 and 10 seconds.
June 2, 2022 · 9:13 PM · TRIANGLE
Raleigh, NC
My wife and I were walking in our neighborhood and noticed a triangle of lights flying silently in the same direction we were waking (southeast). There were three solid warm white lights at the corners, with a red light in the center of the triangle blinking at a steady interval. I only made out the lights but my wife says she could see the outline of the craft. It was flying roughly SE before banking south. We continued to watch it fly south towards downtown Raleigh until it went out of view beyond the tree line. Another regular looking aircraft was present flying in a normal northward flight path. Other aircrafts were seen in the area after, but none seemed unusual and all were in typical flight paths for this area. There is generally a lot of air traffic in this area. Observers were two mid-30s adults who are working professionals. We were able to record a video of the craft, though it was difficult to see the details in the video. We are not interested in releasing the rights to this footage at this time.
June 1, 2022 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Raleigh, NC
Bright white light that seemed oval darting in different directions up down left right came forward towards me then went in front of me but this was very high in the sky it was just a fast darting light that didn’t move like anything should move and was traveling a long distance in a short time. It seemed oval or like it was leaving a trail of light when it would jump to a different location, It wasn’t just a round bright light moving was very high very fast and ovaly.
May 30, 2022 · 10:05 PM · SPHERE
Vilas, NC
Looking at the night sky to observe the ISS, which we saw. We also saw several aircraft that appeared to be commercial jets. Shortly after seeing the ISS, we saw a very bright white light moving NW to SE. It was a round or spherical shape and was the brightest light in the sky. There were no flashing lights like an aircraft, and it made no sound. After watching for approximately 15-20 seconds, it disappeared. It did not fly away at high speed. It was not cloudy and didn’t appear to fly behind a cloud. Just there, very bright one second, and gone the next.
May 30, 2022 · 4:00 PM
Carolina Beach, NC
Saw strange cloud formation above while watching jets climbing after taking off from airport and other jets descending to land. I noticed something shiny moving in the clouds. Upon observation I realized it was a long cylinder moving at a high rate of speed through the cloud formation, actually appears to pass a commercial jet. I got my friend to look and two other people walking by. We all saw it and no one could explain it or the strange cloud formation. We watched until it was completely out of sight over the Atlantic ocean. None of us had our phones or cameras to take pictures. You may contact me by email
May 29, 2022 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
High point, NC
My wife and I were sitting on the patio at 8:45 p.m. May 29th 2022, facing towards the east. I am an amateur astronomer for 56 years and as I was looking at the sky I noticed a golden orange star object approximately 50 to 55° in the East Northeast sky. It made no sound and kept a steady brightness. My wife noticed this object with me and we said, this is the first star out tonight. We kept talking and looked back at the object at 8:50 p.m., and it was still glowing in the sky. It was the same color, but all of a sudden, within 10-15 seconds, it vanished. There was no movement in any direction, it didn't change brightness, it looked the same as it did 5 minutes prior, it was in the same position, but it just vanished. My wife and I were in disbelief, we had no idea what we had just seen. It was not the star Arcturus or any other celestial object. We had an unobscured clear sky that evening.
May 28, 2022 · 9:25 PM · TRIANGLE
Statesville, NC
I was laying in bed watching tv and I saw a craft descending down with illumining lights which caught my eye through my second floor window. It went over my home and disappeared into the darkness.
May 28, 2022 · 7:14 AM · CYLINDER
Fayetteville, NC
While taking my dog on usual morning walk, i stopped to observe a group of buzzards that had gathered in a large oak tree, as they did daily. While observing the birds, the bright white object appeared against the very blue sky. It moved from north to south at a high rate of speed for approximately 3-5 seconds. As I was trying to remove my phone from my pocket to take a picture/video, it abruptly stopped and disappeared. There were no lights, sounds, or anything else noticeable about the object.
