North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2005

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About 3 years ago right after Christmas I saw what I now believe to be a UFO. At about 11:30 pm my brother and I were outside watching for shooting stars. One star appeared to get larger in diameter and was coming straight down.

We both moved back in our chairs because it looked as if it were coming at us. Then it stopped and went back up and got smaller and then shot off to the south and then just disappeared. I was very fast may 20 seconds.

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Stealth-like transparent triangular object makes incredible maneuver and disappears Please note: I am filing this report more than two months later as I did not know about this site. All I remember is that thic incidence either happened on the 24th, 25th, or 26th of December, 2005. I was leaving the town center of Conover and driving on 1st Street West towards Interstate I-40.

As I looked out of the car windshield I got a mental shock as I thought a aircraft-crash is going to happen. It "looked like" in the first moment like a fighter plane with triangular solid shape (no distinctive wings) in a sort of stealthy transparent grey, flying straight down (totally vertical) from maybe one mile above ground (when I started to see it). I thought it will fly straight into the ground, at extremely high speed.

I guess a speed of at least 1000-2000 mph. I was in shock at this point and made a significant "sigh" that my female friend said: "WHAT???!". I couldn't answer; my thought was: "it's going to crash!".

But in that moment, maybe 600 feet above ground, it made a very sharp right-angular turn away from us, into a horizontal flight pattern, climbing up in an approximately 30 degree angle. But "the object" disappeared SUDDENLY after about one second into "nothing". No trail, nothing.

Due to being in the car I can not say if there was a sound; I heared no sound. Observation: No conventional technology aircraft could have made a sort of 90 degree turn at THAT speed. The G-force of that turn would have been incredible (impossible to a human pilot) by earthly standards.

The sudden disappearance was not just a fast fading out of sight, it was a SUDDEN; disappearance. I have a private pilot's licence. I am a graduated technical engineer.

What I saw would be impossible to perform with conventional aircraft technology. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD)).

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Disc-shape object hovering 30 ft above house - lights blinking with siren-like sound. Object left very quickly within seconds. I walked outside to take my dog out and it had a kindof loud wistling noise.

I looked in the sky and saw it. It was huge, it was grey basicly all around and had a oval shaped door in the middle. I t had flashing rainbow colored lights on the bottom of it.

My dog saw it and started barking and it took off at the speed of light. It looked like it just fanished into thin air. When it left all the trees started going back and forth of how fast it left.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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I witnessed a rapid moving and stopping light in the sky. I was walking my dog early, before sunrise, and saw this thing that looked like a star suddenly bolt down towards the treetops and stop. It then suddenly bolted back out into space (I assume) at a slight angle.

I remember the constellation Orion was in the West-southwest sky. I can't imagine any technology on this earth that could do what I saw, except on a smaller scale, flicking a laserpointer at a dark wall. ((NUFORC Note: Source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate.

PD)).

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A cylindrical object drops from the air, stops, hovers to the right and disappears. I was standing at the bus stop, looked up and saw what looked like a rocket at first, coming down from up in the sky and it stopped in mid-air. It was shaped like a cylinder and it slowly drifted from our view to our right until it was out of view.

It was only one object and it was silver in color. The background was clear sky and there were trees, but the object was way above the trees.

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lights in a circular allignment that went from light to dim over and over again. Me and my mother were on our way home from the grocery store when i was looking out the window and I saw a light in the sky. It almost looked like a star but it was too bright and too low in the sky to be one.

I told my mother to look and she saw it too. we had no idea what it was or what it could be. Another indication that it was not a star, was that usually when your driving, you can never drive ahead of a star, its usually ahead or above you.

But this wasnt a star, in fact it was way to bright to be one. I kept an eye on it and eventually we pulled over and watched it for about 5-10 minutes. All of a sudden it got brighter, and then dimmer, and then brighter, and then dim again and again.

we started towards home,and we couldnt really see it so my mom told me to look in our spare bedroom window to see if it was still there. when i went upstairs and looked out the window it was. I told my mom that i could see it and kept watching, then all of a sudden, it started doing the brighter dimmer routine again.

it went from light to dim, light to dim. then i saw about seven or eight other lights form a circle. That included the original one too.

