North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2009

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Blue-white fire ball over Durham Driving home on Hwy 147 towards Hillsborough, saw a large blue-white falling ball with a blue-white tail 2 1/2 times as large as object out of passenger side window. Looked like it could be a comet, but color was wrong. It looked close by, falling towards earth then it was gone.

It appeared to be about 1/4 mile away. Went home thinking I would see somthing about it on the news, because many people were sure to have seen it. Nothing was ever mentioned about it.

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Slow moving White lights moving from north to south. Referencing the following report: Occurred : 9/20/2009 22:45 (Entered as : 09/20/2009 22:45) Reported: 9/26/2009 4:42:31 PM 16:42 Posted: 12/12/2009 Location: Lexington, NC Shape: Circle Duration:2 hours + [Narrative excluded] As a resident of Lexington, NC I have often seen similar objects that appear quite stationary in the sky, and then move . in a specific direction .

Northeast to Southwest or reverse. Depending upon atmospheric conditions the light may appear bright white or blue . again also depending upon the aircraft.

There is also a famous Vineyard in the area and the owner employs a Lear Jet in his travels - often flying low. No noise is heard until the aircraft is close or passes overhead. The local airport is nearby and low approach speed maintains an optical illusion of a non-moving object when approaching HEAD ON to the viewer.

Lexington also falls under a main sky route hub between Greensboro/Winston-Salem and Charlotte and it is not unusual for heavy air traffic . the planes often employ landing strobes . but the actual ONCOMING path makes it appear stationary until they get overhead and then one can see the FAA required aircraft lights (i.

e. green/red . varied blinking lights, wing lights, etc.

) . Many others have seen similar objects and mistook them for . Unidentified, until that typical jet noise "catches up".

I am not sure if this applies to the above situation, but may be a possible explanation. This evening I have seen many . heavy air traffic .

some small aircraft . strobes are flashed when they are approximate to each other. TWO in particular were unusual and did NOT follow the normal flight route; however I had assumed that they were the result of heavy inbound/outbound air traffic (Holiday) and may have been put on a "holding" pattern.

The night was very clear, the aircraft did NOT make noise, but assumed (again) the sound would follow. It didn't; however the movement was consistent with usual flight speed with no deviations from a straight course, nor any change in speed. Both objects moved from NORTH to SOUTH, EACH about ten minutes apart - EACH taking about ten minutes to cross.

The ONLY thing unusual were that there were NO FAA lights . just a solid white light. Note: Many dogs in the area were howling during this .

particular sighting. Nothing follows, nor is follow-up necessary. Reported FYI only.

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Fast, silent, low flying cylinder in Blue Ridge Mtns of North Carolina Date, time and place of sighting: On Friday evening, December 11th, 6:00pm, while driving northeast on US Highway 19E from Burnsville to Spruce Pine, NC. Near Spruce Pine, an object flew over my vehicle traveling in almost the same direction as I was driving, so I noticed it when it was almost directly overhead. It was traveling in a little more easterly direction than I was.

Appearance: It had the appearance of a “stick” shape, without wings. It had a single small, white light in the front and a bigger white light in the rear. It was flying very low and extremely fast.

I did not hear any noise associated with it at all. I was traveling with other traffic and with my windows closed and heater on., but I still would have expected to hear a roar from something traveling so close overhead.

I assume the occupants of the other vehicles near me also sighted it, but the only other witness I know was my 9-year-old son who was traveling with me. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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white light hovering, glowing, and disappearing. I was standing on my front porch facing south when I saw a white light ( no flashing air craft lights, only a solid white light brighter than any star) float slowly in the sky over the tree line in front of me, moving west to east. When the light got into about the center of my vision it stopped moving entirely for approximately 1 minute and appeared to hover.

The light started to grow brighter after this time and almost became yellow in color. The object then slowly started to climb in the air vertically about the length that it had moved from west to east upon seeing it initially. The object then went out extremely fast and was gone.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date is approximate. PD)).

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2 bights lights traveling together faster than an airplane then suddenly fading and disappearing 2 Bright lights traveling N or NE. It was too dark to see anything other than the lights but they were moving simultaneously as if attached to some large object (like a blimp). The lights were moving faster then a plane across the sky.

As I watched, the lights seemed to grow dim and suddenly disappeared. There was a moment before they disappeared that one of the lights seemed to flash blue. I have seen plenty of planes at nigh and this was not an airplane.

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

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v-shaped object with white and red flashing lights moving slowly over falls lake Going over the bridge at falls lake when we saw an object in the sky that was moving very slow - thought it might be a hellicopter. There were about 6 white lights and 1 or 2 red lights all flashing at different times. It started to bank over the lake - we pulled over a little further down the bridge and lost sight of it because of the trees.