May 26, 2022 · 9:10 PM · UNKNOWN
High Point, NC
My wife and I were sitting on the bed when we heard what we assumed to be a airplane flying over the house, Although It didn’t exactly sound like a airplane. It was so close I hesitated to get up and see what it was, once the sound was over my room and in my backyard I quickly hopped up to see, I popped my back door open to see a wing shaped object coasting over the trees on my yard. It wasn’t speeding, it was seemingly landing because it was at the top of the trees and moving so calmly. The trees were not moving at all. The wing shaped object looked like a right wing of a airplane but not exactly. It had 4 red lights about a foot apart from each other and one blinking light on the end of it. I couldn’t see the left side of it because My yard is full of trees. Had it been a airplane I would’ve seen the left wing sticking out and I would’ve seen a vessel. It seemed to connect to something at the point but it wasn’t visible because the trees were blocking. It’s very dark in my yard at night as well as my neighbors. I didn’t see a engine on the wing like an airplane. Had it been an airplane i could’ve seen the people on the plane that’s how close it was. I could’ve threw an egg and hit from the balcony had I stepped outside. I didn’t see the rear wing following behind. I ducked when I saw it coasting over. It was moving so gently and smooth. The sound didn’t match the movement and speed of it. My reaction was “what the **** is that?!” Which alarmed my wife to get up and rush to the door by that time it was already behind the trees and still moving, my wife and I saw the red light through the trees. That’s all my wife saw. My brain didn’t recognize what it was that’s why I reacted the way I did. My wife said I had the look of fear on my face. The “wing” shaped object was an estimated 20 feet long and 2-3 feet in width and it was white. I visually saw it for 2-3 seconds. The whole ordeal from the initial sound was about 10 seconds. I laid in bed for about 5 seconds when we first heard it, I jumped up after, it took about a second or two to open my door and I watched it go behind the trees in 3 seconds. Had I jumped up as soon as we heard it I could have possibly gotten footage or a picture. It actually sounds like it I came straight down or from the side and not flying from the front of the house. Once it went into the trees after I saw it the sound was gone, like it never happened. 20 minutes later the military comes flying over the house. It was a reported chinook which carries 55 military troops and/or equipment and 3 black Hawk helicopters. Shaking the entire house windows and all. This was also reported by neighbors via my ring bell. We thought it was an airplane doing an emergency landing initially. I called the local news And gave report they stated they got calls about the military flying in but none of what I saw. 2 days before I saw what I saw, it was reported that an hour away from me people saw a triangle shape flying over the highway. Charlotte NC.
May 24, 2022 · 9:55 PM · TRIANGLE
CONCORD, NC
Around 9:55pm we were driving on a dark unlit road when we noticed a large cloud in the sky changing colors from blue, red, white, etc. The color change was constant (unlike thunderheads). The location never changed and this cloud phenomenon went on for 6-7 hours (we watched it for a while, went home, and then went back to the same road and it was still in the same location hours later. We pulled over in an unlit business park to get out of the car and observe and photograph/video the cloud. We were using an iPhone 13 Pro to record this cloud phenomenon. During my recording of the video, I could see white/green objects moving around in the cloud. They appeared as white circular orbs and would change their direction quickly (I have all of this on video). We also recorded clusters of these orbs moving in a circular pattern. On a separate video, two orbs together appear and then descend down very quickly out of range in my video. Also- when I enlarged the video I saw some more defined shaped objects. There were green triangular shaped objects, and also a light green tic tac shaped object suspended vertically in the cloud. The tic tac shaped object was moving direction vertically in the air.
May 24, 2022 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
INDIAN TRAIL, NC
at approximately 9pm i observed a single odd orangish (flame like) light in the sky while traveling as the passenger in my family's car. we were entering our neighborhood and i first assumed this light to be a fireball meteorite or something that would burn out quickly. we turned away from the light and i lost sight of it as we proceeded to our house about a block away from the initial sighting. once we were parked i got out of the vehicle and walked to the end of the driveway to see if i could still see the object, hoping to show it to my daughter and husband. to my surprise the object was still present and headed in our direction. it was moving from the north to the south across the sky and was to the east of our viewing location. i called my husband and daughter over and both saw the same object. we are located near the monroe airport and are accustomed to seeing regular small aircraft traffic in the area following a similar flight pattern, but this object seemed too fast for one of these smaller aircraft and the nature of the light had a distinct flame like quality including an occasional flicker. we recorded an 8s video of the object moving through the sky on a cell phone, unfortunately the quality is not great. after observing the object for a total of probably a minute once we reached the house, the light rapidly faded. i was able to still distinguish the shape of the object that presumably was the source of the light and its path in the sky once the light was out, but it was very faint. at that point it appeared as a small dot reflecting ambient light. my best guess is that this was a rocket or a fireball meteorite, but the duration doesn't seem to match the fireball theory and i'm not sure that a rocket would have moved that horizontally through our viewing area. perhaps a plane or helicopter flying with a flare instead of the usual indicator lights or a piece of space debris re-entering the atmosphere at a much slower relative velocity to earth than a typical fireball? please contact by email if you'd like further information or have a good idea as to the identity of this object. thank you
May 20, 2022 · 4:03 AM · OTHER
Charlotte, NC
My husband and I were out of town and at about 4 a.m. our Ring app alerted that something was in our backyard. We went live and saw what appeared to be six circular small orbs hovering in tandem back and fort in our yards. They would disappear, move back and forth up and down, sometimes growing slightly in size. We viewed this happening for 45 min to an hour and it was still going on when we turned off our Ring app. We cannot explain what it was.