I called my mom upstairs and as she was comming up the stairs the lights went dim again until it was only one light. then just the one light kept going dim and bright dim and bright. during this routine it got so dim that it actually looked like a normal star.

but then it got bright again. and then dim and then bright. then it got dimer and dimmer and dimmer until it didnt shine again, and then it was gone.

We called the police and asked if there were any other reports. There werent. I hope this will help you some.

Thank you. ((NUFORC Note: Witness does not indicate time of sighting. We wonder whether the witnesses may have been looking at Venus, or another celestial body.

PD)).

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Odd, slow moving dull red fireball leaving a trail. A dull reddish-orange fireball appeared coming form the west and disappeared into the east. It was not very bright as with the other two fireballs I have witnessed in 30 years of observing the sky.

It left trail that glowed for approx. 5 seconds. Facing north it was approx.

60 to 70 degrees above the horizon. The odd thing was how slow it moved across the sky. I have seen hundreds of meteors (I am an amateur astronomer) and I have never seen one move this slowly before.

The other three witnesses agreed that it was moving a lot slower than any meteor they had observed before. I don't know exactly how to put this into words, but the whole event was just odd. I've never seen a meteor moving due east like that, nor acting like it did.

It just kept heading east, never growing brighter or dimmer. This was definitely not an airplane or a satellite, after all it left a trail.

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A dark object with dull lights 200-300 yrds up in the sky , moving in total silence At 7:45 pm est 11/29/05 ,(one hour ago) I was standing on my deck which faces south. I happened to look up in the south sky I noticed a grouping of lights moving across the sky, moving east to west through our valley. They were dull lights and the object seemed to blend with the dark sky background .

It moved in total silence .I listened for a moment and could hear nothing. It looked as if it was 200-300 yards up ,about the size ,if you hold 3 fingers horizontal at arms length in front of you .

((NUFORC Note: We spoke with this witness via telephone, and he seemed quite credible to us. PD)).

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Another sighting in Burnsville,NC 11/29/05 1.) Let me correct the Burnsville ,NC sighting reports I made. On the first report the hour time is 19:45 hours on the update the day date is 11/29 .

thank you 2.)Today I heared of a second sighting in Burnsville, NC on 11/29/05. I was in Appalachian Java, a little coffee shop we have on Main street.

I met a friend I hadn't seen for a while and started telling (yet again) about the event of the 29th,when the owner of the shop offers that another person was in a couple of weeks ago saying ,her sister saw somthing also. He told me her name and after returning home I made contact with the sister and her husband. this is what he told me; he came home soon after dark.

After a ''short while'' (didn't mention the time) he went to the car for something, he noticed a group of lights different (bright white and red) in the sky moving in strange patterns the sky. The lowest being 10 degrees above the horizen (he said ,that one being in the direction of my house ). His wife brought binoculars from the house and he tryed to focus on the crafts, but he said they didn't seem to ''hold a shape''.

His wife lost interest after about a minute . He watched them for about 5 minutes until the last one ,the one in the direction of my house, ''faded'' from view.

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I REPORTED THIS ON 11/28/05 .AFTER VIEWING THE ANGLES AND LAND MARKS,THIS IS WHAT I OBSERVED. I WAS STANDING 14' ABOVE GROUND ON MY DECK .

IT WAS A CLEAR NIGHT. I WAS FACING SOUTH-WEST WHEN A BLUEISH/WHITE LIGHT COUGHT MY EYE IN THE SOUTH SKY .IT WAS OBSCURED BY THE BRANCHES OF AN ALMOST BARE APPLE TREE.

IT MOVED INTO AN UNOBSTRUCTED VIEW AS IT MOVED FROM EAST TO WEST .ABOUT 300 YARDS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF AN OLD PASTURE, ABOUT LEVEL VIEW OFF MY DECK IS A ROW OF TALL LOCUST TREES .BEHIND THE TREES IS A DIM LIGHT FROM A STREET ANOTHER 200-300 YARDS AWAY .