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

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Silent white lights slowly move low in the sky then vanish. Me my daughter and another friend witnessed 2 UFO's in Asheville, NC, on Nov. 23 2009 at 6:25pm.

Two bright white lights traveling very slowly in an easterly direction at the exact same pace as if they were connected. each one was about the size of a quarter at arms length. no more than a 1/2 mile away.

As thay went behind the neighbors house i went to see them on the other side and they were gone. No noise no flashing red or green lights. Never have i witnessed this before.

Lasted about 30 seconds. When i returned about 10 min later I saw helocopters with search lights in the area where the lights vanished.

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Watching movie, cousin got my attention, pointed at craft outside literally floating in the air as if it was on ice. Never changing altitude at about 200 ft. A light hum .

I swear there is a helicopter so low right now it's caught my attention amidst this crazy morning. I hope we don't sound crazy right now, my hands are still shakin. The craft had3 intense lights shining white, and at the back between the two large lights were three colored lights( blue green and red or red green red) I hope others seen it.

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11/17/09 a disc w/ flashing lights hovered off coast of NC for 1hr+ moving horizontally then climbing off at a steep angle. While observing the meteor shower on November 17, 2009, we noticed an object North-northeast from Wrightsville Beach, N.C.

, hovering over the Atlantic Ocean. Multi-colored flashing lights, including orange, yellow, red, blue, and purple changed around perimeter causing what appeared to be a spinning effect. It occasionally moved horizontally but primarily maintained a fixed position approximately 20 degrees above the horizon.

As the meteor shower dissipated, a civilian or military aircraft flew past the object which then slowly moved away at a steep angle allowing the disc shape to be seen more clearly. It could be seen with the naked eye and, in more detail, through Tasco Offshore 21 7x50mm binoculars. This was witnessed by a 50 year old professional person and spouse along with a high school sophmore and two college students.

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red object with white lights around it, moving up & down.

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Triangle Craft 3 White Lights- non-flashing At around 19:00, an unidenfied low flying craft with 3 solid white non-flashing lights forming a triangle traveled from latitude 34°57'56.12"N, longitude 79°44'19.06"W to latitude 34°57'57.

21"N, longitude 79°44'24.33"W. There was no sound and the movement was smooth.

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

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2 group of lights in Eastern Sky about 11:00 PM. Lights turned colors, white, red, and blue. Sorry I couldn't see their shape.

On November 7,2009 I was out on my patio having a smoke and I looked up at the sky and noticed a group of lights that were turning different colors. As I watched these lights they started moving, they would move side to side and up and down. They appeared in the eastern sky about 135 degrees off the ground.

They looked like they were about 50 miles from my house, and about 35 miles apart. I couldn't make out the shape of them, but the lights I saw looked like they took up the whole front on the object. This wasn't the first time I saw them, but when I did see them before I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me, but after seeing two of them together tonight I knew they were real I'm a 70 year old male who is retired and living here in North Carolina.

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amber in color single fireball with no tail effect traveling west, seemed to travel faster than all known aircraft. One amber/orange colored, almost oblong fireball with no distortion or tail effects,viewed facing south and heading left to right at a very high rate of speed just above ground height. I would estimate a viewing angle of 50 degrees and a heading of west north west.

Two adult wittnesses, one a seasoned hunter, the other a trained military observer(american,nato,soviet military and commercial aircraft id experience). This was in the Grove Hill area of Wilton NC. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

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5 bright lights that were slanted appeared next to each other in the night sky over Fuquay Varina, NC. We were driving home when I saw (the driver) saw some strange bright lights in the sky opposite of the moon. There was a tree line, so it was hard to keep a constant eye on them.

They appears like 5 lights that were slanted like hash marks right next to each other. They moved very grauatedly and looked like they were blending together into one light and then separated some but only into 3 lights when it did. The light was a white color.

There were no stars out, just the moon. It was hard to tell for sure it the lights were blending together as we were driving and I wasn’t sure if it was just because our vantage point was changing or the lights were changing. I asked my passenger if she saw the lights when I first did and she did and we both watched them as they eventually disappeared altogether.

We spoke about it and both thought it wasn't falling stars as they were there for a longer than a flash and they moved really slow like they were in water or s! omething. They didn’t fall any and they stayed just as bright as when we first saw them until they were gone in a blink. ((NUFORC Note: Source of report corrected date to November 03, 2009.

PD)).

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Craft appeared to bounce close to ground before shooting straight up into the sky and has been stationary for an hour+. I got a call at approximately 23:56. My friends were surf fishing on the beach.

