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North Carolina UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 6 UFO sighting reports in North Carolina from 1990 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "disk" (2 reports, 33.33% of total).
- September is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 50.00% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 50.00% of total).
- 09/20/90 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 16.67% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (4 reports, 66.67% of total).
North Carolina UFO Sighting Reports in 1990
This is a sampling of 20 North Carolina UFO reports from 1990, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
Full Report Text:
1000's of neon colored U.F.O.
's/Saucers in Sky at once. On October the 18, 1990, My family and I saw some objects/U.F.
O.'s in the sky that looked like shiny silver saucers, identical to the ones from the prior year around Oct 18 1989. There were several circling over the trees across from my house where then there were no other houses or trailors.
They kept circling but going to the north east toward Tr-City Mall. Within the next couple of nights I saw another object in the sky. This object came from the northeast and went sort of to the southwest-westerd over my house and my parents trailor.
There were at least several hundred U.F.O.
's/Space ships in the sky at once circling in different directions but heading southwest or westerd. All of these objects were made the same. They were all a like accept for their color.
They ranged from solid colored in the rainbow. They were lite solidly all over like vibrant or sort of neon. There was a black circle on the very bottom which was solid black.
There were lights that rotated around the outer edge of the craft of orange or red to yellowish or beidge to white. The craft got very close over my house and scared me very much. They never did completely stop but were going very slowly until they were all out of sight.
From the time they came into sight until they went out of sight, it took them maybe around a couple of hours or more and this ended around 3:30a.m. or 4:00 a.
m. ((NUFORC Note: One of four, seemingly serious-minded, reports from same witness. Date may be approximate, although the witness does not indicate that fact.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
I and my mother and sister and dog were traveling from greensboro nc to a small commnity in randolph county when it orange ball appeared. As we entered into level cross nc, just turning on providence church rd. out of the lft.
side of my eye a small orange ball shape object with neon type glow was zig zagging through the tree lines down in a revene.My sister was asleep in the seat between myself and mother. She awoke imeadiatley asking me if a saw a strange object and about that time the orange ball appeared 20 feet in front of the truck hovering.
The object had increased in size from large pumpkin to about the size of volkswagon.From this point it was about ten miles to red cross and I contiued to drive as the object followed 30 ft above truck.The object began moving at irratic directions at speeds of light.
As i was driving two white lights like head lights approached rapidly from the rear and as soon as the lights got to the back of the truck they shot streight up and disappeared. In the mean time the orange ball had grown to the size of hot air balloon.This object seem to be almost pure energy form with a personality.
We had come to the end of the road which dead into state hwy 22 when the orange appeared over a large fieled. This object had grown to the size air craft carrier.The object started moving east and west at the speed of light.
It hovered over the field again and about that time a another car appeared and a man got out and looked at me and looked at the ovious UFO and said ((obscenity deleted)) and jumped in his car and sped off. I was begining to get nervous myself with my mother and and sister screaming for me to get in the truck. I was driving Ford wrecker unit at the time and I decided to turn all the rotator lights on the truck.
This seemed to startle the object and it made a slow upward climb making a humming noise like high tension power lines and then start poping and fiseling sound like hand held sparkiler and faded out and disappeared about 3-4 thousand above ground,WHOW! This trip should had taken about an hour but in reality it took about three hrs.To this day we dont know what happened to those two hrs of lost time.Never a day goes by I don't think of this sighting.
Full Report Text:
out of this world objects were circling one another looked to be a metallic craft best way to describe them silver sparrow's looked away to make sure of what i was looking at and looked back into the distance and watched them leave disappear over the treetops ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides e-address only. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Silent not moving with light beam My brothers and my neighbor that was at our house at the time noticed a bright light outside of our living room window. We thought it was a helicopter looking for someone. But we realized there wasn’t the helicopter sound.
We saw a craft just above the tree line of the woods behind our house. It has a very bright beam pointing straight down. The glow of the light made it hard to see the craft clearly.
It was a dark gray color or black. It looked as though there were lights around the center of the craft horizontally but not nearly as bright. It didn’t move at all.
We went to look out of another window and it was gone. The next day we tried to see if it left any marks like crop circles. We didn’t find anything.
Full Report Text:
It blacked out a large part of stars in sky.Huge!--black--silent--low flying--slowly over downtown--almost covered downtown(some 10-12 blocks)--no lights. I can only describe it as a "Mother Ship" similar to the one on Close Encounters.
My first craft sighting. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Mystery light attracts Air Force attention in NC. Object was orbiting Seymour Johnson AFB.Flight pattern very irregular.
Lots of latteral movement.Light alternated between red,orange and white.No sound detectable.
We witnessed from approximatley 12 mi.Altitude varied between 1200 and 15000 ft. estimated.
Very captivating experience.10 minutes after event massive amount of F-4 interceptor activity.AF seemed to patrol for at least an hr.
after event.Helicopters deployed searching the ground w/ lights.I should have wrote down event but this is pretty much all I remember.
((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. Seymour Johnson AFB also reported a UFO on its periphery on the evening of November 17, 1995. PD)).
North Carolina UFO Sightings From 1990 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Disk | 2 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Light | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
North Carolina UFO Sightings From 1990 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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September | 3 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
October | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
North Carolina UFO Sightings From 1990 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Thursday | 3 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Friday | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Monday | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
North Carolina UFO Sightings From 1990 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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09/20/90 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
10/18/90 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
09/01/90 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
02/05/90 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
03/15/90 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
North Carolina UFO Sightings From 1990 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 4 reported sightings | 66.67% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
All North Carolina Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1990
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in North Carolina, in 1990
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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Greensboro | 1 UFO Reports | Greensboro UFO Sightings in 1990 |
Sleepy Creek | 1 UFO Reports | Sleepy Creek UFO Sightings in 1990 |
Farmville | 1 UFO Reports | Farmville UFO Sightings in 1990 |
White Lake | 1 UFO Reports | White Lake UFO Sightings in 1990 |
Level Cross | 1 UFO Reports | Level Cross UFO Sightings in 1990 |
Forest City | 1 UFO Reports | Forest City UFO Sightings in 1990 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in North Carolina
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in North Carolina.