North Carolina UFO Sightings in 1992

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Chevron shape vehicle, NE of RDU This is a report of a sighting that happened in 1992. The date is an educated guess. It occurred, to the best of my recollection, on either 10/03/92 or 10/05/92.

While flying a Boeing 727 for a major airline, we were enroute to RDU airport, in North Carolina. As we were approaching the airport from the northeast, I observed something I’ve never seen before, nor since. We were within thirty five miles of the airport, below 10,000’ and going 250 KIAS or less.

The First Officer was flying the airplane. While he was flying, I was looking out ahead of us. We were below a broken layer of clouds, and the sun was still high and breaking thru the layer above us.

Ahead of us, I saw what I thought was a flight of two F-16’s. The sun was glinting off of *them*, or I wouldn’t have even have been able to see them. The Raleigh Approach controller didn’t call them as traffic, and I wasn’t worried, as they were a good bit ahead of us.

I looked down to review an approach plate or tune a radio or some minor task, I looked up about thirty seconds after first seeing the flight of two, and the next thing I see is a chevron shaped vehicle within a! n eighth of a mile of us. It is now right outside of my window, just forward off the left wing, traveling opposite direction, at our altitude. I think that this must have been what I had previously thought to be the F-16’s.

The chevron shaped thing must have been in a turn earlier, and that the sun glinting off what, for lack of a better term, might be considered end-plates of the *wings* made it appear like a couple of F-16’s (or any other small fighter). As unusual sightings go, this was not a very flamboyant looking vehicle; however, it was a very flashy flyer. It wasn’t flying along as if it were a *flying wing* type vehicle.

It flew past us, standing on the tip of what you might consider to be its left wing. So, rather than the wing being parallel to the surface of the earth, it was perpendicular. I watched it for about five seconds before it passed behind our left wing.

I asked the Raleigh Approach controller: what just passed Airline/flt. # so and so? I was specific when I asked him. I stated that it was just to our south, and at our altitude, flying from a generally southwest direction to the northeast.

The controller took a little longer than normal to reply. He said he didn’t have anything on radar. Then he waited a little bit longer, and asked if I had seen anything.

I knew it was better, at the time, to keep my mouth shut, so my reply was along the lines of: no, I guess not. The controller didn’t press, and I didn’t offer anything else. This vehicle was unusual in a couple of ways.

It flew on the tip of a wing, level (as it were) and didn’t seem to have any problem maintaining altitude. There was no, visible, means of propulsion. It didn’t leave any type of trail.

It was approx. fifty feet (plus or minus ten feet) from tip to tip, and from its *nose* to the trailing edge of its *wing* was no more than maybe twenty to twenty five feet. It was a dull grey, kind of like battleship grey, and there wasn’t anything on the side that was visible to me that looked light lights.

There were no markings at all, that were obvious. Unfortunately, I had been totally taken in by this thing when it flew past us. After it passed behind the left wing, I asked to FO and FE if they had seen it.

They had not. ((NUFORC Note: NUFORC has exchanged a number of e-messages with the party who submitted this report, who is a retired senior captain for a major U. S.

airline. Our strong suspicion is that the party is a witness of exceptional skill, and is as reliable a witness as one could expect to encounter. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Source indicates that the date in early October 1992 is approximate.

PD)).

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Never seen a UFO.come to Henderson. A friend and i were driving along a country road one night when we noticed a bright light in the sky to our SW.

We pulled the car over to the side of the road to observe the object. The object was a considerable distance away from us at that time. There was a pasture to our left in between us and the object and all of a sudden the object was at the edge of the pasture over the trees out the drivers side window.

It looked maybe the size of a large house. It turned like it was angling down toward us and it was lights,very bright, in the shape of a cross. I personally, at the time felt we were being scanned or analyzed by the object.

I don't know if we experienced lost time or what . The next thing i remember was looking at the digital clock in my friends car and it said 11:11 pm. Ever since then, if i'm around a clock at 11:11, i'll automatically look at the clock for some reason.

It's really weird. Something just makes me look at the clock at that time. The object backed off a little, slowly and then shot off to the W/NW at great speed.

It happened on a country road between Henderson, Oxford, and Youngsville off hwy. 56. There was no other traffic on that rd.

at the time. Theres alot of weird stuff going on in this area. Other people have seen things too.

I know two guys who live in the Watkins community of Vance Co. which is a very rural area w/ alot of woods, saw one land in the woods behind their house. They walked down in there about 200 yds.

and came in contact w/ the object. It made a humming sound and had lights flashing in sequence around it. The closer they got , the faster the lights would flash in sequeqnce.

