North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2016

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Bright lights moving around my property, shadows moving, orbs, glowing eyes. Every night for two weeks I've had orbs, glowing eyes, moving shadows, large light moving in a pattern on my property with no beam or origin, bright flashes of light. I don't know what is going on.

I have video with humanlike figures.

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Big slow creepy aircraft We were in our house then we herd a noise of a low flying aircraft so all 4 of us went outside and saw a big almost Star Wars looking ship moving very slowly across the sky and it had really bright flashing lights. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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Large green comet-like streak in the sky, lasted 5 or 6 seconds. I was driving last night on a dark portion of the the highway, some trees on either side of the highway but the sky above me was uncovered. The sky was mostly clear, you could see the stars clearly.

In front of me I thought I saw a shooting star, so I looked up, but it was closer and larger than any comet or shooting star I’ve seen and lasted for a while. There was a bright green round core, and a silver/green trail of light behind it, like a comet would have, but much larger and closer. It lasted for about 4-6 seconds, was traveling very fast, and then disappeared quickly before it reached the horizon.

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Caught a glimpse of what seemed to be a glare, but then slowly faded into what looked like a cone shaped craft that gradually increased its altitude. Shortly you could see a pair of jets flying in its general direction.

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Unique Craft Spotted above trees, still motion, strange shape, just observing. I was driving home and noticed some sort of craft way down the road. As I got closer I noticed that it wasn't moving.

Still I got closer until I was right under it. It was positioned just off the side of the road about 20-30 feet above the tree line (but not behind the trees, closer to the road). It had to be as big as my car since it appeared the same size that far up.

I paused under it briefly in wonder. The clouds behind it were lit by the moon perfect, so I could make out the shape. It was like nothing I've seen or heard described.

It had very short, stout wings, the front end (i guess the cockpit) was bulbous shaped and the back end was shaped like that of a jet (like where the air would come out). I guess it was shaped like a jet but severely squished. It had two white lights (like car headlights, but the y didn't shine outward, they just lit up) on each side of the cockpit.

It had a band of read light that went across the middle with a small! red light on each side and the light appeared to move back and forth across that area. The craft was dark in color. You could have drawn a parallelogram around the outside of it, if you had to place it in a tangible shape category.

It just stayed in the air, no sound, above me. I really thought somebody has got to be playing a joke, perhaps so. There was a car coming and it was late so I started to drive.

I watched in my rear view until I couldn't see it anymore. Just before it went out of view it began to move to my left back towards the wooded area. I called my husband and he told me to go get a picture (a decision I regret not making immediately now).

So I turned down the back roads. I believe I saw it again, moving really slow, staying at the same altitude, across a horse pasture (it was too far to get a picture with my phone). It looked like it was just exploring or observing.

I don't know. Then it was gone. I got home immediately and tried to find a drawing or image of the shape I saw.

I couldn't find any drones or plane s that resembled it. I drew a sketch, but now I just feel crazy and really stupid for not immediately taking a picture while it was perfectly outlined above me.

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Last night around 8:00pm I was outside with me dad and I looked straight up and a very bright flash hit my eyes. I asked my dad did you see that? Next thing you know we see the light kind of looked like the size and distance of the International space station. We watch it surge in speed and sometimes slow to a stall.

It would blink on at very random times. From 2 seconds to 10 seconds before another flash. It was north towards lake reidsville in NC.

To me it looked like a UFO losing power and getting surges of power to light up and move faster. Then when my wife came out after 5 minutes it started to slow and fade with every flash. Then it disappeared.

It did not travel far across the sky in a north east direction. 3 of us saw it and know it was not a plane due to the distance and varying speed, light brightness and timing of the flash. Something was losing power or down.

Pretty amazing sight.

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2 really bright lights separately lit up my room, each lasting about 2.5 seconds. The light was really bright, and really white as well.

It appeared as though the object(s) moved from the left of my window to the right. I was just trying to get some sleep because I have school the next day, and then all of a sudden I see two really bright lights flash and light my room up for roughly 5 seconds. Each flash lasted about 2.

5 seconds. From the way the light looked the objects might have been orbs of some sort, maybe even a saucer.

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White very bright burst of light Very bright white burst of light appeared out of nowhere that was extremely high in the sky. Then it dimmed to a medium intensity and streaked straight down at incredible speed leaving a trail from its starting point and then it and its trail disappeared half way down to the ground. I was approximately half mile from light burst driving straight towards it and it was almost in the very top center of my windshield.

The sky was dark. I could not see any object associated with this light burst. Just the light itself.

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Red and green dropping lights. A red and green set of lights was moving in straight lines,,then just quickly went straight down.

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The object was blinking different colors. It was blinking red, green, blue. It was blinking very fast.

It kept disappearing.

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Mid-sized disk shaped object, rotating violently, flying back and forth, landed several times, collision with dog & 2 people. I was visiting girlfriend’s home for Thanksgiving Holiday to meet parents, went outside with her father, brother, and girlfriend when we saw the saucer. The neighbor’s dog was ballistic.

The UFO hurtled back and forth between the two yards, about the size of a trash can lid, and struck the dog on the side. Saucer also grazed my girlfriend and her brother. We had all had a drink, but we were all sober enough to know what we saw.

The craft had an undistinguishable colour and the lighting was poor, however, we were able to see strange black characters inscribed on the (presumed) hull of the UFO. The craft landed and took off several times throughout our observation of the events. Later, some scorch marks were found in the lawn.