May 18, 2022 · 7:33 PM · SPHERE
Nahunta, NC
Object was stationary. Light from sun was reflecting off of it. Reflected light from sun slowly dimmed until sun was below horizon of the object itself and was no longer shining on it. Look at star chart on phone and no satellite or planets were showing on application where object was located on the area phone was pointed at. looked like 2 objects close together. could not focus telescope on it to get clear image. Got neighbor to come outside and he seen the object aswell. was no longer visible around a half hour past sunset
May 16, 2022 · 4:19 PM · DISK
Kill Devil Hills, NC
Over house behind us. I thought it might be ball lightning at first but over 2 photos I took that day it’s different number of anomalies. A friend brought it to my attention. Who knows. Just thought I’d send it in.
May 16, 2022 · 12:03 AM
Havelock, NC
I saw this as I took a photo of the blood moon. Zoomed in noticed the object but it was gone about 5 minutes later when I tried to take a second photo.
May 15, 2022 · 7:52 PM · CYLINDER
Raleigh, NC
I was recording the moon seen it was visible. And I saw a plane and I was recording it and to my surprised the plane went behind the moon instead of in front of it. I have zoomed it in and and shown it to several people and they all I agree.
May 11, 2022 · 12:17 PM · CHANGING
Morganton, NC
My husband and I were working outside and he looked to see a plane overhead and noticed this object just beyond the plane. It was circular and transparent. He called me over to see it. We watched for about 30 minutes all the while it is stationary over our house and changing into a white ball with a dot. It seemed like it was rotating. I finally got my phone and recorded some footage. I stopped recording when it the shape turned rectangular and started moving toward Lake James. My husband lost sight of it after about an hour.
May 10, 2022 · 6:44 AM · LIGHT
Charlotte, NC
Driving West I saw what I thought was a planet and thought to myself, wow what planet is that? And pulled out my phone to check an app I have that shows current planets in the sky. The what I thought was a bright planet or star then disappeared completely. It reappeared and flew south then flickered in and out. It stopped and you could see if very slightly then it disappeared completely. I couldn’t believe it. It was bright outside too, it clearly knew it was getting too bright to pose as a star so it had to go invisible. PS it was a completely clear sky. No clouds.
May 9, 2022 · 10:29 PM · SPHERE
Midland, NC
While star gazing movent was noticed and knew it wasn't a star. Watched it move up and over sometimes at a fast speed. Movement was also down at high speed until it finally shot up and out of site. During the time of watching it would pulsate bright then turn back to not pulsating. This video was taken while laying on the front lawn of our house looking southeast.
May 2, 2022 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
north of greensboro and raleigh nc 40 -50 miles, NC
I was the Capt.on southwest 1878 Atlanta-Baltimore.5-2-22.We were level at 39000 ft.A light very high in the sky north of our position caught my attention.I watched it for several minutes and noticed there was another light that seemed to be traveling with it.THe first officer and I watched the light for 15-20 mins.The lights were at an extremely high altittude.I dont think they were conventional aircraft because of their ability to both fly and turn at such high altittudes.The aircrafts circular patterns continued to move to the northeast.The airtraffic controllers said their primary radar was turned up to 99000ft and they didnt see anything.As we begun our descent into Baltimore the aircraft continued to the northeast and we lost sight of them.