North Carolina UFO Sightings in 1987

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Bright light in window I was awaken around 4AM with a giant bright light shining through my blinds into my bedroom window. At first I thought it was the sun but it was too early. It was so bright that I had to put my hands over my eyes to help sheild out the light.

It stayed there for around 5 minutes and then at very slow intervals it moved up for the next 5 minutes until it just disapeared.

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Huge triangle passes over oblivious, sleeping capital I was staying at my girlfriend's parents' home (They made us sleep in separate rooms) and I was awakened by a low-pitched, rumbling vibration and sound. I went to the window and opened it to look out. Almost my entire veiw of the sky was blotted out by a huge triangular shape with lights running down the sides and marking the corners.

It seemed incredibly low and was moving very slowly toward the West. I watched until the entire length passed overhead and the rumbling began to grow more distant. I was astounded and wondered what to do--then I remembered that I was in the middle of a city and realized that this would be big news in the morning--it couldn't have gone unnoticed--so I decided to go back to bed! No one else that I know of saw a thing, so I've kept it largely to myself until now.

The report from Louisburg NC seems to be very similar and may have been the same night. But mine made noise. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.

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Large black triangular object with lights on each side and at the points making no discernible noise. I returned home to Louisburg from Raleigh at around midnight and upon exiting the car saw a huge black triangular object moving from the Southwest to the Northeast. It appeared to be extremely large but was hard to gauge since it was very dark.

It had lights around each side of the triangle, about 6 to a side as I recall and one at each point. It made no discernible sound and I would have definitely have heard something if it were a plane since I lived out in the country and it was extremely quiet there. It simply just flew overhead and disappeared on the horizon at the tree line.

((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

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pre-awarenees would see UFO -- falling star - changing to dancing light - then very high speed departure Was at a location off Elk Mt Scenic Highway called Devils Rock. Has always been considered a creepy location / make out area / and actually is very sceneic. I was with a friend named ((name deleted)).

His father worked at UNCA as a debunker. I had 2 other UFO encounters and we were at this location discussing paranormal subjects. We both were about 20 years old.

We had been there a little over an hour, and the ironic thing was ((name deleted)) was telling me that he did not believe in ghosts and UFOs and was giving me a speech about rational thinking. I suffer from an abnormal epileptic condition, and have noted when i see UFO i feel a tingling sensation that is in the epileptic family of sensation for me. I told ((name deleted)) this and he said we were going to sit there till i admited this was none rational thinking.

This converation was nearing 9pm. By about 9:15 was getting dark, cold, and starting to get hungry. I still felt the sensation, but wanted to leave as was not dressed to be on a Mt after dark.

I was just about to admit to him was being irrational when i felt the sensation grow very intense. We were sitting on large rocks and over ((name deleted)) shoulder i could see what appeared to be a falling star falling from directly overhead, and should quickly vansih behind a Mt we were facing. ((name deleted)) saw it and said.

that is just. He paused as right before the object should have vanished it stopped above the tree line. It was not very bright, and would say the Mt.

across from us was maybe 2 to 3 miles away across the Beaver Dam area of N. Asheville. ((name deleted)) stared at the object and was speechless.

It slowly bloomed to be much brighter. It was mainly intense white in color, but was so bright it appeared blue at the edges on the light. The light appeared more in rays than round coming from it and seemed to pulse with energy.

I was now tingling all over with the electrical sensation. The object danced up above the tree lines and did shapes, then would drop below the mt area. But near instantly would come back up in another area of the mt.

This went on for a period of about a min. My friend was speaking random curses such as "well ((deleted)) I cannot be seeing seeing this ((deleted)) thing" Even, My dad is going to dis-own me if i tell him this! Suddenly the object pulled up above the MT. and speed up and away from us in a burst of speed and simple went out of visible site.

My friend ((name deleted)) looked at me and asked me if i was still feeling funny. and i answered him. even stronger now then before and started getting very frightened as right when i said this we heard sticks snap in every direction around us.

