North Carolina UFO Sightings in 1971

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green oval shaped light over my local church,power lines down. it was saturday night in late in october i think.i was around 9 or 10 years old.

me and my mom were headed to the church we attended to turn the heat on for the next mornings service. she had forgotten to earlier that day when we cleaned the church as we always did on saturdays. anyway,we pulled into the circle drive and noticed the power lines had been cut right in the middle of the driveway.

as we pulled in to observe a oval shaped light green object went across the sky down behind some trees.it startled both of us and we left. the next morning before church we had no electricity either.

the electric line had been cut at the house beside our house and laying across the neighbors driveway. the strange thing about it was that our neighbor was a preacher of another church a few miles down the road. the power line had been cut there as well.

there were only 3 diffrent places that i am aware the lines had been cut. that was at my church,my neighbors who was a pastor,and the lines at his church. his church was a methodist and ours was a baptist.

both churches had the same first name. one ended with methodist,the other with baptist. i don't know if this had anything to do with the light we saw,but it sure was weird for me as a child.

i remember it as if it were yesterday. i am 47 now. this is a very true story.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date is approximate. PD)).

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Triangular shaped with 3 blindingly bright lights gliding silently over my head and onto bypass. I noticed my backyard lit up at 12:00 midnight while I was watching tv. I ran outside to witness a craft that was silently moving over my backyard.

I ran and stood under it blinded by the lights. It was triangular shaped with 3 very bright white lights. There was absolutely no sound.

It then slowly moved down the bypass through town. This was no helicopter, balloon or plane. This was many years ago but I remember it like yesterday.

My neighbor who was a paramedic also witnessed the sighting. It was by far the strangest thing I have ever witnessed. I think this area was a hot spot during the 70’s for UFO sightings.

Another night I witnessed two objects that I assumed were stars dancing around each other in a strange manner that caught my eye while stargazing. This went on for about 5 minutes then one “star” took off in a horizontal path in one direction across the sky very quickly. I turned my head to watch and it disappeared.

The other “star” remained jumping around for a few minutes then it too zoomed off across the sky in a horizontal path in the opposite direction moving at an incredible speed.

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I was thirteen years old, was in the back seat of a Volkswagon Beetle being driven home from school, while gazing out the rear window I saw a silvery perfect circle approximating the size of the full moon steadily rising upward in the East against an overcast smooth gray sky. I had a strong feeling not to discuss this sight with anyone, as interesting and astounding to me as it was. While riding home from middle school in the backseat of a Volkswagon Beetle I was gazing out the rear window of the car when I saw a silvery perfectly round object that resembled a full moon rising steadily against a gray overcast sky.

There was no rain occuring, just a dry overcast gray day. At that time, I was thirteen years old. I knew that what I saw was not a weather balloon, due to the fact that my father, a small aircraft pilot, had taken me numerous times to the local airport to view weather balloon launches, and I was very familiar with all that weather balloons involve, both visually and mechanically.

While watching this object for about thirty seconds, I felt that I was not intended to see it, and I made what I felt was a conscious decision to never discuss what I had seen. I noticed the object ascending from the East, and I watched it with apprehension until the vehicle in which I was riding turned a corner and went down a hill towards my home, and my view was blocked by landscape and trees. When I first noticed the silver circle it was about 20 degrees about the visible horizon, when I lost sight of it thirty seconds later it was in what I would consider the 11:00 AM position, but not overhead, still east of me.

To the east of my sighting location there was no developments, airports, cities, etc.-- just rural area. The object seemed to be very close in proximity and relatively the size of a full moon, and metallic-- silver in color.

Twenty-seven years later, I can still visualize and feel exactly what I witnessed in 1971, and I still have an eerie feeling when I think about it, whic is mostly all the time.