North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2002

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A friend and I saw a round shape/object filled with strong white light cross the sky in a descend leaving smoky trace A friend and I were sitting by the window talking, when suddenly I saw CLEARLY a very well defined round white-light-filled shape crossing slowly the sky in a descend. my mouth must have been so open because my friend rushed to me shook me. all i could was shout Oh myh God, and w/o even pointing to her the object I rushed outside.

By the time I got out I couldn't see it anymore, but we both observed a VERY unusual thick white smoky trace the type that airplanes leave. The trace disappeared in midair. Strangely, we both felt an incredibly strong energy current both inside and around, like suddenly the entire area had been charged with an electric charge of super strength.

What ensued was even more puzzling - a strong and continuous cacaphony of animal noises - wild barking of dogs most notably - permeated the air until 3 am. I couldn't sleep that nite even for an hr. I felt agitated, but also electrified, like I have been toughed with an electrifying stick.

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We tracked a large cigar shaped object accross town until it went out of view over the treeline. As we exited off the highway to go into the city, I spotted the big, bright light in the sky. It was straight ahead of us about 150 feet off the ground and about 2 miles away.

The sky was thinly veiled in clouds, the crescent moon and some stars still visible behind them. The light we saw was almost as large as the crescent moon and almost as bright.It was on the underside of the clouds, and was clearly visible.

It was a cigar shape and moved with as we drove into the city. We were traveling at 60 mph. and as the object flew with us, covered a much greater distance in the same time.

I would guess it traveled about 150 mph. We got caught at what seemed like every stop light trying to follow the light as it passed over the town and away toward the next town. We kept up the best we could and finally lost sight of it as it disapeared over the tree line about 5 miles away.

At this point, we were way out in the country and no roads lead in the direction the object flew. Just farm and swampland. The object must have been of huge dimensions as we could tell it was always at least a couple miles away for most of the chase, but was still as big as moon.

I tried to call the local airport to see if they had any anomolous aircraft on radar, but no one answered the phone.

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UFO spotted in my neighborhood. We had left church to take some girls home. My friend and I were returning to church to get her truck.

We were getting ready to turn to go to church when my friend said look what is that? I said it looks like a UFO. She said I thought so too. So we kept going straight to it to get a closer look.

We got closer and it looked like a saucer shape and had lights and looked like it was spinning and blinking it had a circle around it. It kind of sat in the sky blinking and spinning. We got closer and it went down behind some trees.

We waited then started to leave and it came back up for a split second and then was gone. It was a weird feeling. I have never seen anything like that.

It was not a plane because it was too big and it wasn't moving at first.

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UFO SEEN HOOVERING IN A NEARBY FIELD It resembled a flying saucer and was very large in size. It's width was about the size of three houses. The bottom never touched the ground.

It was just hoovering above the ground. It never made a sound, neither did it produce any wind around it. Put it this way; It was so quiet that you could hear the crickets outside.

The sky was so clear that you could see the stars that night. It never came out of the nearby field where we had spotted it until we began to move.(we had paused beside the road when we saw it) When we began to move into the opposite direction that we were traveling, it also moved into that direction also.

It was a very bright object that had small windows all the way around it. We never really got the chance to see the back of the ufo but I do Know that it's shape never changed. It was very calm and didn't appear to be harmful.

It did follow us about a mile down the road and never came close. I do believe that it was aware of us. After awhile it later took off with excessive speed across some nearby trees.

The only thing visible then was a bright light similar to the moon. It shot off in the air upward.

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6737.6599.html reported in my local paper Unidentified object spotted over Grifton By Jana Clancey, The Daily Reflector Creatures from outer space may have been checking on the affairs of Pitt County residents Friday night.

Several people from Farmville to the southern tip of Pitt County reported an odd light racing across the night sky. J.K.

Butler, a former Grifton volunteer firefighter, was sitting in the old Red and White parking lot about 11 p.m. Friday.

He was there with three fire department friends when the sky around them lighted up, coloring everything from the ground to the trees to themselves a strange shade of green and blue. The light passed over them, he said. And when they looked up, it was so blinding they couldn't identify the object.

"We all just looked at each other like, 'What in the world was that?'" Butler said. "I've seen meteors and space junk and satellites. I ain't never seen anything that color.