The car was about 75 feet up the hill from us and almost instantly hearing what sounded like hundreds of footsteps we made a mad dash for his Honda. We did not take time to even open the doors. we were absolutely scared out of our wits.

((name deleted)) dropped his keys trying to start the car. Finally he was able to get it started and we drove down this very poorly made dirt road far faster than was safe. After getting off the hill we came to an Ingle's grocery store that is about 3 miles away on the main road and went in simply to be near other people as we were so freaked out.

We sooner after went back to my home where a large group of our friends were visiting that night. We all told the story to everyone there and we both were stil scared out of our wits. I was trying to figure out if i sense the thing coming - or if i actually attracted it.

I have not talked to ((name deleted)) since in my mid 20's. but am sure he would still collaborate the details of this story. Have had 4 UFO experiences in my life.

and feel as a result they increase ESP and just cause changes in awareness. ((name deleted)) reported after this night seeing a UFO again during a lake campout and suddenly having odd ESP and paranormal activities that became consistant for him also. If there is any desire to get him to file a report i can give you info so as to be able to contact him if you deemed it valuable.

((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. We will await the corroborating report from the other witness. Source of this report describes self as having an engineering degree.

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UFO in clear sight of entire town, egg shape(on its side)many colored lights,memory tampering,nose bleed,abduction. I am getting back pieces of my memory as the years go on. Coming home from my job at Pizza H** in Monroe, I was approching Marshville city limits when I saw an object over the trees.

People I am almost 35 years old and of sound mind! This object was moving at about a 1/2 mile per hour. I was wandering why the whole town was not at a stand-still. If anyone else noticed it, they sure didnt show interest.

I was compelled to check this thing out. I didnt know all of the road names, but I knew how to get around town, so I moved closer, took a right and there it was coming over the trees to my left, directly above at (11:00 sight). Maybe 4 stories above the ground, no sound.

O.K. this thing was an egg shape on its side, covered in various colored lights.

The lights were like the jumbo christmas lights not the small ones. I found myself 3 streets down the road, about a 1/4 mile out of the town light, still in my car. I looked out my window to find the object and it was high above me to the left and shot out faster than anything my mind could comprehend.

Now for the strange part. I put my car in drive(it was still running)recognized the street I was on and made my way home, thinking less and less of what happened. Everyone in my home was asleep so I did not wake them, so I went to bed.

Woke up a little while later sitting up turned around with my face looking down at my pillow-blood pouring and I mean pouring out of my nose. My mother came in to help me and I mentioned none of this to her, Fear that she would think I was using drugs, at that time in my life I did smoke mary jane. Now the more time went on the less I would think about this, until about 5 years later when I would connect the dots.

I hate Alien abduction stories, people that are made pregnant by Aliens or what have you, but this was real! I live a somewhat normal life, but I know What happened in Marshville N.C. that night, I am a firm believer in the fact that something happened to me, and my memory was tampered with.

Thank you for letting me get this off my chest. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate. PD)).

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National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report Occurred : 22:30 (Entered as : Ap/?/87 10:30) Reported: 7/20/2000 10:57 Posted: 3/21/2003 Location: Carolina Beach, NC Shape: Cigar Duration:30 min. Carolina Beach N.C.

cigar I shined my bright headlights on it!Entry Date 7/20/00 As best as i can recall as time frames escape me, in the summer of 1987 as a resident of Carolina Beach,N.C. my mother began yelling from our back porch that she was seeing a u.

f.o. After ignoring her cries for three times,I was compelled to go check the situation out because of her "close encounter" scream! Upon entrance of the back porch facing the ocean ,I then observed a tubular shaped flying vehicle beaming the most spectacular blinding light into the ocean waters not more than 1000 yards away from shore!I turned to Mom and We both began to more or less "freak-out" about what We were seeing! I then instructed her to examine every detail about this "thing" so that We could better remember it's design.

