North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2023

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Three orange orbs two in front one trailing behind came directly over our home going generally west to east We were outside Dec 31 approx 830-845 pm, Fairly rural area with little light pollution. Husband saw them first as I was coming out of the house he told me to look. ;ufos he said.

My husband is a no nonsense police officer and this kind of shook him a little. They flew low and steady over the house and continued east until they disappeared. Two in front one behind.

Absolutely no sound. Maintained level speed and height. I managed to get two pics one is blurry the other (the third orb) I was able to get a good picture.

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Oval object with lights moving across the sky. The lights turned off & it became difficult to see it moving. I observed an oval shaped object with lights moving across the sky.

The lights turned off and then it became hard to see the object but you could still see the outline of the oval. A couple in the car beside me at the stoplight saw it as well. We all had our heads out the window looking and pointing.

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My brother and I saw a large reddish-white light over the lake. It increased in brightness and then shot off to the east extremely fast My brother and I were preparing to drive into Durham, which is about 100 miles from my house. We noticed a large extremely bright white light out over the lake.

As we looked at it and wondered what it was it began to get brighter and brighter as it turned to a reddish-white color. It then sped off to te east at an extremely fast speed and was gone.

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AM sighting of a bright intense light that was hovering over tree line and a PM sighting with 2 crafts of the same "look". Around 7AM on Dec 13th, I was on the front porch of my home and saw an extremely intense light above the tree line on the hole of the golf course that my house is situated on. The trees are roughly 500-750 ft from my front porch viewpoint.

It was hovering left and right with periods of standstill. It was difficult for me to gauge the elevation of the object but it appeared lower than a plane in the sky at the time. Also of note is that there were no visible stars in that field of view, or in my periphery.

The only stars faintly visible were directly above my head. With regard to directional positioning, it was just a tad west of the rising sun, but not by much, and was lower than the sun in my field of vision. It caught my eye as it was so intensely bright.

It was very mesmerizing. And as it got my attention, I noticed it was periodically emitting a blue light, almost like a beam but more of a tentacle appearance than a typical “linear” laser we think of. The object was relatively stable and hard to get an idea of the exact shape because the light was so bright.

However, it looked almost like a pyramid in nature. But would hover around in a small vicinity without much perceived pattern, at least to my eye. I wanted to get a picture but my phone was dead.

As I was in awe, a member of the household was leaving for work and saw the same thing. She agreed it was strange but had to leave for work. The object was gone when I came back outside with a family member’s charged phone, within 2 mins of me going inside to retrieve the phone.

I probably would have dismissed this or even forgotten about the morning event but late that evening around midnight, I was called outside by a family member who claimed they saw an “orb.” Remembering the event from 18 hrs ago, I came outside and saw the same thing I did in the morning along with lots of animal sounds, like they were disturbed. This time, it was much closer to my house - it was basically above my yard and hovering around the ¾ acre that we live on from above.

This time, the pyramid structure was a bit more defined and the light was more of a gold color than the intense bright light I saw in the same morning. It would stay in one place for a few minutes and then hover around aimlessly. In addition to blue lights, this one also emitted red and green lights, both in a tentacle fashion.

The majority of the mass of the object would appear in a more rounded muted orange color when the projections were not coming from it. There were moments when it appeared to be transitioning between the two states (pyramid/tentacle structure and orb structure). It also seemed to have a noticeable blackness around it, almost like a cloud when I the pyramid form.

About 30 minutes later, 2 family members are watching this with me and another identical object appears on the other side of the house. It seemed to be the same type of object. These things hovered around for about 3 hrs and slowly moved from above our yard to the west.

I still had a visual on one from my window when I came to bed and got a video of it jetting away. After many many tries of trying to focus I finally did, right in time for it to be caught ZOOMING away!!! I was in total disbelief but this is the best evidence I have. From what I can see in the video, it moved away so fast that it left a blur with the video recording at 60fps.

It went from basically standstill to these speeds. Of note, a family member has claimed he has seen similar things and many orbs on this property but I gave it no attention due to “stigma.” I now believe every word he has said.