"It had some good size to it, too, and it was up in the air pretty good," he said. His first thought: the light had come from a UFO. His second: another country was firing missiles in the direction of Pitt County.

"Maybe it was government-related. If it was, we'll never know," he said. Over the fire-rescue scanners mounted in the volunteers' trucks, calls came in from Ayden and the Pitt County Sheriff's Office.

Butler heard patrol cars being dispatched to check for something that had fallen from the sky in the area of Jolly and Abbott Farm roads. Sgt. Marty Burroughs sent three of his deputies to survey for damage, or possibly, a spacecraft between the Ayden Police Department and the two rural roads.

They didn't find a thing, not even a small piece of space tin. "The main thing we checked were houses to make sure nobody had been hit by anything," he said. Deputies found the houses to be safe and left the area.

Burroughs had a dispatcher contact Lenoir and Greene county sheriff's departments to see if a craft had crashed beyond the county line. But nothing was reported. A deputy in Ayden and several Greenville officers reported seeing the peculiar light near Pitt Community College at Fire Tower Road and N.

C. 11 "They just said it was moving and it appeared to be descending," he said. Asked if he thought the light was a UFO, Burroughs said, "It could have been.

I don't know. I can't explain it. Sheriff Mac Manning jokingly chalked the sighting up to the work of a shiny red sled and nine flying reindeer.

"I thought it was maybe Santa Claus making an early run, but we ruled that out pretty quick," Manning said. Apparently, he said, the light was bright enough and big enough to attract quite a bit of attention. Manning said the sighting of whatever-it-was isn't a big deal.

Deputies patrolling remote areas of the county report seeing things in the sky all of the time, he said. Whatever it was, it scared J.K.

Butler — and his buddies. For two hours they watched the night sky, looking for something, anything that could help complete the puzzle to what they had seen; whether that be little green men or a plane with similar lights. He was asked if he'd recently been watching the Sci-Fi channels series on UFOs called "Taken.

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12/6/02 10:55 pm EST. Bright blue ball appears and moves quickly through the sky. About 10:55 pm Friday Dec.

6th my roomate and I were outside our house at Wrightsville Beach, NC. We saw a bright light blue ball light up and drop down towards the west. It was almost blinding and only lasted a few seconds.

We were on a second story porch, facing the south and it was in the sky at about a 45 degree angle in the sky.

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A white circle about the size of my thumb at arm's length. I was driving around in my truck with my girlfriend. It was about 2:30pm.

The sky was clear. I looked above this hotel and saw a white circle. It was about the size of my thumb at arm's length.

This thing stood motionless in the sky. It was way too big to be any sort of star. A perfect circle.

My girfriend and I watched this thing for a few seconds wondering what it was and then traffic started to move. We drove down the road but never saw it again.

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white flickering light hovering slowly with green strobe lights like a police car real phant though,but it didnt look like a star. i was outside smoking a cigarette when i noticed sw. of the little dipper a bright white flickering light accasually it got brighter like a flash light being aimed at you for a second or past you quikly.

but if you looked close you could see real faint green strobe lights like a police cars lights.there was only 1 that i seen ,it appeared pretty high in the sky but it didnt look like a star. it was silent and hovered it appeared and then i noticed it was moving real gradually to the east real slow because i started losing it behind the trees in my yard but two other stars south of the little dipper didnt move from over top of the other tree that i was comparing the movment to .

it was about 20 degrees outside and crystal clear out.i even showed my wife but she dosnt believe in this kind of stuff so !thats what i saw.

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It was a large, triangular shaped flying object. I was watching the moon when all of a sudden I saw a light appear from behind the clouds. It moved very quickly, almost like it wuz moving with the clouds.

When it got a little closer, I could make out a large triangular shaped craft of some kind with a red glow in the center and a strong soft white glow going around it. It moved quickly over my head and the vanished into the clouds. This was about 5 minutes before the sun began to come up.

My friend saw it to, so i know i wasn't seeing something normal.

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11/19/02 Lumberton, NC Diamond shape with 4 dull green lights flying from S to N @ 500 ft made no sound. On or around the 19 Nov, 02 I was driving on a rural road outside lumberton NC proper. It was dark outside but it was clear and the stars were visible.