The object did not have lights of its own; however, it did emit an aquamarine glow, making it more difficult to see the colour of the UFO’s body. No life forms were seen. Possibly an alien drone? A government drone? As for observer backgrounds, my girlfriend is studying finance and accounting at a university near our apartment, but we observed the object at her parents’ house in Zebulon.

Her father is an employee at the pharmaceutical company in the town, and her brother was also visiting from college. I, myself, am a sales rep for a large company located in Washington state. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a hoax.

Telephone number provided by witness is non-functional. Source of report has not responded to an e-mail. PD)).

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Triangular silent hovering object over Hwy 26, near Fletcher Hovering triangular, silent craft, with big 'search light' upfront, many white lights along triangular sides, with one red light, over Hwy 26 between Fletcher and Asheville, NC.

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White balls of light in backyard Mother and I were in backyard, bagging up raked leaves, when we both noticed 3 spherical white lights (about the size of a fifty cent piece each) floating slowly around and above our heads.

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Loud rumbling in a clear sky. Many people in area heard it. Me an my grandson (he's 18yrs old) were working outside our house on this day and time when, from a sunny and clear sky, came a sudden rumbling or "quaking" that seemed to come from directly overhead and was very loud (like thunder) and could be heard echoing off the nearby mountains.

It lasted between 5-10 seconds. I am ((deleted--sixties)) yrs old, retired from the military with ((deleted--20+) yrs service, and I have never heard anything like this from any kind of aircraft. The closest thing i could compare it to from my military experience would be the sound of a Vulcan Helicopter machine gun.

It came of in an instant like the flip of a switch and ended just as abruptly. Several people we have talked to in this area heard this and so far no one has said they saw anything in the sky when it occurred.

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As me and my wife were standing outside of a restaurant we saw 5 light orange disc like objects that appeared to be spinning flying in a westward direction in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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4 greenish-blue lights rotating around a red light, brief "meteor-like" sighting Driving along 64 Westbound, about 1 mile east of Raleigh East Airport (W17). Saw a bright greenish-blue light (with a slight trail) appear about 10 degrees over the horizon (nearly directly west), RAPIDLY moving downward to the ground and disappearing. I assumed this was a meteor and made a joke about it being either a meteor, a missile or an UFO.

Within 10-20 seconds of this, the light reappeared at an elevation of about 40 degrees, still west of us. It appeared to be a series of 4 extremely bright greenish-blue lights forming a circle around a dim red light. The 4 lights were rapidly rotating around the red light (at ~15 RPM).

This object rose rapidly, made a turn to the right (north) and suddenly shot back down to the earth (nearly identical to the original sighting but at MUCH closer range). Distance, size and speed is hard to calculate at night (and with an object of unknown size). That said, the speed at which the object moved was roughly that of a fast moving meteor burning up in the atmosphere.

The object was also much larger on the second sighting, so I'd assume that we were much closer.

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Seen strange light bounce in sky with different colored lights moving side to side in one spot. ((NUFORC Note: Star?? PD)).

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Objects that looked like fireballs in the sky. COMPLETELY SILENT!!!!!!! My boyfriend and I were sitting on our back porch smoking a cigarette. We live fairly close to the airport in our town and as we were talking we looked and saw what looked to be like two fireballs going through the sky.

After they got over and us the “flame” flickered out on one of the fireballs. Then the second one dimmed and went out as well. We caught all this on recording.

The weirdest thing was about ten minutes later we saw one in the sky again. It came from the direction of the airport and did the same thing as the last two. It came over us and then the light went out again.

It continued to happen one more time before finally stopping. The craziest part about all of it is these “crafts” never made a sound. In one of the videos we were able to actually see a plane landing in the back ground and you can hear the plane but after it disappeared there was once again no sound.

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Oddly shaped illuminated object in sky that drew attention of 6 helicopters two days before Election. On Sunday, for close to 45 minutes, an object was observed in the distance. The top had a green light, and the bottom two sides had a white light.

It moved back and forth and bobbed up and down in a stationary position. Within 30 minutes, 6 helicopters arrived high in the air, which caused it to move more rapidly up and down before moving away. Eventually the helicopters disappeared, following it.

Afterwards, saw to streams of light fly in the direction after it and the helicopters, like it was 'shooting stars'. I watched this for the whole week of 11/6/16. Saw the same on 11/7/16.

On 11/8 and 11/9, there was a lot of Light Pollution in that general direction. On 11/10, saw the same light in the sky when driving from work and watched it disappear in the sky within seconds. On 11/11, while I was not home, younger sibling, called, who had witnessed event on 11/6 and 11/7, reported to me he saw the same thing.

While driving on Highway 87, I could see the light from a distance and could watch it move in the sky until it disappeared. On 11/12, I watched it for a full hour, until it disappeared completely in the sky. All sightings happened at the same time, after sunset, roughly around 16:30 (sic.

18:30 hrs.) (6:30pm), and ended around 17:10 (7:10pm) daily; give or take a few minutes. Ironically enough, this all happened this week, of the 2016 Presidential election.

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I had went to my back porch to make sure the door was locked when I saw a huge bright light in the sky. I thought at first it was a star, but I kept staring for some reason and I realized it was brighter than any star out there. I kept watching and I saw that it was moving in upward and downard motions but side to side.

Then little lights shot out from it going straight down at an angle. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).