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North Carolina UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 188 UFO sighting reports in North Carolina from 2015 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (40 reports, 21.28% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (31 reports, 16.49% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (30 reports, 15.96% of total).
- 07/04/15 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (9 reports, 4.79% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (111 reports, 59.04% of total).
North Carolina UFO Sighting Reports in 2015
This is a sampling of 20 North Carolina UFO reports from 2015, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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The red light stayed in the same spot then moved slightly and disapeared. The light was pulsating. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Driving north on future 26 towards Mars Hill between Flat Creek exit and Juliter Rd we saw 8 or 9 red orange lights hovering in an almost upside down Y pattern. At first we thought it was space debris as it was raining and overcast so the stars were completely blocked out. I know the car ahead of me saw it because they pulled over.
The objects just hovered despite heavy wind. Never saw anything like it before in my life. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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My husband and I were on our way top pick our daughter up from work at Wendy's. While driving under the bridge, I noticed a group of 4 red lights hovering over Bojangles. They weren't moving or blinking like those on the tower to the right.
I immediately told my husband to look and soon after the started to form a angle and go up. I instructed my husband to hurry and park the car so I could get a picture, all while watching them out the window. They started to go upward until they disappeared but a few seconds later I saw one single light go straight up into the air and dissappear.
My husband seemed to think they were airplanes but I quickly informed him that planes can't fly that close without crashing into each other. I do believe what I saw was not of this world.
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Strange silent color-shifting light seen 10:29pm December 20 towards Garner. Around 10:29pm Sunday night, I noticed a light off in the distance (couldn't tell how far away) Northwest towards Garner, NC. It hovered, no sound, changed between red & yellow.
After grabbing my cell phone & returning, the object had vanished & never reappeared again that evening. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Strange Light hovered near Garner, NC. Last night around 10:29 pm, I noticed a light hovering towards Garner, couldn't tell exact distance. It didn't move much, and changed between yellow and red colors, no sounds.
After I retrieved my cell phone to record video/photos and returned, it had vanished, never seen again that evening. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Multiple flying objects sighted on the horizon. Traveling from Elizabeth City to Hertford, NC, we saw 7 bright orange flying objects just above the horizon. Not sure what they were but were flying to low and to close together to be planes.
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Three objects with white and red collision lights following each other N Raleigh, no sound. Went outside and saw what looked like 3 aircraft following each other, with red and white collision lights. Came from West and headed S/SE.
Odd thing was they seemed to be flying low, but you couldn't hear any type of engines, propellers, etc. They seemed to loosely follow each other but were also in very close proximity to each other. I am guessing they were at approx 2500' msl.
very bizarre. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Moon in Western sky with light at bottom pictured with 12 white bright lights in shape of 1/2 Grey UFO. Driving on Snow Hill Rd., looking in the Western sky, saw almost dark moon light under the bottom of it.
Stop to picture moon it changed to lights around the top of one half grey space saucer or UFO zoomed in on the photo and there were white oblong lights on top and bottom close together total of 12. Duration 2 Minutes - The saucer or UFO went behind the moon. I have a photo evidence with this report.
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Meandering lights over Mooresville. I was driving west on highway 152 and noticed a bright light that looked like a jet but then another appeared close to that light and then another till there were 4 or 5 lights. They seemed the meander around each other.
I saw them from Deal Rd. till I lost visibility as I crossed in to Mooresville city limits.
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A light in the sky in the sky went up slowly over the trees then a beam of light came out. Then I ran into house to get phone and came back and it was gone. There was no sound.
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Diamond shaped UFO with red lights I was out with my friend in this neighborhood on the lake stargazing. There is a bridge (high up, stretches over the lake) that we were on where you can see almost everything. My friend points at the sky at these hovering bright red lights.
There was no flashing that we could see at this point. It moved one way, then it would stop, then slowly keep moving. It gets closer and we continue to watch it.
There ended up being 4 lights, in a diamond shape. One of these lights inconsistently blinked white. The object continued to move across the sky in across very odd way, speeding up and slowing down, moving around sporadically, and definitely not traveling in a direct flight path like an airplane would.
It was not a helicopter. It was not a drone. It was not at at very high altitude and there was absolutely NO sound.
We continued to watch it fly and then suddenly rapidly (EXTREMELY fast) fly down and our view was obstructed by a house. We got in the car and drove towards where we last saw it, but it was no where to be seen.
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strange light near rim road and cliffdale was at my friends house near rim rd and cliffdale when I saw a light slowly pulsating upwards, pause for a few seconds, and then at a constant rate downwards. I pointed it out to my friend and his wife and they saw it as well. The sky was cloudy and It seemed too high to be any sort of drone.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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We went out to look at the stars over the water on this crystal clear night, when we saw to the left of us 3 bright red strobing lights at each point of a very large slow moving triangular craft. It was totally silent moving in one direction coming in from over the ocean to land, then disappeared after 15 minutes. It was unreal! ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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While walking my dog, I noticed a propeller plane I thought was coming in for a landing. It had white lights and a red flashing on the bottom. I did not think much of it until it stopped moving.