Although there were many trees around there was an open field around me for at least 500 to 700 meters. I saw out fo the corner of my eye an object with no other lights except a dull green color. I know that most aircraft have red, and plain white lights with at least one blinking light on either wing.

The object was at least 300 to 400 meters ahead of me flying at least 500 feet or tree top level from a south to north direction. I pulled over on the side of the road and noticed through my sunroof that the aircraft was diamond shape with 4 dull green lights at each corner. There were no discernible details ofthe aircraft but I could see its shape against the sky.

As I rolled the window down the aircraft had already crossed my path, but I heard no engines or propellers. The aircraft just left without a sound. I have just fin ished a 20 year hitch in the Army, I have jumped out of C130, C141, and other rotary aircraft and know what they sound like.

But this aircraft left no type of exhaust or other sound signature behind. I never beleived in UFOs untill now. Ft.

Bragg and Pope air Force Base are only 50 miles away, but their aircraft fly through this airspace all the time. These aircraft do not I repeat do not fly as low as this aircraft flew.

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WHILE WATCHING METEOR SHOWER, LOOKING STRAIGHT UP THERE WAS AN AREA WHERE MOST OF THE METEORS SEEMED TO BE COMING FROM. I NOTICED A SATELLITE MOVING INTO THIS AREA THEN THERE APPEARED 2 FOOTBALL SHAPED OBJECTS EACH WITH MULTIPLE ORANGE LIGHTS (APPR. 5 OR 6) TRAVELING NORTH-NORTHWEST FASTER THEN THE SATELLITE BUT SLOWER THAN THE METEORS.

THEY LASTED ABOUT 20-30 SECONDS. AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS ONE LARGE PLANE, BUT THEN THE ONE ON THE LEFT MOVED DIRECTLY BEHIND THE OTHER. THEN I THOUGHT IT WAS PROBABLY TWO FIGHTER JETS.

THEN THE ONE BEHIND BEGAN MOVING EXTREMELY FAST AND ERRATIC SIDE TO SIDE FORWARD AND BACKWARDS. MOVEMENTS THAT A FIGHTER JET COULD NOT DO TO MY KNOWLEGED. MY DAD WAS A COL.

IN THE AIR-FORCE AND I'M 48 YEARS OLD AND HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS. WHAT COULD IT BE?.

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V shaped object with no sound and colorful lights moving across sky at low altitude. The object was at low altitude. It was moving at the speed of a commercial airliner.

It was "V" shaped and there was no sound coming from the object. There was several colors of light along the entire "V". I observed the object moving in a North East direction for several minutes.

As the object moved away no sound was ever heard coming from the object such as would be in the case of a jet or prop plane. It was a very clear night with a full moon. The only sound heard was dogs barking from a distance.

When first observed the lights at the left end of the "V" shape from the rear seemed to be spinning in a circular motion.

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It was just light bright yellow light I saw three lights all bright yellow. I didnt know if they were planets or planes or something. But they moved around.

They were in sideways triangle shape and the point was faceing to my right. The middle light moved into the middle and the the top light dissapered and then the bottom moved behind the trees. I have no clue but i dont see them anymore.

You must get this a lot i just dont know if it was a planet or satalight so i dont know if it was something but it looked weird. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain semi-anonymous. PD)).

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Strange lights over Queen Mountain My husband and I had just gone to bed. We saw a flashing light that we thought was lightning but the flashes were very fast and bright. We got out of bed and looked out the window.

We saw over the adjacent Mountain ( Queen Mountain) there was a light flashing. It was lighting up the entire sky and the valley. The light was flashing white then red.

At first we thought maybe a car had hit a power line because after we saw the flashes the power went off. But we went down the road where the lights had been flashing and we found nothing out of the ordinary. Our neighbors had power.

We still don't know what could have caused the l;ights. We don't live in the city, we live on the outskirts of a small town. Farming areas.

We have never seen anything like these lights ever. I have lived here my entire life and this is a first for me. Please can you give me an answer.

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On November 1 2002 I observed four, chevron shaped flying objects in the sky that had an orange glow and were about the size of stars. I was standing on a picnic table while taking the dog out. I was looking up at the stars when out of nowhere appeared one unidentified flying object.

