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North Carolina UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 165 UFO sighting reports in North Carolina from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (30 reports, 18.18% of total).
- November is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (24 reports, 14.55% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (31 reports, 18.79% of total).
- 07/25/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 3.03% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (63 reports, 38.18% of total).
North Carolina UFO Sighting Reports in 2019
This is a sampling of 20 North Carolina UFO reports from 2019, 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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I was testing out the new telescope we got for Christmas, using the attach your phone feature. Upon review of the video we saw a ufo My family was testing out our new telescope and had attached my iPhone to the lens to see how videos through this relatively inexpensive telescope would turn out. As I was recording one part of the video, I would tap the screen to focus on the moon.
As it was focusing on the moon, which we only noticed upon review of the video, an object appears to materialize out of thin air and travel quickly across the screen. Since my focal point was the moon, the object had to be near the moon and moving very fast and likely very large, for me to be able to pick it up. Upon zooming in, it almost looks like a bullet hole when you see those slow motion videos shooting through something.
I checked the box below to be contacted, but just wanted to say if you have questions or if you can explain what it is, I’d love to hear it, but you don’t have to contact me if you don’t need to. Just wouldn’t want to waste anyone’s time as it’s not a lot of evidence but we have always thought it was compelling… thanks!.
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Saw several glowing red objects hovering almost the shape of the big Dipper. They were traveling south East until they disappeared in the tree line. The objects made no sound.
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Saw a Fireball UFO glowing Red/Orange. It moved around in all directions. Very cool! The last time I saw a Fireball UFO was in Great Falls, Montana, on the 4th of July 2012.
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Oval shaped glowing white object leaves a trail of 'smoke' in the sky then vanishes . I observed one oval shaped craft heading easterly in the sky. At first it appeared to be a jet of some sort but it was moving sporadically in the sky in a continued forward motion (up and down).
It let behind a trail of ‘smoke’. At this point I was thinking it was some sort of meteorite or maybe a fireball. The color was white.
As soon as I came to this conclusion is when the object stopped in the sky and it appeared to have some sort of white haze, almost like a fog develop around it. As soon as this happened the trail of ‘smoke’ ceased to be produced. The object grew brighter and moved ahead then absolutely just vanished.
I was able to record about 2 ½ minutes from my cell phone. The initial event that caught my attention was not recorded because I was really dumbfounded by what I was looking at in the sky. As soon as the object started to disappear is when I started recording so the video only shows the faint object and the trail of ‘smoke’ which shows the trajectory of the objects movement.
I took one still shot when I arrived to work that only showed what was left over from the ‘smoke’ the object produced. It was oval in shape and had a bright white glow. I could see no details other than the shape and the glow.
Its shape was very distinct and it did not have wings from what I could tell. No blinking lights or anything of the sort that would make it identifiable as a jet or a helicopter. The sky was clear and it was in fact dark just before sunrise.
I will email the photo and video evidence.
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Every Night, Multiple Sightings. Peacekeepers! Multiple peaceful flying craft witnessed that were not traceable on any of the flight reporting networks. These appear in many areas of the Sky, in various altitudes, and speeds.
The physics and direction they fly in do not comply with standard aircraft. I have seen them as single craft at-a-time but many in the sky at once (up to 15 one night) on different flight paths. this morning there were 8-12 within a manner of minutes, one after another until one last one flew by and crossed paths with the last 2.
Shortly after the sunlight broke, I witnessed 3 (three) man made airplanes all in “pursuit” but headed in the opposite direction from which the other craft were headed. I have honestly seen hovering or what looks like a star” nearly every single night since December 5, 2019. December 18, 2019 One flew low enough across Silas Creek Pkwy at Country Club Rd.
Bridge that I saw the BEAUTIFUL multiple colored lights on it as he flew over with such clarity and wit! hin 50-75 feet above me. I have seen and recorded footage of all aside from the driving eyewitness near country club road.including two daytime “silver pill” shaped craft gliding across the skies at a high altitude.
