North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2001

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I walked out on my deck on a clear sunny afternoon,I looded up at the sky to see if they had been spraying chemtrails.There was no chemtrails that day but I noticed a red airplane what I thought was an airplane.I looked down, an thought as close as that plane was it was`nt making any noise at all.

It also seem odd that it was fire engire red,so I looked up at it again ,closer this time and then it hit me that was not a plane.It was solid red with no wings and was absolutely noiseless.It was traveling west at a height (guess) 3000 ft.

It was the shape of a tylenol capsule the size was close to a capsule held at arms length.It was moving slowly,probably no more than 40 mph.I watched it for approx.

20 to 25 secs,it then FLASHED AND VANISHED before my eyes.I didnt blink or sneeze .It VANISHED,I could not believe it.

I walked out into the yard and looked horizon to horizon.It was gone. Disappeared .

It had no windows,portholes or any other distinguising features.

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Faint amber colored, Triangular shaped object with moving spheres within the structure Saturday night, my wife and I with a friend went out to eat at the Carrabbas resturaunt in Greensboro, NC. We had a two hour wait, and we waited outside. We were sitting on the bench looking out to the north and I noticed a very, faint amber colored triangular shaped object moving to the southeast.

The UFO phenomena has always interested me and I am always looking in the sky, but most of the time I am able to rule out a classic UFO. 99.9% of the time I can identify it, but this time, it was strange.

As it got closer, to overhead, but not completely I noticed that within its triangular structure it appeared to have many spheres or "orbs" interchanging within it. The entire craft remained the faint amber color, although the spheres appeared to be more translucent. My curiousity in the object, attracted a crowd who also were waiting to go inside and they all saw the same thing, including my wife and friend.

One lady even let out a startled yell. A few gasps were also heard. Out of the group of us who witnessed the event one lady said that they were just ballons, but the size of the object at that altitude would have meant the balloon cluster would be huge, and it retained a definitive shape, at least the outline did, the rest of the craft did appear to morph somewhat.

We watched it as it went off in the distant night sky toward the southeast, towards Fayetteville, NC. I'm not sure of the altitude, I approximate it at probably 1000 feet or so. The first sight of it looked like a jetliner with its lights on coming into land, but shrouded by heavy cloudcover(thats what the shape appeared as intially) It was a clear cold night, only high level cirrus clouds were barely visible.

It was not a helicopter, jet, or hot air balloon or geese. This was clearly unidentified, in my opinion. I have also reported this sighting to MUFON.

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Hello there I am 14 years old and I believe in UFO'S and Aliens.On December 2001 I was in my room and I started hearing some kind of noise so I went out in my living room to look out my back door.I was looking out the door for about 2 minutes then I seen a flash of light so I thought it was just lightning but then it hit me that it was a clear night.

Then I seen a saucer shaped craft huvering over a house it had lights all around it,and a dome on the top.The object was so close to the house it was almost touching it so I ran to my room to get a camera but when I got back out there it was gone.I live in Sneads Ferry N.

C. which is just a small fishing village.Now i've seen some strange things in the night sky because I do astronomy,i've seen the death of a star,two comets collied with each other,and many other things.

But what I seen on December 2001 was not like any thing i've seen before. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. One of three reports from same student.

PD)) ((FOLLOW-UP REPORT FROM SAME SOURCE)) The object that I saw was a saucer shape with lights all around it,and it was longer than a bus. At 9:54 p.m.

Tuesday December 31,2001 I was in my room getting ready for bed but I started hearing some noise so I went out to my living room to look out the back door.I was looking out the door for about 2 minutes then I seen a flash of light I just thought it was a flasu of lightning but then it hit me that it was a clear night,then I saw a saucer shaped craft huvering over a house it had lights all around it,and a dome on the top.It was so close to the house it was almost touching it so I ran back to my room to get a camera but when I got back out there it was gone.

Now i've been keeping this quiet for 4 months,and i'm sorry that I don't have a photograph,but I promise that I will send you one when I see another object.I'm 14 years old I live in Sneads Ferry,N.C.

which is just a small fishing village.Now i've seen some strange things because I do astronomy i've seen the death of a star,and to comets collied with each other.But what I saw on December 31 was not like any thing i've seen before.

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It was far over the trees and I could see windows. The craft was round like a saucer. There were red lights on the bottom and the top was glowing red.

It was a beatiful sight. It was over tree tops.

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Since I have the picture but did not see in this is what the picture shows. I was taking a picture of the strange clouds on this day using a digital camera.I saved the images on the flash card and floppy disk.