I assumed at that point it was a helicopter. I finished my walk, still watching the light. 45 Minutes later I had to leave for work.
I got it on film. Unfortunately, all you can see is a light.
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Bright light with irregular flight pattern and speed. Light, comparable to a commercial jets headlights when they are flying towards you to the northwest of my location, 10-15 degrees above the horizon. Stood still for about 1 minute, then began heading right, stopped, went up and did a circle vertical to the ground.
Went right about 15 degrees, instantly went back to the left and disappeared, speed was about twice as fast as you would see a jet flying over at high altitude, kept same light brightness, looked at it through a rifle scope and could only see a light, not sure about distance but I was in an 80 acre field in the rural country and seemed to be very far off.
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Strange star-like light with geometric shape. Observed a strange very small cloud like shape in the usual night sky. I used high powered binoculars to observe and saw a cluster of bright lights.
Further examination showed another smaller cluster of lights with a distinct geometric shape in close proximity (as viewed from earth). Neither of these shapes appeared naturally occurring but tracked across the sky with the stars. The lights in both of the shapes appeared unnatural - bright white unlike typical star light.
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Bright light close to earth fades red and disappears to right side of sky, as helicopter spotlight searches in sky overhead. Bright light in sky (glowing bright white) moving very quickly to the right side of the sky, there was also a helicopter searching for something near me and the light, the light then faded red and disappeared. ((NUFORC Note: The source of the report does not indicate the location of the alleged sighting occurred.
Also, the witness remains totally anonymous and provides no contact information. PD)).
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Light over Angier, NC After waking up we saw a bright light in yhe sky thru our window. It hovered in place for a few minutes and them it rapitly got smaller as it moved not across, but out and up towards space. It did not fly like a plane or helicopter.
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Just saw something really weird. 6 to 8 orange light traveling east to west. They seemed to be less than 1000 ft in altitude.
Traveled in pairs. They made no noise and traveled in a constant speed. Thinking maybe they were Chinese lanterns, but there was no wind.
They flickered as on fire. Kind of cool.
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I was driving down Peters Creek Parkway and noticed an oval shaped object with lights all around it.most white.and maybe one or two red lights.
flying rather low heading over Peters Creek going toward downtown.definitely was not a plane.was flying way to low.
maybe the height of a 20 story building.made no noise. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information.
PD)).
North Carolina UFO Sightings From 2015 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 40 reported sightings | 21.28% of all reports |
Circle | 25 reported sightings | 13.30% of all reports |
Triangle | 20 reported sightings | 10.64% of all reports |
Unknown | 16 reported sightings | 8.51% of all reports |
Fireball | 15 reported sightings | 7.98% of all reports |
Other | 12 reported sightings | 6.38% of all reports |
Sphere | 12 reported sightings | 6.38% of all reports |
Formation | 6 reported sightings | 3.19% of all reports |
Changing | 6 reported sightings | 3.19% of all reports |
Cylinder | 5 reported sightings | 2.66% of all reports |
Disk | 5 reported sightings | 2.66% of all reports |
Rectangle | 5 reported sightings | 2.66% of all reports |
Oval | 5 reported sightings | 2.66% of all reports |
Cigar | 4 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
Chevron | 3 reported sightings | 1.60% of all reports |
Diamond | 3 reported sightings | 1.60% of all reports |
Cross | 2 reported sightings | 1.06% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 1.06% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 0.53% of all reports |
North Carolina UFO Sightings From 2015 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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July | 31 reported sightings | 16.49% of all reports |
November | 22 reported sightings | 11.70% of all reports |
December | 18 reported sightings | 9.57% of all reports |
May | 17 reported sightings | 9.04% of all reports |
June | 16 reported sightings | 8.51% of all reports |
March | 16 reported sightings | 8.51% of all reports |
October | 15 reported sightings | 7.98% of all reports |
August | 14 reported sightings | 7.45% of all reports |
September | 12 reported sightings | 6.38% of all reports |
January | 11 reported sightings | 5.85% of all reports |
February | 8 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
April | 8 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
North Carolina UFO Sightings From 2015 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 30 reported sightings | 15.96% of all reports |
Friday | 28 reported sightings | 14.89% of all reports |
Thursday | 27 reported sightings | 14.36% of all reports |
Tuesday | 27 reported sightings | 14.36% of all reports |
Sunday | 26 reported sightings | 13.83% of all reports |
Monday | 26 reported sightings | 13.83% of all reports |
Wednesday | 24 reported sightings | 12.77% of all reports |
North Carolina UFO Sightings From 2015 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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07/04/15 | 9 reported sightings | 4.79% of all reports |
11/19/15 | 4 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
07/20/15 | 4 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
10/20/15 | 4 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
05/24/15 | 3 reported sightings | 1.60% of all reports |
North Carolina UFO Sightings From 2015 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 111 reported sightings | 59.04% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 24 reported sightings | 12.77% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 24 reported sightings | 12.77% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 14 reported sightings | 7.45% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 10 reported sightings | 5.32% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 5 reported sightings | 2.66% of all reports |
All North Carolina Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2015
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in North Carolina, in 2015
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in North Carolina
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in North Carolina.