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14-16 lights moving in different directions but made 90 degree turns. Witnessed 10-16 lights when while on the bridge at 17:04 only caught 2 with my camera while driving. The lights came down like something burning up in the atmosphere but then they made 90 degree turns.
The lights made different movements. No sound from air craft, weather was clear and this occurred at dusk. The lights disappeared at different times.
Whole event a few minutes I pulled after the bridge I pulled off the road and captured the remaining two lights. The light was consistent throughout could not make out any objects.
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100's of round blobs or circles, clear or silver, shiny, color change to red or blue and back hovering over & around tower. Well, here we go again. This is my second sighting this year.
My granddaughter and I stopped at Wendy’s on Reynolda Rd. in Winston-Salem, NC. While I was accessing my Wendy’s app for coupons, she said, “Grandma what are those things up there?” I looked out my right passenger window and looked up.
Above and around the very tall cell tower behind Wendy’s were what seemed like hundreds of round blobs moving all around but they stayed in the same area. We got out the car for a better look. They seemed clear or silver colored, but shiny.
Some turned red and some turned blue. A few even changed shape to have a tail or something pointing behind, or in front. of them.
They were not up very high in the sky, at least no further than the cell tower. They were definitely round before shifting shape. We tried to capture videos from my cell phone, but when we looked through the camera you could not see them.
(After we got home I checked the videos on my phone and you coul! d make out a few of the objects.) After about 20 minutes, the group of objects moved to the right of the sky but at the same height level. They seemed to just disappear after that.
I do not know how huge the objects would be on ground level. But clearly they were large. Some would move towards each other and then pull back.
This time my granddaughter saw them first and brought them to my attention. The last time I brought the UFSs we saw to her attention (reported on this site). It was almost like when you blow out a bunch of bubbles at one time (but many more) except bubbles do not stay at one level, they either float up and then burst or fall down and burst or touch each other and burst or cling to each other and then burst.
I reviewed this writing with my granddaughter, and she confirms it is an accurate depiction of what we both saw. She said, Grandma we have got to get a real camera if we keep seeing these things.” I agree.
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Large white circular object flying across sky My sister and I were out tonight going on a walk together. The sky was clear and we could see all the stars, and there was a full moon. It was around 10:10 p.
m. on December 14th 2019. We saw, at the same time, a large circular bright white light.
It looked like a star, but a lot larger and closer by. We saw it moving diagonally very fast, for about 3 seconds, and then it vanished completely. It left no trail behind.
It made no noise.
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On that Saturday afternoon, at approximately 13:30 hours, December 14, while walking in my neighborhood, I looked up as I usually do to watch for birds in tops of trees. In the clear sky ahead at about a 30 degree angle I saw 7-8 small perfect circles that were brilliant white. First several – 4 or 5 of them on the left side of the asymmetrical group appeared to bounce.
Then one perfect circle became elliptical and gray and appeared to join the right hand grouping of 3-4. For a second or two, they appeared to be in formation with four circles forming a rectangle and three circles following as they moved slowly to the left and then suddenly disappeared. Sorry to have submitted twice but I think I inadvertently reported two different dates on the first submission.
It was Saturday afternoon, December 14, 2019 at 3:30 in the afternoon.
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Huge craft over Polar Express. While at the pit stop of the Polar Express, 3 flashing red lights on a huge craft floated slowly by. It was obscured by clouds/fog.
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Morphing inter dimensional white or silver craft While driving down interstate 40 near morganton, I witnessed an explosion in the sky. The light was silver grey and the sky was starting to get dark, but still had blue. It was the explosion that caught my attention.
I immediately looked and it was almost as if “something” had burst through a portal and as soon ans I could look at the object, it was as if it began to sort of morph and compact or change shape in some way. Instantly it zipped to the west heading toward rutherfordton. Once again there was a white or silver light as the object flew away.
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3 Hovering objects in the sky This is the fourth time I’ve seen this bright light (white in color) in the sky in the past couple of years. It is always in the same place every time I see it. Out of the front of my house, 143 degrees south east.
It hovers in the air with very bright lights and it does not move. There are no noises or indicators that it is a helicopter or plane. It is extremely still until all of the sudden the lights are gone, disappears in the dark without moving across the sky.