They told me to look out over the water and I would see what looked like a star with a flashing light circling it and I did. My friend then told me that he saw the craft “bounce” around the local fishing pier and then shoot up into the sky where it has been stationary for over an hour now. None of us have a telescope but with my binoculars it looks like a “star” with a blinking white light and blue light circling it.

Also, for the first 20 minutes the main light seemed to pulse becoming intensely brighter and then dimmer. Now it seems to stay more consistently at the dimmer light. I will post another report in the morning if it is still in the same spot as it does not seem to be moving with the rest of the stars.

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3 bright lights over Durham I had just stepped out of my car in the parking lot of a restaurant. I glanced up into a very clear sky and was immediately stopped in my tracks by the sight of 2 "stars" approx. 3 finger widths apart, just below Cassiopiea.

Being an avid sky watcher, I KNEW that those 2 stars did not belong there. I turned and walked about 5 steps back to my car, so as to brace myself against a stationary object to try and see if they moved. In the 2-3 seconds it took to walk that far, when I turned back to look at them, they had dimmed considerably, and were slowly moving, this time the 2 had become 3 points of light and were slowly moving together.

They appeared to be extremely high up. No sound. I am positive they were not balloons, chinese lanterns, airplanes, satellites.

No idea what they were. It was just amazing, seeing this show in the sky and knowing it was something unusual and out of the ordinary. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

PD)).

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20 flickering red lights in imperfect succession, floating up and vanishing into the clouds. There were about 20 flickering red lights in the sky, following one another fairly quickly but not in perfect succession. They came from 440 area heading toward 540, moving up and vanishing into the clouds.

The movement reminded one of candles or glow sticks attached to balloons, though the size seemed larger. A friend of mine and I were outside talking, and we saw them. Another person came into the condo complex who also saw the lights when we pointed them out.

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Five lighted craft dance about Orion during a meteor shower, spotted from the Appalachian Mountains. My friends and I were out for the meteor shower, we waited till midnight, then looked up toward Orion as we were told to. We saw a few nice meteors, then my friend points out a satellite.

As soon as I see it drifting across Orion, it stops at the feet of the constellation. I immediately tell my friend, this is no satellite. We discuss what it could be for about three minutes, till it began to move again.

It drifted, dropped, darted to the lift and the right, came back to stationary, and generally danced around like a bumble bee. Once I was sure of what we were seeing, we grabbed a few more witnesses. At one point, the craft moved up to Orion's right shoulder and sat there.

My friend and I were afraid we had lost it, until it started to move up and down, over and over again: waving Orion's arm at us. It had to be within 15,000 feet, because I could make out a shape, and distinguish colors of light that it flashed: red, blue, green, yellow, and white. They wer! e brighter than Orion's belt, twinkled, and were distinguishable by a haze or glow it emitted.

Several planes entered the area but stayed far away from the lights. The night was super clear, just a sliver of a crescent moon, and not a cloud in the sky. By the end of the night, I had spotted three more disk shaped objects, two were moving in unison.

Then there was one large rectangular thing with a round front end with a strange pattern of lights on it, it was much larger than the saucers as well. I went to bed at 3:30, and they were still there, the one I saw originally at the feet of Orion was no longer distinguishable, but was a tiny bright white dot in the atmosphere. I will never forget that night, and will never deny what it was that I saw.

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Star-like, color changing triangle shape object My outside dog began barking around 0130 am as he has done the last couple nights, which is unusual for him. Determined to find out what was causing this commotion I began looking out my windows. I saw what appeared to be a blinking "star" at first.

Then it began to change shape like a white inner ball with intermittent red and blue lights forming a triangle around it. I woke up my son to see this object. It moved gracefully up and down and from side to side.

I put new batteries in my digital camera and went out on the porch to try and photograph it. Snapped one shot not catching the object and the camera flashed the battery symbol and went off.Then is when I noticed what appeared o be two lights on the bottom of the object.

My cell phone camera would not pick up the object. My inside cat and dog were going crazy! We watched this for over 25 minutes and then I went to get my husbands binoculars and when I found them and came back to the window it was gone. T! here was no noise at all; the whole time.

Then my pets went back to normal and I watched the rest of the night but seen nothing else.

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Bright light/hovering craft seen in raleigh near state fair around midnight. Driving saw an incredibly bright light in the distance - pretty low in the sky. Originally thought it might be a helicopter or plane.

As I got closer I noticed it wasn't moving, but simply hovering. It was too big to be a helicopter. It had red lights on the tips of its wings and one big, very bright white light in the middle.

FREAKY!!!! ((NUFORC Note: Possibly a celestial body, or an approaching airliner?? PD)).