AS THE LIGHTS PAST INTO THE CLEARING ,THE LOCUST DID NOT OBSCURE THE LIGHTS ,AS THE APPLE TREE DID.I COULD MAKE OUT A FAINT LINE OF A CRAFT BETWEEN THE TWO END LIGHTS .THERE WERE 2 DIMMER LIGHTS ,ONE ABOVE THE OTHER IN THE MIDDLE .

SIZE? IF I WERE TO HOLD MY ARM OUT ,WITH 2 FINGERS ,FROM THE TIP OF MY FINGER TO THE CROOK OF MY THUMB ,WAS ITS SIZE. IT THEN MOVED ,WITHOUT A SOUND ,WEST IN THE DIRECTION OF MADISON COUNTY ,NC.

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Driving North on Route 55 in Apex, NC. I noticed a triangular light pattern, I thought it was an airplane heading directly at me. As I approached I realized it wasn't moving.

I then thought it was a cell tower lights, I got right beside the object and stopped. I could clearly see it, it was approximatly 300 yards to the left and above me. As my vehicle came to a stop, I rolled the window down and one more person slowed their vehicle beside me and stared as well.

The object began to move with a low huming sound. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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Teardrop UFO appearance I woke up to go to the bathroom, and I noticed a really powerful light outside. I thought it was a street light, but as I turned to look, it was this small bottom heavy thing that was humming and glowing bright white/green. I opened my window to check it closer up, but it just shot straight up so fast my eyes couldn't follow it.

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Crystal clear sky. Several orange-white objects,in formation,RAPIDLY changing positions,front to back, side to side, looping, suddenly dispiriting one and two in a moment in all directions at UNBELIEVEABLE speeds. Appox mag -.

02 No sound. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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Two strange lights with planes chasing over Greensboro, NC. As I was driving home, I looked up into the sky and saw two strange bright lights. These lights were moving very slowly, and there seemed to be a lot of planes out.

As one plane got extremely close to one of the lights, the light took straight off up and I couldn't find the plane or the other light again after this. It was very odd and it scared me a lot.

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Saw a small, bright object move across the sky, come to a complete stop, and begin flying in circles. The object was about the size of a plane in the night sky. It was bright white, with no blinking lights at all.

I assumed it was a satellite or possibly the International Space Station, as any airplane flying that low would surely have visible blinking lights. Two friends and I (all of whom are, in fact, college students) saw the light move east across the sky in a straight path. It was somewhat faster than an airplane, but still slow enough for us to stand and watch it move for a good minute or so.

Then the object came to a complete stop in the sky, just above Mars. We continued watching it further, and the object grew considerably fainter. Then, it began to slowly fly in irregular circles for about ten minutes or so before finally fading away.

All three of us saw it move across the sky, stop, and begin circling, and all of us agreed on the direction it was moving. ((NUFORC Note: The ISS pass over Wilmington at 18:11-18:15 hrs. on this date.

Hence, if the time above is approximate, the witnesses may have been witness to its overflight. 17 Nov 1.3 17:45:35 10 N 17:47:14 14 NNE 17:48:21 12 NE 17 Nov 2.

7 19:19:53 10 WNW 19:19:58 11 WNW 19:19:58 11 WNW 18 Nov -0.3 18:11:01 10 NNW 18:13:50 40 NE 18:14:35 33 ENE 19 Nov 0.5 18:37:21 10 WNW 18:40:11 40 SW 18:41:12 29 S 20 Nov -0.

5 17:28:22 10 NW 17:31:16 47 NE 17:34:08 10 ESE http://www.heavens-above.com/passsummary.

asp?lat=34.226&lng=-77.945&alt=6&loc=Wilmington&TZ=EST&satid=25544&Date=38668.

7083333333&Mag= PD)).