Last time I saw it, it was about 2AM and there was a hum throughout our house and outside. I had never heard that noise before but it stayed for hours. This time, the hover craft was gone within 5 minutes of me seeing it.
2 crafts further away accompanied it. They were different though as they were not just white lights but also flashed hints of red and blue. However, like the large and closer craft, they did not move in the sky.
From my viewpoint the 3 crafts formed a triangle. The large close c! raft disappeared after five minutes while the 2 further crafts stayed in the sky.
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Very bright star like figure, near an airplane that was possibly Abducted but this star like fugure So, I am younger than you can say an adult, but I was in my moms car, and I was staring at the sky, then I glance to the left, and a light appears, it was very faint at first, then after a period of around 10 seconds it got brighter and brighter, Then I screamed to my brother, and said, "Do you see that light?!" and I pointed to it, and he saw it. After a period of around 8 seconds, it just sat there, then all of the sudden a second object appears, But I don't think it was a UFO, it looked somewhat like a plane. It had wings like an airplane, But there was something strange, they weren't moving.
and they were in the sky at around 135 degrees South West, and all of the sudden, the second object, which was the one that looked like an airplane, faded away to the direction of the first object and this took around 5 seconds, but which felt very slow, and after these seconds, the 2nd object disappeared and after around 10 seconds, the first object, faded away at the same speed as it got bright. I would describe the first object as being like a star, like the north star, circular, but I couldn't see the object clearly because of how bright it was, the light was the same as a star, but it couldn't be a star because how early it was and my street is kind of light polluted, so you can't see stars until relatively late at night. I had Always been fascinated by strange things, such as the paranormal.
But I always had this fear of when you read or watch something, or imagine it, it would become real. This terrifies me, because i've never thought they'd be real but they are. And I know I am not lying, and i'm still terrified from this event.
I don't care if you don't believe it's real, but I know it in my heart an mind that I saw this, and something I will never forget. Now I know that we are not alone, and no one can take this knowledge away from my heart, such a terrifying sight it was. At second thought, I think That airplane may have been abducted, but I am not sure.
I think this may have been a reason for the flights that have disappeared over years. Well that will put an end to description and explanation. If you read this, please note that I am not trying to waste your time, and I seriously believe in what I saw.
Thank you for your time.
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Circular silver aircraft without smoke trail dissapeared after 10-15 seconds As I was waiting to leave a retail chain parking lot, I was sitting at a stop sign when I looked up to see something catch my eye. I t was almost as if someone had a mirror, reflecting it towards me from the sky, but when I focused on it I seen it was a circular looking, silver aircraft without a smoke trail. It reflected twice at me and when I hung the phone up to take a picture, it was gone.
The weird part was after it reflected a second time, I felt the urge to turn my head and not look, but not because it was too bright, more like I felt I wasn't supposed to be looking at what I was seeing.
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I was walking with my son to check my mail witch is down a long driveway and i happen to look up at a exstreamy bright light CLEARLY shaped like a round saucer shining bright and coasting slowly across the skyfor about 3 minutes before it disappeard. Lost for words and speechless as im not one to believe, but seeing is believing and i know what i saw. It wasn't from this world, but breath taking.
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Chevron shaped object suspended over trees in Cary, NC. I am a male nearing retirement age. I have lived decades in Raleigh, but I grew up in Cary, NC.
I attended NC State University – receiving bachelor’s degrees in Business Management, Economics, and Computer Science. I write software for retailers as a profession. Tonight, Saturday, November 30, 2019, I witnessed what seemed to be a UFO over Cary, NC.
At about 6:45 pm, it was raining as I was leaving my in-laws home. I headed North East on Kildaire Farm Road, and I was approaching the intersection of Cary Parkway. Traffic was modest and slightly slower than usual.
As I approached the traffic light, it turned red, and I began to brake. Because I looked at the traffic light, I noticed what appeared to be a commercial jet above and beyond the traffic light. I nitially, I simply thought it was an airplane, and I forced myself to concentrate on the intersection and traffic light until I stopped for the traffic light.