At first I thought it was a shooting star, but then two more appeared and at first I thought, "Weill that is odd" and then a fourth appeared. They were all a glowing orange in a chevron shape and about the size of large stars. The first three flew in a V, one in front and two on either side and slightly behind.

The fourth flew to the right of the three and just before disappearing fell into formation and the four were a diamond. I don't think that they were Earthly crafts because of how fast they flew and the odd orage glow they gave off. Not to mention they appeared to be far away and did not appear nor disappear into a horizon.

It was a clear night and they just were there, flew over my head and were gone. ((NUFORC Note: Please see other seemingly similar reports from KS and VA for this date. PD)).

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I SAW 2 DISK SHAPED OBJECTS OUTSIDE MY WINDOW. WELL I WENT TO MY ROOM TO RELAX AND AT 7:00PM I HAD SAW SOME LIGHTS OUT SIDE AND I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS THE STREET LIGHTS. SO I IGNORED IT AND AT 7:28PM IT WAS STILL OUT THERE SO I WENT TO GO AND SEE WHAT IT WAS.

AND WHEN I WENT TO THE WINDOW THERE WERE 2 DISK SHAPED OBJECTS HOVERING OUTSIDE MY WINDOW. I SAW LIGHTS CIRCLING AROUND THE DISK SHAPED OBJECT THE LIGHTS WERE GREEN, YELLOW, WHITE, RED, AND PINK. THEY STAYED THERE FOR ABOUT 3 TO 5 MINUTES AND THEN THEY SLOWLY WENT TO THE LEFT.

AND I WENT TO MY OTHER WINDOW AND I COULD STILL SEE THEM GOING DOWN THE STREET. I WAS IN SHOCK I COULDN'T MOVE OR SCREAM FOR ANYONE. IT WAS VERY CALM OUTSIDE THERE WAS NO WIND BLOWING NOTHING WENT OFF AND I DIDN'T HEAR ANY NOISES.

IT WAS SO QUIET I COULDN'T HEAR ANYTHING ELSE. I WAS FIXED ON THE DISKED SHAPED OBJECTS. I WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT SAW THEM.

I WAS THE ONLY PERSON IN THE ROOM AT THE TIME. I ONLY SAW THEM FOR 3-5 MINUTES BUT THEY WERE THERE FOR 30. ((NUFORC Note: No other witnesses indicated.

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((NUFORC Note: We express our gratitude to The Daily Reflector, Grifton, NC, for permission to reprint their article here. PD)) Dear NUFORC: (article text and link found below) Feel free to forward this e-mail. This article ran today (Wed.

Dec 11 2002) in the 'Daily Reflector' which is owned by Cox Communications and serves over 8 counties in Eastern NC. I do not know if they loaded the article up on the AP wire. The event they describe of a large UFO sightings by a lot of people including law enforcement and fire / rescue workers took place over small towns surrounding Greenville, NC.

Greenville is a metro area with over 60,000 citizens. I have forwarded this article because I believe a broader readership would be interested in the story. A scientific explanation or inquiry would be warranted.

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html Unidentified object spotted over Grifton By Jana Clancey, The Daily Reflector: Unidentified object spotted over Grifton By Jana Clancey, The Daily Reflector Creatures from outer space may have been checking on the affairs of Pitt County residents Friday night. Several people from Farmville to the southern tip of Pitt County reported an odd light racing across the night sky. J.

K. Butler, a former Grifton volunteer firefighter, was sitting in the old Red and White parking lot about 11 p.m.

Friday. He was there with three fire department friends when the sky around them lighted up, coloring everything from the ground to the trees to themselves a strange shade of green and blue. The light passed over them, he said.

And when they looked up, it was so blinding they couldn't identify the object. "We all just looked at each other like, 'What in the world was that?'" Butler said. "I've seen meteors and space junk and satellites.

I ain't never seen anything that color. "It had some good size to it, too, and it was up in the air pretty good," he said. His first thought: the light had come from a UFO.

His second: another country was firing missiles in the direction of Pitt County. "Maybe it was government-related. If it was, we'll never know," he said.

Over the fire-rescue scanners mounted in the volunteers' trucks, calls came in from Ayden and the Pitt County Sheriff's Office. Butler heard patrol cars being dispatched to check for something that had fallen from the sky in the area of Jolly and Abbott Farm roads. Sgt.