When I printed them I noticed an object in the corner of photo.I blew it up and it looks like a flying saucer. I did not see it because I was focusing on the clouds directly in front of me.

This object is in the corner.Two miles down the road I took another picture and the sky was completely clear.

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Round object-didnt behave like meteor or plane After a whole night of watching countless meteors (including one head on, no less, and seeing at least 10 airplanes, I saw something that didnt fit either plane or meteorite.it was about the the size of the end of my index finger, and was going too slow to be a meteor, and too fast to be a plane. It's direction was also too shallow for a meteor.

The thing was bright white, round to slight oval-ish, and went in a 10 degree(?)"landing" slope. that's the part that threw me. I naturally looked for landing lights on it.

It went behind the trees, didnt appear to burn up, and I heard no impact. it left no streak like all the other meteors i had seen that night. ((NUFORC Note: Date should be November 18.

We have amended it here. PD)).

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Flying objects seen while watching Leonid meteor shower I had woken up at 0400 to watch the Leonids meteor shower. Clear skies Temperature apprx 45 degrees. Went out back slidding glass door to see if meteors were visible since I live near large city.

After watching for a minute, saw first meteor, went inside to wake my wife. Returned outside with a blanket so we could lay down and not strain our necks. My wife came out at apprx 0410.

We had been watching for about twenty minutes when I saw objects. They were directly overhead moving from southeast to northwest. I could not tell how high they were, could not make out any detail; except that they were light grey colored, circular, did not have any lights or emit light, and no sound was heard.

They appeared to be the size of a pea at arms length. Being near dawn I initially thought they were aircraft with sunlight reflecting off bottom. But the two craft seemed to change course toward and away from each other several times, which I didnt think any plane would do.

We watched the for about three minutes, till they went out of site. Continued watching meteors for approx ten more minutes, than went inside to get ready for work.

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Three lights in triangular formation. A friend & I were standing on my front porch when I noticed 3 lights in a tight triangular formation almost directly overhead. The lights moved in a circular pattern for a few seconds then rapidly decreased in size & disappeared.

The lights never moved in relation to each other. The sky was very clear. The object made no sound.

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Large triangular shaped object with large blue lights suddenly makes quick u-turn and then hovers miles away. My husband and I were driving and as we approached an intersection near a small airport, there was this large triangular shaped object (very close to the ground) slowly moving over the intersection. As we got closer to it, it had three large blue lights (one in each corner).

About 30 ft from it, it suddenly raised up and made a fast u-turn. In less than 5 seconds it was gone, quickly heading the other way. About 3 miles from the intersection, my husband and I looked back and it seemed to be a hovering bright light at or near the airport.

The strangest thing about the whole ordeal was there was no sound at all. (Note: There was a car about 2 car-lengths in front of us. I am pretty sure they saw it too.

Believe me, you couldn't miss it.).

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brown dot reflective object hovering, then speeding off to the northwest, elon university. At approximately 9:25 am EST I was saw a brown object over head to the nw as I am walking past the Alamance Building at Elon University. I asked another passer by if he could see it and he said no, although I could still see it.

As I was pointing out the object, it starts to speed toward the northwest, beyond some trees which obstructed my view, so I was not able to track it. Incidentally, there were brown leaves falling from the trees, but I could tell the difference between this object and the brown leaves. It was sort of brown in color, with just a hint of a reflective surface.

It did not make any "detectable" sound, and I estimate its height was about 1000 or 2000 feet, although, since it look like it was "small". I put down circle, but really it was just a dot since I could not make out any details besides it was brown and seemed to reflect sunlight. Hope somebody can verify aircraft in the region of Elon University, either meteorologist or air traffic.

I did see a plane about 10 or fifteen minutes later, heading north east, but that was way past the time the unidentified object was out of the vicinity as far as I could tell. Incidentally, I am a skeptic about extra terrestrial craft, but I have seen Unidentified Flying Objects two other times before that had puzzling flight activity. This the first one I have seen during the day.

Thank You For Your Time.

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White dots in a clear blue sky. I looked out my window and saw two planes, at different altitudes, crossing paths and in the same line of sight were 2 round white dots just sitting in the sky. The sky is perfectly bright and blue with no clouds at all.

At first I thought nothing of it and then thought that this is kinda weird. They looked like stars but it's too late in the day and they were too bright and too big to be stars. I went to another room to grab my binoculars and went outside.

When I got outside I was unable to find the objects. I returned to my office and looked out the window again and there they were. I thought maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me.

The whole thing was driving me crazy. I was sure they were really there. Sure enough I found them in the binoculars and watched them.