I then realized that what I saw did not make sense because commercial airlines do not fly that low over cities, and nothing that large could fly that slowly. It looked like the underside of a jet wing. However, it was huge, but it was initially difficult to judge the height – even though it appeared to be moving very slowly.
The slow speed resembled a blimp over a football game. I speculated that at that speed, it must be something like a blimp that was covering the NC State vs UNC football game at Carter Finley stadium. However, it looked nothing like one, and it did not seem possible that a drone could be flying at night when it was raining that hard.
The sky appeared to be a very faint light gray color – not black yet, and tree lines were not visible. With only a few exceptions (like the traffic light), the night was like a black and white TV show – no reds, greens, blues, or yellows. This was the heaviest part of the rainstorm and because of the rain, my windows were “rolled” up.
I could see maybe ten lights on the underside of a “wing(?)” One or more may have been blinking, but if so, not with the usual intensity of an airplane light. My focus was on lights that were not blinking. They seemed to have the intensity of a 60-watt incandescent outdoor house light when viewed from the street.
The lights retained their distance from each other and moved synchronously. I studied them carefully for hints that this was projected from a source on the ground – such as light on raindrops or objects at different heights like buildings, trees, etc., but there was no “overspray” of light.
There was a faint glow around the lights – making them appear to illuminate a modest amount of the underside of the “wing” that the lights were mounted on. Without a visual frame a reference for something like this, it was challenging to estimate the height, but it appeared to be hundreds of feet high – not thousands. Obviously, it was higher than the trees, but not by a lot.
I never saw anything that resembled an airplane body. It was either obscured from view or there was not one. It may have been shaped like a chevron/B-2 bomber (but a much lighter color).
The object appeared as if it may have been heading in my direction (i.e. away from the airport), and it was in the process of making a slow, left turn (i.
e. to my right). I had to move my head down, towards the steering wheel, because my roof was blocking my vision, and I saw the plane at roughly forty-five degrees up and in front and slightly to the right of me – like it was over the Wendy’s restaurant ahead on the right.
It then occurred to me that I could only hear traffic and rain noises – nothing like the sound of an airplane. Only this one object appeared. I could not say how the object disappeared.
It seemed to disappear behind something like a tree. It never seemed to change course. There were no visible contrails.
This was visible for perhaps ten seconds. Then, someone in a SUV like mine came up fast on my left (in the left turn lane) and stopped quickly. I could see two people inside, and they were moving around inside – flailing their arms.
I assumed they wanted me to lower my window, so I did. The vehicle contained a lady driver with dark hair – perhaps in her mid-thirties and what may have been a five to ten-year-old girl(?) in the passenger seat. The lady excitedly asked, “did you see that?” I had been deep in thought – trying to understand what I had seen, and because she came from behind me, my first thought was “seen what?”.
Then I realized that she had seen this, too. So, I answered, “yes”. She replied, “what was it?”, but I had no answer.
I did not want to say that it was a “flying saucer” – because of how improbable that was, and to nitpick, it did not appear to be round. I then noticed that the traffic light had turned green and that another car was behind me. I wondered if they had seen it, too.
Then, I thought “the lady beside me already knows it is unidentified (as in UFO) – that’s why she is asking” and “you had better answer quickly before people behind us get upset”. The car immediately behind me came around me on the right (turn lane), but I did not know who else was approaching me from behind. I did not want to scare the little girl in the SUV, but finally, I blurted out “a spaceship?” because I could not think of anything more accurate/likely.
While the window was open, I attempted to smell the air for jet fuel, but I could only smell rain. I had my cell phone during the observation, and I considered getting it out to take a photo/movie, but I was wearing blue jeans, and I knew that I could not remove it quickly. Also, it was still raining, and I was somewhat dumbfounded about what I had seen.
Then, the object disappeared. I glanced back up, but I could no longer find the “airplane”, so I proceeded through the intersection, and I believe the lady made a left turn. I stopped at a nearby restaurant near the Maynard Road intersection, and then I called my wife.