Marty Burroughs sent three of his deputies to survey for damage, or possibly, a spacecraft between the Ayden Police Department and the two rural roads. They didn't find a thing, not even a small piece of space tin. "The main thing we checked were houses to make sure nobody had been hit by anything," he said.

Deputies found the houses to be safe and left the area. Burroughs had a dispatcher contact Lenoir and Greene county sheriff's departments to see if a craft had crashed beyond the county line. But nothing was reported.

A deputy in Ayden and several Greenville officers reported seeing the peculiar light near Pitt Community College at Fire Tower Road and N.C. 11 "They just said it was moving and it appeared to be descending," he said.

Asked if he thought the light was a UFO, Burroughs said, "It could have been. I don't know. I can't explain it.

Sheriff Mac Manning jokingly chalked the sighting up to the work of a shiny red sled and nine flying reindeer. "I thought it was maybe Santa Claus making an early run, but we ruled that out pretty quick," Manning said. Apparently, he said, the light was bright enough and big enough to attract quite a bit of attention.

Manning said the sighting of whatever-it-was isn't a big deal. Deputies patrolling remote areas of the county report seeing things in the sky all of the time, he said. Whatever it was, it scared J.

K. Butler — and his buddies. For two hours they watched the night sky, looking for something, anything that could help complete the puzzle to what they had seen; whether that be little green men or a plane with similar lights.

He was asked if he'd recently been watching the Sci-Fi channels series on UFOs called "Taken." He said he'd never heard of it, and after being informed of the show's angle on alien abductions, he said there's no way he's watching it now. Email this page to a friend By using this service you accept the terms of our Visitor Agreement.

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noticed 5 round object at about 5000 ft above raleigh air port, watched for 5 minutes sitting in my daughters school parking lot I noticed 5 round objects very high in the air. in a v formation. moving slowly.

cant think of the north or south directions. they seemed to be about 4 to 5 thousand feet up. my location was about 3 miles from the Raleigh durham air port so there were other air craft in the area I was sitting directly under the flight path.

well the ufos I saw were just black did not give me any reflection from the sun it was a very clear day.at arms lenght I could have coverd all of them with my thumb. as they flew over the two bottom or trailing objects sort of broke off and randomly flew around the other three that stayed in a v shape.

it took them about 5 minutes to cover the hole span of sky. I stopped the lady getting out of the car next to mine and had her look at them she looked at them for a second said they werent ufos and walked away. I asked her if they mighet be birds and she said they looked very high and were just little black dots to her.

well I do not know what they were but thought you might be able to find out from the airport if they had any strange flights high bove the air port that day. I thought they might be large bird and not thet high but the formation they flew didnt sit right with me.I am a military brat and spent a tour in the Navy sort of remember how planes fly and grew up duck hunting in Louisiana done quite a bit of watching birds fly also.

cant say it wasnt birds but would like to hear if the air port says they had anything on their radar.

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A UFO stopped ower car, car lost all power and possible abduction. A small bright light went In front of my car and stopped the car and went under the car it seemed like and when it went away a phew minuts later I have no memory of what happond in that phew minuts my mom dident have any memory eather.

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Red and white lights seen over Holden Beach, NC On the evening of the 19th of September my husband and I were fishing on Holden Beach when we noticed on the horizon to the Southeast at about low cloud level bright red lights appearing in the sky and then fading out after about 3 to 5 seconds. These were large lights. At one time early in the sighting one of the red lights split into two red lights and faded at the same time.

After we had watched these lights for about 10 minutes my husband stood up to to walk down to the surf to reel his fishing line in and suddenly just beyond the surf and very close to us, four white lights lit up one at a time in a row as if they were attached to something, I yelled at my husband to look up and he also witnessed them. These lights stayed lit for about 3 to 5 seonds and faded out. Just after these lights when out the red lights on the horizon lit up again.

One at a time the red lights would light up and fade after about 3-5 seconds. I ran into the house to get binoculars and told my father in law to come out and watch. He came out with me and my husband said while I was in the house 2 more red lights had lit up in the sky.

As soon as I sat down 2 more red lights lit up and one of the lights emitted a beam from the side of it and within the beam were small white lights in a row. After the last two red lights we saw nothing else for the rest of the night. My father in law was witness to the last 2 red lights.

There were no aircraft in the area at this time.