One was positioned at 12 o'clock and the other below it and to the left at 8 o'clock. As I watched, the lower one moved to the right. Both of them appeared to be followed by a light cloud of smoke, not a stream.

As the lower one approached the 6 o'clock position both of them just disappeared as if they ducked behind a cloud, yet there are no clouds. As I write this description of the event, one hour later, a third or one of the original two has appeared in the same place. This time I took a picture but it surely won't show much as the object is too small and the camera too weak.

As I watched, it has drifted out of sight away from me and upward. I've never thought that I had seen a UFO before, although I have always believed in them. I don't know what a weather balloon looks like but this was definately a unique experience and I'm positive that what I saw was not conventional aircraft.

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I was driving on Mt. Hope Church Road near my home,and I glanced toward the right and saw a jet with a very long jet stream,and then I looked toward the left and saw what at first appeared to be a bird and it was gliding. I eventually saw no evidence of flapping wings,and this thing stayed on a very steady course,it did not waver or wobble the way a bird would eventually do, I decided that it was not a bird, and I only saw it for a few seconds.

I am a member of MUFON as a field invesigator trainee Sincerly, ((name and e-address deleted)).

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aprox. 8:40 EST, white flame shape heading fast for ground, turned 90 degree then looked like short white line It looked like a white flame in the sky moving straight toward and ground. It had no jet trail lines showing the path it had taken.

I made a rather sharp (~90 turn) and when it did it no longer looked like a white flame. It was like I was seeing it in profile at this point because it was a line similar to the look of a white trail that jets leave. Yet it was only as long as the width of my finger when I held my finger up to the sky.

It was moving very quickly. And then as we were driving the tree line obscured it and I could no longer see where it was going. At first I was afraid it was a bomb or missle yet it did that 90 degree turn.

I saw it as about 8:40 eastern standard time. It was a cloudless clear sky.

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A lit pulsating,moving spiroghraph design. I was filming deer in the field behind my home, when i noticed a bright light above the treeline. It appeared to be approx.

a quarter mile away. It appeared to be approx. the size of a distant full moon.

As i videoed the light I zoomed in several times with my Sony 450 x digital zoom. The light appeared to be translucent {like a jellyfish would be under light.} The object pulsates and looks like a moving spirograph design.

I have approx. 2 min of detailed video on digital high eight film. There is also footage of some jumpy wildlife aprox.

1min just befor and after the sighting. At no time was any sound heard from the object. ((NUFORC Note: We spoke with this witness and his wife, and they both seemed quite sincere.

The digital still image forwarded looks like a very small point of light. We will request to look at the video. PD)).

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Metallic Triangular object hovers over Valdese I was returning from Hickory, NC with dinner for my mom & myself from Olive Garden - it was dusk. I turned from the main road into our driveway and I saw an object about 100 feet behind the house, hovering over top of the woods behind the house. I quickly parked the car & ran inside and said to my mom, "get out here now".

By the time we both were outside, the object was hovering right over the driveway - maybe 20 feet above the telephone pole, which is beside the driveway. The object was triangular in shape, was larger than a car and was metallic. It made no noise, and glided through the air unlike any other aircraft I am familiar with.

The object had about 4 or 5 lights on it - multicolored. After we watched it for about a minute, it continued to glide across the sky until it disappeared in the distance. The object moved from North (over the woods) to the South near High Peak Mountain.

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

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Completely black huge circle covered at least a mile I was at work and outside and as I always do I looked Up at the stars and as I did in this night something was very differant , there was a patch of stars missing it looked like but with further observance i saw that they werent missing but were covered up by this huge black circle . It was moving very slowly across the sky but was completely black ,no lights on it at all . I starred at it for awhile til I was called in by my boss and then had her come look at it too .

It was In the paper the next day and is still unidentified . There were no militatry crafts out at the time this happened or airlines through this area either . I wish i knew what is was .

Very strange in deed . ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).

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Cross shaped orange & green lights moving at incredible speed. I am an amatuer astronomer. I know what planes, satellites, & meterorites look like.

This was a formation of lights roughly in the shape of a cross. The cross had 4 orange shaded lights equidisant from each other & had a green light moving from left to right and back again on top of cross. This object was moving from the east to the west at the zenith with incredible speed.

I saw it with my eyes and had my binoculars in hand, as I looked with the binoculars I could not make out any distinguisable surface details. The lights were not blinking but were steady. This was no plane or satellite.

The airport is only 10 miles away but is not up and running because of the events this week.I don't know what it was!.