Imagine,if you will,say a 747 jet without any wings or tail,only gigantical and unpainted,the bare metal design showing no rivets whatsoever.Windows adorned the side from front to back and forms of occupants were hazily seen behind some in the mid-section.It made no noise! I! t hovered over the ocean as if looking for something in the shallow surf[speculation].

I then left Mom and ran to the car and sped away at at least 80m.p.h.

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zone to the Phelps' pier at the end of Carolina Ave. North and slung the car around to face the still oncoming slow sailing airship. This angered local residents who came to confront my recklessness , but once I pointed to that "thing" all was astonished at "it".

As it neared I clicked my bright headlights on it. It then slowly swung around and faced me dead straight! It now looked like a circle and had it's light off. It began to hover over me.

At this point I closed my eyes and began to fervently PRAY!! When I looked back up ,it slowly moved back to surf just beyond the pier and "blasted" is too slow the term for it's departure! Instantly in the distance Wrightsville Beach N.C. lit up from the u.

f.o.'s lightbeam.

After a few min. the same thing began at Topsail Beach'N.C.

This happened up the North Carol! ina eastern coastline untill it faded from my sight. When I ! ! returned home my mom said local news would carry the story at 11:00 which was just coming up. In a brief report , they mentioned that the u.

f.o. sightings being called in was nothing more than a "Coast Guard Drug Survailence Vehicle"! O.

K. Carolina Beach 'You remember this!! Who could ever forget?! Back me up on this! UPDATE AND CORRECTIONS TO ORIGINAL POST ABOVE I wanted to be more precise on this as it was something that was vague in it's post back then. I just wanted to clarify it.

It bothers me that so far only the first witness(my mom)has responded and posted about this event. As best as I can recollect,(as the exact time frame escapes me),it was in the summer start in 1987 of mid April. I was a local resident of Carolina Beach, NC.

Lying on my back in bed, playing an electric guitar unplugged, I began to hear my mother yelling from our back porch that she was seeing a UFO. After ignoring her three times,I was finally compelled to rise up and go check the situation out because she had just frantically ran up to my locked door and screamed out. "It's a close encounter of the 3rd kind!" So with that statement it really got my attention and upon my entrance out the back door onto the porch facing the ocean ,I then observed a very large and long tubular shaped flying vehicle that was beaming the most spectacular blinding light into the ocean waters not more than 1,000 yards away from shore! I turned to Mom and we both began to more or less "freak-out" about what we were seeing! I was astonished at it's huge dimensions and how far it spanned down the! coastline to it's right from it's front front.

It had large rectangular windows that started from behind the nose section all the way to the rear. I was stunned at the close up encounter of this ship because of it's magnitude and awe commanding presence. I turned and looked at my mom and saw an expression I had never seen on her face and told her .

"You should see the look on your face" and she replied the same thing back to me! I then instructed her to please examine and to pay close attention to every detail about this "thing" so that we could better remember it's design having no camera to capture the image. I told her to remember the details and we were to write them down on paper later that night while all was fresh on our minds. We then began pointing out to each other how this airship has no signs of being assembled and riveted.

It was so flawless. No signs on it at all of any wear or rust or scratches etc. We were close enough looking right from the back porch tha! t if I had a rock I could have struck it with ease as there wa! s no way I could have missed the monster sized UFO.

Imagine a 747 jet shape without any wings or tail or front windows but only gigantic and unpainted. It rose very high and was very round and blimpish. Bare metal in design and showing no rivets whatsoever.

Gigantic rectangular windows adorning the side from front to back (which by the way was easily several football fields long or yet longer in length) and there was this greenish/yellowish blurry light in the center section with forms of occupants that were hazily seen because it seemed to make you unable to focus upon them. It made no noise! It hovered over the ocean as if looking for something in the shallow surf with a blinding beam of light that shot out from it's bottom side. This wide and bright light did not shine outwards but stayed in a curtain like drop from the bottom that lit up the ocean water like the color of a swimming pool looks in lights at night while all surroundings were dark grayish night.