They got scared and ran back to their house. The object was said to be small, about the size of a full sized van. If anybody in the world wants to see some weird, unexplainable stuff in the sky, just come to Henderson for about a week and go out into some of these areas i've described.

I'll guarantee you will see something that will blow your mind!!! Theirs something weird going on here, ! theres n o doubt about that. The cross in the sky is not the only thing i've witnessed,by far. It is the closest i've been to one ( I think ).

I wish someone would at least come and investigate the weird things that are happening around here. I would gladly assist any way I could. Some, or most people are skeptical to my accounts but i would pass a lie detector test w/ no problem.

Thanks.

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multiple saucers, there and gone. I've reported this more then once.not to you guys though.

I hope to get some feedback this time. I was in a countryish type setting when I noticed an odd looking set of stars. I retrieved binoculars, focused in and saw 3 saucer shaped objects.

they all had lights green, yellow, red if I recall correctly. They where sitting there motionless, Anyway, about 35 seconds later another identical saucer buzzed in out of nowhere.sat there about 10 - 15 seconds, then took off at the speed of light , maybe faster.

About 2 seconds later the other 3 followed suit in the same direction. I never saw them again. I did have a large bottle cap looking ring on my right forearm for weeks following.

can you tell me anything about this????.

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This thing was black and square moving kinda slowly and rotating slowly across the sky, i was thinking i wanted to shoot it down Grandad said it prob was a barn door ,,,never seen a huge dark barn door floating through the air no rain aunt and g ma was there too,.

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I lived a summer in Nags Head to complete a hotel internship for my university. I lived in a house with a Christian family. They called up to my room one night to come outside and see something.

I went downstairs and joined them outside, and saw a very large round object hovering closeby in the sky. The outer perimeter was illuminated by lights(they might have been blue). It hovered there for a bit then zoomed off at an extremely high rate of speed not seen by normal aircraft and disappeared.

A few minutes later, another one appeared, but this one was a bit further away. The first one was almost directly over us. I lived in the Kill Devil Hills section of this area, which might have been about milepost 9 or so.

The other interesting thing was the woman I lived with was holding her dog, a Yorkie terrier, and the dog looked in the direction of the craft and was growling, which was not normal behavior for the dog. I was so excited the next day to watch the news as I was sure this event would be on it, but it was not. I was terrified that night and did not sleep a wink.

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

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Bright Orb Approximately 22:00 on or about June 15th 1992, Myself and my girlfriend had just returned to her home from a dinner date. We were sitting in a 1990 Geo Storm with a hatchback. As we were talking we noticed a light inside of the vehicle, it was so bright it seemed as though the sun was out.

My first thought was that a street light had come on. There were no lights near the vicinity of the vehicle. The light shinned on us for a few seconds(maybe 20-30 seconds).

After the light left the car we looked out the front windshield and saw a very bright shinning orb approximately 100 feet in front of us. The orb was about 30-40 ft in the sky, just above the trees. We watched for a few seconds as the orb moved around in the sky in front of us, then it took off at an amazing speed.

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

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On that evening I was working as a patrol officer for the Rocky Mount Police Department. Between calls for service I was standing with 3 other officers and happened to look up and observed a large triangular shaped craft. Few details could be seen but it was a clear night and the star field was noticeably broken up by the craft.

I could get a sense that it was very large(maybe 150ft+ on each of the triangle sides) It appeared to be at a low altitude, perhaps 2000-3000 ft. There were no lights emitted by the craft. We tried to light it up with flash light but the craft was too far to see any apparent reflection.

The craft was moving very slowly (15-20mph) traveling from ESE to WNW heading from Jacksonville, NC. The craft made no noise. We contacted the local airport and they reported no radar contact.

After 10-25 minutes we received a call for service from the local hospital. Staff there had observed the craft and were inquiring about it. We attempted to make! contact with it again but were unable to locate it.

I had served 10 years in the Marines stationed on airbases and as a hobby painted pictures of military equipment including aircraft. I had a good working knowledge of the state of military and civilian aviation at the time. I in no way recognized the craft observed that night.

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My dad had stepped outside (for what reason, I cannot remember) but he came running back in a rant. He kept saying there is something in the sky. Myself, my mom, my dad and my current brother in law (and former military) went out to look.

What we saw, none of us could explain. We saw a light, it was barely moving, so at first we thought helicopter but there was no sound. Then it started moving in the shape of a square.

It was so fast and did this several times. It suddenly stopped and took off. We were stunned.

We had no explanation. Just as we turned away, it came back and did the same thing. It formed what looked to be a square and then sat there in the sky and then took back off again.

I had never seen anything movie so fast and so quietly in my life.