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September 12th 2001--strange, fast, craft flying and hovering when all planes supposed to be grounded I dont know if this is so much an alien UFO story as it may be a "who knows what kind of alien toys the governments got" UFO story--but since I couldnt tell, it could be either. I remember the exact date of this because it happened the day after the tragedy of September 11th, when all the planes were still grounded--well, I should say they were supposed to be grounded. My wife had went two houses down to visit some of my relatives and I can see the house from my house.

We had been having a problem with some drug addicts that were living down the street breaking into peoples cars at night and since this was around 10pm, I didnt want her to walk up on them by herself so I was sitting outside waiting for her in case she ran into any trouble. I am an amateur astronomer and as any of us can tell you, a "no fly" zone is a dream come true. So I am outside with all my lights turned out and I am sitting at the end of my deck facing that house my wife went to thats maybe 300 yards away and I just happen to look up and sitting there over my head, maybe 3000 or 4000 feet up (hard to tell because it was night) was this light, just sitting there.

It was a good size, maybe 1/15 the visual size of the full moon. No sound, no movement, just stillness, and like a small breeze blowing through the trees suddenly. I could tell it wasnt a planet or star, it was definantly something in our atomosphere.

As I looked at it, the light drew up--like the way the cornea of you eye draws up when you walk from a dark room to the outside on a sunny day. It was still barely there, you almost had to not look at it to see it, it was so dim. Then the dim light took off towards the southeast at an AMAZING speed--it had to be going faster than the speed of sound, but there was no sonic boom.

I have never saw anything move like this. I dont know of any military craft that could go from a hovering position to the speed of sound OR MORE within a second. I am wondering if anyone else saw this craft around that date.

Thanks for reading this.

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Read. This is not a hoax. This is not a prank.

This is real information. I was specifically targeted. My name is ((name deleted)), I have been targeted, tortured and experimented on my entire life.

I am in the middle of an extra-terrestrial war. I believe I have a soul connected to an outer dimensional source, I am physically human, but meta-physically I am an entire different being. I have been protected by the entities you know as the Greys, and they also chipped my neck.

I believe I am the last of my species on this planet. I have a very rare blood type and dna sequence. They have failed to communicate this with me.

I am connected to other races as well, but for my own safety I will not disclose that information. They drug you know as methampetamine is the only drug in existence that has the qualities to allow you to progressively see and connect with these beings on a meta-physical plane of existence. This is why the "drug" is so prohibited, and made illegal.

This chemical offsets the chemical pollutions of our food, and wate! r. The human race is basically a species being observed. The poor are marked as nothing more than food; or cattle.

The rich are the ones gaining financially from the ones they have sacrificed to these beings to save their own skins. It's an intergalactic "thinning of the heard" persay, in conclusion they only act based on our own actions towards other lifeforms on this planet. How we treat animals and lesser beings here, is also how they treat us.

A what you put in, is what you take out perspective. They make actions based on your own actions, if you treat animals in an in-humane way they also do that to us. Remember most of these entities have direct defendants on this planet, just at an animal level.

They watch your every move constantly, ever action or reaction you take apart in is known and recorded. The humans that act on a primitive level get that same treatment. Just on an intergalactic level.

L.

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Bright light coming towards me, then turned and vanished. 8:25 PM EST, Sept 6, 2001, while walking into my garage bringing the trash can in, I noticed a very bright star. I thought, wow look at the north star tonight, but then I noticed that it was brighter than normal and looked more like a spotlight shining towards my direction than a star.

There was absolutely no sound. But it was about the same size in diameter as the stars all around it which made me think this object is extremely far away and not a star, and not an airplane either. I could see no motion, no blinking, and no flickering whatsever.

Then all of the sudden the light went dim, it was about exactly the same brightness of the stars around it then. And to my astonishment, it started moving Northeast in the sky away from me and faded away after about 3 to 5 seconds. The sky was absolutely clear, stars all around it clearly visible, but this object completely disappeared in just seconds.

It was obvious that this object was headed towards the ground, then made a sudden turn and went the other direction. It did not cast a beam of light in the new direction it was headed which also makes me believe it was way up there above the atmospheric dust and moisture. I have never reported anything like this before, nor have I ever seen anything that I couldn't explain either.

But I am absolutely sure this was no plane, no meteor, or anything that I have ever seen before. I feel extremely fortunate to have seen this and doubt I'll ever see another one, but I would love to hear from anyone who might have seen this thing as well. After thinking about this incident for about 45 minutes and explaining it to my wife I decided to log into the internet to see if there was a place to log such sitings and I came accross this site.

I am not a UFO enthusiest or anything but I thought I would share it with someone who might appreciate it. I wrote this about 1 hour after I saw it while the incident was still fresh on my mind. j.

baynard.