I wrote this description as soon as I arrived home. I am reporting this information as accurately, precise, and truthful as possible.
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7-8 elongated objects flying in straight line North to South along coast of North Carolina. Mid-level clouds above the objects.
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red and green lights formed in a line moving across sky Taking pictures of the sky because the starts looked cool and caught a couple red and green colored dots formed in a line against the tree line in the pictures. It is seen in two pictures where it is in a different placement in each like it was moving.
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Large circle of light flying noiselessly in a straight line at a fair rate of speed At about 22:15 my wife and I pulled up into our driveway in Mount Holly, North Carolina and was going into the house when we noticed a large orange light flying across the sky above the trees at a fair rate of speed. It was very bright and it appeared lower and closer than the typical plane traffic we see from the airport. It was also flying in a different direction (East) than planes we normally see.
I was so fascinated that I almost forgot to take a photo, but was able to get a quick photo with my phone before it went out of sight, but unfortunately it was quite a distance away. The interesting thing was there was no noise at all, totally quiet. It appeared as a circle to us, but we zoomed in on the photo it appeared to be a rectangle with four sides visible.
There was light cloud cover and it almost looked like a typical moon in a light cloudy sky. There were no flashing lights and it appeared to be juste one single light.
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While on a cruise off of Italy on the above time and date my friend and I observed a very bright oval shape, strange orange color light above the water between are ship and Italy. We stared at it for a few seconds, and then in a split second the oval shape changed to a straight light as it shot up into the sky. We both said if we did not see it we wouldn't believe it! We did not see any solid object in this incident.
North Carolina UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 30 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Circle | 23 reported sightings | 13.94% of all reports |
Unknown | 13 reported sightings | 7.88% of all reports |
Other | 12 reported sightings | 7.27% of all reports |
Triangle | 11 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Fireball | 10 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
Cigar | 9 reported sightings | 5.45% of all reports |
Formation | 8 reported sightings | 4.85% of all reports |
Sphere | 8 reported sightings | 4.85% of all reports |
Oval | 7 reported sightings | 4.24% of all reports |
Disk | 6 reported sightings | 3.64% of all reports |
Rectangle | 5 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
Cylinder | 4 reported sightings | 2.42% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 1.21% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 1.21% of all reports |
Egg | 2 reported sightings | 1.21% of all reports |
Chevron | 2 reported sightings | 1.21% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 0.61% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 0.61% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 0.61% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.61% of all reports |
North Carolina UFO Sightings From 2019 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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November | 24 reported sightings | 14.55% of all reports |
October | 22 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
July | 16 reported sightings | 9.70% of all reports |
September | 15 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
December | 15 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
August | 14 reported sightings | 8.48% of all reports |
May | 13 reported sightings | 7.88% of all reports |
June | 12 reported sightings | 7.27% of all reports |
January | 12 reported sightings | 7.27% of all reports |
April | 10 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
March | 8 reported sightings | 4.85% of all reports |
February | 4 reported sightings | 2.42% of all reports |
North Carolina UFO Sightings From 2019 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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Thursday | 31 reported sightings | 18.79% of all reports |
Saturday | 30 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Friday | 27 reported sightings | 16.36% of all reports |
Tuesday | 21 reported sightings | 12.73% of all reports |
Sunday | 21 reported sightings | 12.73% of all reports |
Wednesday | 19 reported sightings | 11.52% of all reports |
Monday | 16 reported sightings | 9.70% of all reports |
North Carolina UFO Sightings From 2019 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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07/25/19 | 5 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
10/10/19 | 5 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
06/28/19 | 4 reported sightings | 2.42% of all reports |
10/05/19 | 4 reported sightings | 2.42% of all reports |
04/04/19 | 4 reported sightings | 2.42% of all reports |
North Carolina UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 63 reported sightings | 38.18% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 34 reported sightings | 20.61% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 21 reported sightings | 12.73% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 18 reported sightings | 10.91% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 17 reported sightings | 10.30% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 12 reported sightings | 7.27% of all reports |
All North Carolina Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in North Carolina, in 2019
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.