Now this is speculation but it felt like these things knew they were being watched, there was even a moment when it was behind trees when I was trying to record it and it seemed to move to areas that had optimal tree cover. Since I couldn't get a good in-focus picture, I sketched what I saw to the best of my ability. (the pyramid form) and the video shows the orb form zooming away.

The 2 most anomalous things I recall - 1) the speed of which this thing took off from a complete standstill 2) I lost sight one of the objects when viewing it from my room window only to find it, and when I did, this time it appeared to be casting a straight blue beam down to the ground. I did not have view of the ground beneath however the beam was linear this time, casting much further from the object than the wavy lights in the picture. It also appeared to be in orb form during this behavior.

The "tentacle" lights only appeared when it was in pyramid form.

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Driving up Raleigh road turning right. Right on to Zack's mill road. We saw what look like the planet Saturn.

In front of our vehicle. My daughter who is 30 and myself. I am 51.

We were riding in the car together and out of our windshield ahead of us we saw this object in the sky that at first I thought was a weather balloon and as I looked at it. I said to my daughter. What is that and she said mom? I was just thinking the same thing and we watched it.

It never moved it was big. It was the shape of the planet Saturn. It was mirrored or silver.

And it was extremely bright and all of a sudden. It just disappeared. We pulled into a neighborhood after it disappeared to see if we could spot it again and it was just gone.

I still don't know. What it is we saw but it was a unidentified flying object! We searched the sky after pulling into the neighborhood and saw 2 planes off in the distance. Not near where the sighting was and they looked nothing like what we saw and there was nothing else in the sky.

It was a blue sky and whatever we saw was gone. There was nothing!.

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Small light-colored object moving very fast then instantly disappeared. At approximately 1:45pm, in Fairmont, North Carolina, I saw a small light colored object traveling very very fast in a NW direction. It was either round or square, not oblong like a plane or jet.

I'm guessing it was at 30,000-40,000 feet. As I was watching it, it disappeared in an instant. That is what makes me think it was a UFO.

An aircraft would be visible for quite a longer distance till it was too far away to see. The object I saw simply vanished from the sky.

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I saw 3 lights staggered in distance coming from the north to the southeast 3 bright white objects traveling from the north to the southeast. They were not traveling in a straight line and were staggered in distance in unequal distances. Observed for about 40 seconds and videotaped for 25 seconds until they were out of sight.

I verified it was not Starlink and using satellite tracker app verified that there were no satellites in that area.

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A silver metallic disc rising vertically from the ground. On my way to work I saw off to my right a silver metallic disk like craft rising vertically from the ground. It seemed to be half a mile away rising from an open field.

I watched it until the nearby woods obscured it. Once I got clear of the trees I stopped to look for it but it was gone. The disc was flat with a slight bulge in the center top.

I could see the sunlight reflecting off the outside. I drove back and forth the same way the same time over several days trying to see if it was caused by the rising sun but I never saw anything like it again.

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Rotating, purple lights that split apart, fly separate directions & spark electricity between them once separated. Orbs change colors On Thursday, November 6th, 2023, I was asleep around 11:00 pm when I was awakened, unknown if this event is what woke me up. Because I was awakened, I went to the restroom, which is connected to my bedroom.

The toilet in the bathroom has a window that is able to see an open field, my driveway, the main road, the house next door, and the construction site that is in front of my house. While using the restroom, I noticed what I thought to be movement at the construction site, which is lit up by a pole light. Because my phone camera is better than my eyes, I went to go get my phone that was sitting beside my bed.

I came back into the toilet area and started recording the construction area in case there was actually something there that I couldn’t see or in case there was some vandalism going on, which I would check with the site manager in the morning. (Video #1 - 6:21 minutes). Meanwhile, on the northern, left side of my bathroom window these purple orb lights started going off and rotating in a circular motion.

There were 3-4 in a cluster, plus 1 in the sky. These purple lights would actually black out and disappear, but then when they would reappear, there would be a fewer number of them, and they would be split apart and closer to my camera. By the time the video is over, you can see these purple, orb-like lights actually shooting electricity between them, almost like sharing energy in order to maintain its presence.

Once the lights have narrowed down to only two existing lights, you can see that the purple lights turn to white and then there is a single red light. Eventually, you can see that these lights disappear altogether into the pitch blackness of the night into the same direction that they came from. (Video #2 - 10:19).