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Two red dots next to each other over South Charlotte, NC, heading towards Matthews, NC, (East) about 2000 feet? I was walking my dog just before 7pm when I saw two red lights heading my way from the west. At first I thought it was a plane because I can see flights coming or going from the airport from here everyday in the distance. I'll try to describe best I can.

You know how planes have a light at the end of the each wing. it looked like that . one on each end, both red, solid, not blinking.

It came from my west point of view.(yes, towards the airport kind of.) But the strange thing for me is that their was nothing between the lights? It flew directly above me at about 1500ft no higher than 2000ft at the most heading to Matthews, NC, my Northeast.

I could see in between the two red dots to see stars when it moved across the sky where if it was say a plane you'd see the two red dots then if it crossed a path of the star it would obstruct the few of the star for a second but it didn't. I couldn't hear any engines and it moved somewhat across the sky like a plane would but I had a GOOD look at for at least 30 seconds. Nothing I've ever seen before and I'm always looking at the stars when walking my dog at night.

I was just hoping someone else might have seen this also. I'm not easily floored but it was a weird experience. Any suggestions?.

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bright lights seen over northwest Fayetteville I had been talking to my girlfriend on the phone and locking my gate when I had seen what I thought was a plane crashing and which was heading directly towards my neighborhood but had was still a couple miles away there where no saound and it looked to be listing to the left and descending slowly but then tilted severely to the left and turned heading away from Fayettville to the north west.

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Yellow fireball object, viewed from lexinton, NC I was on my way to pick up my son from karate class and while driving I was on the phone talking to my mother. All of a sudden I saw a fireball in the sky It appear going the same direction I was going and I thought a meteorite but as soon as I finishe my thought it stopped.I started to scream on the phone to my mom I have to stop (several times), I stopped and it went down to the left it disappear from my sight (there were trees)for a a second or two.

I was static. and I saw it again coming up to the same point in the sky where it had stopped. It was big I put my fist against the fireball shape and I still could see the edges of it; It started moving to the right in a downward direction.

same thing happened it disappear from my sight (there were trees) for a a second or two. This time it appeared moving horizontally from right to left and that was it I did not see it again. I waited about 20 minutes just in case but I had to leave and pick up my son (needles to say I was late picking him up).

I must have put the Mobile phone down because when I pick it up from the passenger seat my mom was so worried she thought I was in some kind of danger. She said I was saying " oh my god! oh my god!. what the heck is that?.

it is here again.where is it going? what is it doing? why is my body tingling (like electricity) I felt like that for a couple of hours (It must have been my adrenaline). I could not appreciate how far it was from my position because it was dark.

I think probably a mile or 2.

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Fireball seen after 10 shooting stars What i saw: At same moment my attention was caught by many shooting stars all moving in burst of maybe 10 or so in top of sky from East to West near Mars. Appearing in a group like shooting stars in their nature. A few secs later i saw a bright glowing ball appear in the sky in this same area, an object i would call a fireball and move with less speed also East to West and vanish behind a cloud and for a moment causing lighting of the cloud.

It did not see it come out of the other side. More so i had my camera with me and i GOT THE THING in 3 PICS! I saw no signs of intelligent flight, but i can say it seemed to slow down as it moved and was VERY bright and color shifted from yellow to red. Obviously if i had time to raise my camera and snap 3 photos it was not moving nearly as fast as what a shooting star's nature would be.

I was able to keep sight of the object for about 8 secs on its pass over. On the largest photo you can see Mars and get an idea of the level of zoom was minimal (did not have time to zoom) Object was moving about 5 times as fast as a jet would cross the sky and was EXTREMELY bright when you compare it to Mars and realize how bright Mars was in the nighttime sky to your eye. I had my camera against a tree and the streaking does not appear in Mars only in this object.

Light it was giving off seemed to flicker and was very unusual in appearance besides the color change.

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sat on porch n saw a sparkling light was chages colors red-green-yellow flashing staying in one spot below a few stars * darkness facing along beach and home faces NW beach is left of my home/poarch ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information. PD)).