It was slowly passin! g by but still right in front of us when I decided to get the car and go down the road towards the end of the island to see it approaching from that view. I left mom by herself on the back porch and grabbed her car keys off a hook on the wall by the front doorway and took her Plymouth Volare without her permission (my car had a weak battery before this)and sped away at at least 80 MPH in the 20 MPH zone to get to the Phelps' pier at the end of Carolina Avenue North. When I got there I slung the steering wheel a hard right and spun the car around in order to face the still oncoming slow sailing airship that soon would hopefully arrive.

This angered some local residents but especially disturbed some tourists who confronted my recklessness from the balconies of some adjacent condos. They began "telling me off" and how they had indeed called the police. The police department was less than a mile away and it would just take minutes to get there.

I told them."Good. we're gon! na need them!" That comment seemed to scare them as if I had j! ust thre atened them.

I recall they had a Queens New York styled or New Jersey type accent/dialect. One particular man in that group asked me why was I acting so strange and what was I trying to accomplish by my odd reckless behavior. I had gotten the car stuck in the sand and had it in a weird position and I now was just standing outside the driver's side door with my leg inside ready to click the high beams on.

I replied."You'll see"! He thought I was crazy and my answers were a threat. But I was so focused on trying to locate that UFO thing that nothing bothered me.

It was a grayish dark night. The UFO had turned off it's lights and I could not see it. I walked out to the surf and looked right down the shoreline and it was nowhere to be seen.

I was standing there thinking I was about to be arrested or took away to be evaluated when it dawned on me I was looking right at it! From the direct front it was a large circle! It blended in with the sky but was coming onward straight ahe! ad like I hoped it was. I ran to the car and positioned my foot above the high beam switch on the floorboard. That man continued asking me why I doing the things I was and that cops would be here any minute and I knew if I said anything about a UFO that it would only go from bad to worse so I just pointed at the area where it soon would appear and said .

"Just keep lookin' right there fellow!" As it neared I clicked the bright headlights on it. Two small headlight dots appeared upon the giant blimp like structure. They all saw it and began to go insanely frightened and saying all kinds of stuff and it caused me to smirk when they began asking me what it was etc.

(As if I knew!)It then slowly swung around and faced me dead straight! It now looked like that circle. It began to hover right over me.I knew I had made this event happen by not minding my own business and it was now hovering at me.

At this point I closed my eyes and began to fervently pray!I was so scared that I sm! ashed my face into the sand and was screaming out to God to sa! ve me. I think I repented for things I never did but feared I was perhaps about to die by maybe that light that can come from it's underside. That man that talked to/at me earlier was saying.

"You can come up from there.it's leaving! It's backing up man!" But I was too frightened to believe him but he kept insisting it was cool to look up. So when I looked up it was slowly moving backwards just beyond the pier and then it turned so precise and they all saw its huge cigar shape just long enough to get a good mental picture and in just a split second it "blasted" (too slow of a term)away! More screams and explicatives came from the condo balconies and I pointed to the horizon to the left where the night lights of Wrightsville Beach NC were twinkling from and then instantly there in the distance, Wrightsville Beach NC lit up from that UFO's light beam.

After a few minutes the same thing began to repeat itself at Topsail Beach etc. This happened up the North Carolina eastern coastlin! e until it faded like "heat lightning" from our sight. Those people who were angered at me.

well they helped me get out of the sand and I went back home never once encountering an officer of the law kind! When I returned home my mom gave me an earful for leaving her alone and taking her car but then said that the local news was going to carry the story at 11:00 PM which was just coming up. In a brief report by a girl who's first name was Michelle, they mentioned that the UFO sightings being called in was nothing more than a "Coast Guard Drug Surveillance Vehicle" ! (I later asked the local news station for a copy of that broadcast and they told me that they don't archive news broadcasts). My mom and I both that very night had drawn our pictures of the craft and wrote out our affidavits about our encounter and put them in a separate file among the important paperworks stored in a special closet.