I have contacted the local police department and the local FAA office, which tell me that these two videos should be reported to you in particular because they are unaware of any device that matches this criteria. They have these videos sent to them through email.

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Flashing lights in formation. No plane silhouette seen. No tail lights Saw flashing lights in night sky that were in a formation.

It was flying fairly low.

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Looked up into sky at the moon, saw a whitish-silver, rounded double decker bus shaped object flying in a northern direction This morning at 7:55 AM I was walking my dog and looked up into the sky and saw the moon. I was standing on Spring Street at the corner of Fourth Street at that time. To the lower right of the moon there was an odd shaped flying object in the sky that was clearly visible and not a plane.

It was whitish-silver in color, it had the appearance of a solid object that resembled a rounded edged double decker bus. At one point it briefly changed shape into a flatter version within a gray cloud of dust then returned to the rounded double decker bus shape and the gray cloud of dust disappeared as quickly as it appeared. The object flew in a northern direction for approximately 5 minutes as I walked along the street with my dog and then it disappeared from view when the bright sunlight struck the object as I reached the corner of Spring and E.

Morehead Streets. When it was visible it was extremely high in the sky and there was no exhaust trail.

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Large bright solid white round object with orange light surrounding it. Silent no trail Object moved slowly to the north east direction. Object made no sound had no trail and promptly disappeared before my eyes.

Extremely bright, the size was slightly smaller than a basket ball appeared to be perhaps a mile overhead. I am prior army and have never seen anything like it. Was not a typical meteor or fireball as some might try to say it was.

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Bright orb with erratic movement I saw a bright orange/yellow light hanging in the sky, brighter than any star or planet by far. While watching it, it suddenly moved south for a moment then suddenly stopped again. After a few seconds it quickly moved north out of my line of sight.

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At @ 9:45 PM last night, my husband called to me to come out to the yard to see 'a light.' My husband called to me to come out back last night (@9:45 PM) to 'see the light." What we saw was three (3) lights in a circle enclosed in a circle.

My husband said he saw it 'move jerkily back and forth, and then stopped moving. When I got there, it had stopped moving and I saw those three lights, and then they disappeared and the object we saw was one bright light. At that point, we started guessing what it could be.

Airplane was ruled out, it was not moving, no noise, it wasn't a copter, for the same reasons, it wasn't anything we could figure out, including a satellite. We both started taking photos with our cell phones and later I was back in the house, I used my finger to spread the light in the photos closer in. It was an amazing blob of light, and in each frame for each photo, they went from a point of light in the sky, to these amorphous blobs of light, very bright and pretty stationary in the sky.

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Spiderweb.

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I took multiple videos of these Star like objects, the enclosed video shows 2 of them meeting at the little dipper I always look at the sky at night or early morning because I've seen strange lights or objects dozens of times over the past year and a half. I've taken hundreds of videos and photographs, I am including as many of the videos as possible taken today 10-13-23. I witnessed multiple objects at the same time, the the longest video with a duration of 2 mins 9 seconds you will see one star like object passing by Jupiter and then meeting up with a 2nd Star like object next to the little dipper before flying in Separate directions.

My hair was standing on end like I was about to discharge static electricity, ive only experienced this phenomenon 3 or 3 times when witnessing a ufo/uap. I TRIED TO ATTACH VIDEOS BUT THEY WERE ALL TOO BIG TO ATTACH. I don't want to downgrade the quality, they were taken in 2160×3840 on my Samsung Galaxy s23 Ultra.

If the investigator wants to see the videos I can attach to Email.

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Tumbling large red circular shape that was changing shape and moving NNW and didn’t appear to be too far above the ground Spotted as I was coming down Dixon, it was ahead of and above me on that road, traveling or rather tumbling and was emitting a dark red light from within. It looked transparent and seemed to have small points of red light within it. The inside area of the outer shape seemed to be illuminated, which is what made me think its light was internal And coming out of a transparent object.

I’ll try to draw something and attach it, but I’m no artist at all. There was no discernible sound, but there was some general noise from traffic around me. The craft was oval or oblong, an odd roundish shape that was either changing or tumbling as it moved smoothly in a straight line.

Its edges weren’t static, but also not undulating - this is very hard to describe. If you could imagine a sentient blob from a Hollywood movie, more round than any other shape, and it’s exterior was bulging or being pushed out from within slightly but constantly in various directions, it’s like that. But it also appeared translucent and not solid.

I just now remembered a cartoon from a couple decades ago called Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which has a character called Meatwad. It kind of moved like Meatwad does in that show. Not undulating, but tumbling, if a YouTube clip of that character may better explain the type of similar motion I saw on this object.

I turned North onto Burtonwood to whip into a church parking lot so I could jump out of the car away from most of the trees. Jumping out, I now noticed the single-engine prop plane which appeared initially to be following it as i was turning into the parking lot was now farther from it. I considered my initially seeing the two together may have been a forced perspective and that the plane perhaps wasn’t following it, and they were at two different altitudes and going in two different trajectories.

If it’s possible to research small aircraft air traffic in that area at exactly 8:07p on Oct 11, 2023, then it’s also possible that pilot or any passengers may have also seen it. In the 20 seconds or so of me trying to get into the parking lot and out of the car to record it, it had already moved a considerable distance and now appeared much smaller, and had turned from the deep red to an almost white color. Looking at my included map, I first saw it above Dixon, just 50’ or so to the west of Burtonwood, traveling NNW over First Presbyterian Church.

It was heading towards, and then across, E Garrison Blvd, and the Middle School. As it was crossing over E Garrison, I could still see the ‘tumbling’ but now instead of it looking like it had originally, with dark red lights within that were initially visible and with the craft appearing translucent, now the craft itself seemed to be a solid not-bright white color and was still on its same path it had been from when I’d first seen it. It disappeared behind the trees as it crossed over the William P Grier Middle School and there was no way I could’ve tailed it with the amount of traffic and red lights and stop signs all around that area compared to its speed.

And, as per what is apparently necessary to occur in practically all of these events, my iPhone 13 Pro’s camera, which was designed especially for videography and creating movies, was stumbling all over itself trying to decide what to focus on with so many things in its view. Zooming in didn’t help much. The larger white blob in the video is the object, the Cessna is now appearing above and much farther from it than it had just moments before.

If their respective altitudes in the vid are correct, then the object would have possibly been too far below them for any occupants to see it but, again, initially it looked to me like the Cessna was right behind it when the object was red. If an investigator would like to contact me, you may do so with my included information. ATTACHED MEDIA: In the attached map pic, the yellow egg is me traveling W, then cutting N on Burtonwood for a clear shot away from trees.

The red egg is the craft when I’d first seen it, the blue line it’s trajectory. The white egg is where I next saw it after jumping out of my car to record, before it disappeared behind trees at the middle school. My attempt at drawing a rough shape of the initially-transparent craft is attached.

Imagine a smooth yet ‘moving’ slate gray outer surface, with dark red light reflecting on the inside of that outer ring, and points of light inside. How it can be transparent so it appears as a hollow-yet-3D ring to me, with depth and lights inside it and moving around - it defies anything I’ve ever seen before and is confounding And frustrating to attempt to describe. In the attached vid, you can see the Cessna now some distance away from the object, where just moments before it appeared to be tailing the object which was perhaps my mistake from a forced perspective of the aircraft and the object.

Then again, it’s also possible the Cessna was tailing it then suddenly became concerned and veered away from it. I hope this information is helpful, as it’s the first object in the air that I could not identify since the last one I’d seen back in 1997, so I’ve had a very very long dry spell. Thanks!.

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Saw 3 circles of light Saw three circles of light forming a triangle, they were moving around at a slow pace, in circular and diagonal patterns. They were also twinkling, like stars, but I checked an astronomical map, and they didn’t match any known objects.

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Taking dog out and looking up at the sky I saw the object and wrote down the time when I got inside!.

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White Cigar Shaped Craft I was in an American Airlines Boeing 737 - just left Charlotte NC and weren't quite at cruising altitude (maybe 10 minutes into the flight) and saw a cigar shaped craft going SUPER fast below us. Maybe 10-20 seconds of flight. It did NOT look like a plane and it was going so fast I can't imagine it was another plane.