Later that year we had to move and that particular paperwork was all we found missing! Many years went by and I've told this event to hundreds of listeners. I once told a retired Air Force officer and he cussed me out and told me that I had better keep my @#$%% mouth shut if I knew what was good for me. He continued cussing me out until I was red faced and hot under the collar and he drove off down the wrong side of the highway pulled over at a nearby phone booth and made a phone call.

My wife was disturbed and asked me to quit telling others. Later that night when we got home, we found someone had entered our home with no sign of breaking in. We never found anything out of place except that someone had entered the house and installed a new cartridge of ink in our printer and used over half of it.

It's like they wanted us to know it. The strangest part of my encounter is that it was not late and had not been dark very long when I laid back to play my guitar. But when I returned home it was almost eleven o' clock.

I was not abducted. I did not recall anything longer than perhaps thirty minutes time taking place. That missing time thing has bothered me.

And those people on the balconies may have took photos. They had a lot of time to do that. And the police never showed up.

And the TV station constantly shows archived footages of old news. If I'm sounding somewhat paranoid then it's only because I have what I consider to be good valid reasons. And to make it even weirder is that in the very same location where the UFO was first encountered, me and my brother-in-law both watched the figure of a person come out of the surf there one night in what seemed like gray flannel attire compete with a hood that covered the head and although it should have been dripping wet it's attire was completely dry and flapping in the wind and then it just vaporized in front of us! For readers this is the 800 block of Carolina Avenue North.

OK Carolina Beach people in April of '87. you remember this!! Who could ever forget?! Back me up on this! ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).

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I SAW WHAT I SAW I once rented a housing unit that was commonly known among Carolina Beach locals as the "DunRoman" cottage at Carolina Ave. North in Carolina Beach N.C.

which is now the 800 block but was then the 600 block before the town revised the layout. A famous actor purchased the property and had the old beach home demolished and built a new home there. I believe my sighting took place around the eleventh of April,1987 but I'm not certain as to that exact date.

However I am certain of the following. While I was admiring the beautiful ocean scenery from the back porch facing the ocean ,I saw a UFO.It just appeared before my eyes.

It did not merely just sail in from some perimeter.It manifested instantly.It was a fairly dark night and this tubular shaped UFO was very large.

This also was a very up close encounter.I called for my son and after several emotional outcries he finally responded by rushing out to the back porch.He still is very haunted by the memory.

I too have no equal experience to diminish this. As far as features go,there were no signs on this craft revealing it being assembled by the usually standardized fabrications we see in aircraft such as rivetings or weldings or paint.However there were metallic trims around the many windows that adorned this airship from front to back that seemed to be the only thing I could define as perhaps seeming "natural" to my eyes.

It was raw metallic and flawless in it's design.It had semblance to a blimp but however this was a colossus that stretched several hundred yards in lenghth and had no carriage or motor housings. It made no noise that I might discriminate and the ocean was relativity quiet.

A brilliant ray-beam of light emitted from the entire bottom side.My son left in my car to go in pursuit of this craft as I watched it slowly travel left to points ahead. A short time later at 11:00 PM the local news media reported that the Coast Guard Auxiliary Station at Carolina Beach, N.

C. issued a statement that the UFO being reported by people all up and down the Eastern Seaboard was nothing more than just their drug surveillance vehicle.Me and my son began to laugh.

It was the one time we could as that UFO was and still remains to this day the most spellbinding encounter to date. He posted his post about this years ago on this website and no one has backed him up as he asked for.Well here is my account.

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

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UFO IN ASHEVILLE N.C. 1987 this was a long time ago but I saw the same crft in the jan 2001 report same one low to the ground 700 ft a low hum sound I AM NOT KIDING I'M FOR REAL LOW SPEED LIKE IT WAS GOING ABOUT 45 MPH AND WHNT A ROUND IN A CRUCLE 4 MILE RADIS AND IT TUOKE OFF IN THE AIR LIKE A COMET BUT VRICLY.

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