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Burnsville, North Carolina UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 17 UFO sighting reports in Burnsville, North Carolina to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "unknown" (5 reports, 29.41% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 29.41% of total).
- Tuesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (6 reports, 35.29% of total).
- 2005 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 29.41% of total).
- 10/21/11 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 11.76% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (5 reports, 29.41% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Burnsville, North Carolina
These Burnsville, North Carolina UFO reports are 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 walked out of my daughter's house to smoke and saw this. It was there for several minutes before I recorded. There were smaller lights going to and from the larger light.
There were roughly 4 smaller lights that I thought were planes until they disappeared into the larger light.
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saucer, fling hardhat! ((name and personal information deleted))___________private pilot, airplane and helicopter ((address deleted)) Burnsville, NC 28714 ((e-address deleted)) U.F.O.
Sighting at my home June 6, 2017 time: 15:45, (3:45 pm) Object description: disc shaped with apparent dome, bright shiny metallic, highly polished surface like chrome. The disc appeared to be about 100' in diameter. There were no lights or markers, and no sound, no con trail from the object.
Looked like a giant flying chrome hardhat! Weather: clear sky, one cloud, small cumulus to the SW., temp 72 deg. f.
Note; the afternoon sun was bright and illuminated the object perfectly Observation: object traveling from the North East toward South West, observed in Eastern sky initially. The disc was in a right banked constant speed turn. I estimated the speed at 500-600 knots, altitude above ground 2500',(AGL), my elevation here is approximately 3000' (MSL).
The actual distance between myself and the object was less than one half mile,(1/2 mi.) The disc flew in a slight arc was observed by me for about 10-20 seconds and disappeared into the only cloud in the sky, I did not see it reappear on the backside of the small cloud an do not comprehend why this was not observed by me. This is a true statement made and written by me___((name deleted)).
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While traveling east on Highway 19, I was observing a lightning storm slightly north of the highway. Approximately 2 miles west of Burnsville, NC, I observed a disk shaped craft, illuminated by the flashes of lighting. I only saw the craft once, I searched the sky several more times, but was unable to spot the craft again.
At arm's length the craft was at least the size of a quarter, probably 800-1000 ft high and was extremely shiny. I cannot say about sound as I was driving at the time.
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Noiseless hovering craft. Clearly responed to human proximity. Witnessed for over an hour.
Video footage. The event took place in a heavily populated area and was witnsessed by two people. The craft was watched for half an hour before one of the witnesses took a video.
The craft was very oddly shaped with only one light shining at first. As one witness tried to get closer the craft moved away and many more lights became visible. The craft hovered over a house for several minutes and was noiseless.
It also moved away at breakneck speeds disappearing over a mountain before returning to hover over the same house only minutes later. I personally have seen the video and have no rational explanation for what the craft may be.
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Glowing silverish sphere type object, with bright swirling, varying illumination. Sphere appears quite often. While I go outside regularly to smoke a cigarette, my wife usually joins me.
Her and I have seen an object East of where we live. As I try to keep an eye on whatever it is, it moves in uniform. However, I checked the times of this objects appearance, for it only seems to appear around 11PM to 12AM.
Furthermore, this object doesn't seem to be an airplane, because, it is stationary. When it does decide to move, it moves like no helicopter I've seen. It moves in a darting motion, for an instant stopping hover.
There seems to be no noise but, the object it quite far East of where we are located. As I have been very interested in aircraft, this object seems to be nothing of this world. But, it has lights that look to sparkle like a stars glowing twinkle.
At a distance, I thought it were to be an aircraft because, it looks like the lights that glow from it could be red and green. However, what makes me believe this to be no standard aircraft is the way it moves. I have a feeling it could be a military experiment, for it appears at the same time, several nights out of the week.
I have just started documenting sightings because; I see this object quite often. My wife has also witnessed this object, and pointed it out to me. As I have seen this object before, just never mentioned it to her because, I didn’t want her to think I was a crazy person.
Appearance times are: 11 PM-12 AM, East of Burnsville, NC. Object description: The object is a circular shape, like looking at a floating ball. Color: Looks like a silver ball, bright swirling illumination (Lights could be; red, green, orange, white).
The object’s color is too difficult to see without a telescope, and or binoculars. However, object can be seen VERY clearly, to know it’s there.
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UPDATE Burnsville, NC SITING UPDATE- our reporting of light in the sky on this date in Burnsville, NC may have been the star Arcturus?.
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Changin Lights in the Sky! We are in the Black Mountains of Western North Carolina.My wife and I were walking east to west around 8 pm . we saw a bright color changing light in the north/west sky.
It was the brightest thing in the sky. a little bigger than the brightest star.8:00 PM we arrived home and viewed the object with binoculars for 15 minutes.
It changed from red to white to green and seemed to change shape at times.We phoned our friends, about 6 miles to the west of us ,thinking they would be closer to the object.They observed the object as we did.
We stayed on the phone with each other for a few minutes conferming what we were seeing. We saw the same thing . 15 minutes later it ''blinked '' out , gone.
it is a cold clear night . planes flying around the area. This object seemed stationary.
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3 sets of 3 lights hovering silently in night sky I regret not finding your site and filing this as soon as this happened, but better late than not. At about 9:30 on a mid-October night in 2010 while walking my dog, I noticed lights in the southeast sky from our front yard. I regularly observe the night skies and am familiar with the usual constellations at different times of the year, and follow the movements of planets as well.
I live outside of Burnsville, NC, in a very rural area with little light pollution, and the night sky was clear. What I saw were three sets of lights, each set arranged as three points of an equilateral triangle, and those arranged as a triangle. The lights were not blinking, two, maybe three of them had a greenish color.
They were low on the horizon, I detected no solid shape associated with them. Most unusual was the three sets of lights moved, slightly up and down, with respect to each other. I tested this by positioning myself in a place in the yard where I could align the top of a hemlock tree (stationary in a breeze-less night) to a set of lights, which definitely moved with respect to the treetop.
I detected no sound, nor was able to perceive how far away they were. After watching this for one minute, maybe more, I rushed inside the house to get my wife and daughter to see it, and by the time they were alerted and out, the lights were gone, not visible anywhere else in the sky. I regret not waiting to see how they disappeared.
Having watched the night sky where I live for many years, seen the ISS several times, seen comets, a bolide, assorted aircraft, I’d never witnessed lights like these and the fact that they moved was compelling. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD)).
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super fast , moving light I was sitting on the north side of my home staring at the stars when a very fast ''strobe like'' light zipped by overhead. Not leaving a trail like a meteor ,so fast it seemed to ''strobe'' across the sky. north to south.
It was not a ''dot '' of light , but seemed horizontal. Really too fast to see a clear shape and i mean zipped across the sky ! It made no sound.
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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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A dark object with dull lights 200-300 yrds up in the sky , moving in total silence At 7:45 pm est 11/29/05 ,(one hour ago) I was standing on my deck which faces south. I happened to look up in the south sky I noticed a grouping of lights moving across the sky, moving east to west through our valley. They were dull lights and the object seemed to blend with the dark sky background .
It moved in total silence .I listened for a moment and could hear nothing. It looked as if it was 200-300 yards up ,about the size ,if you hold 3 fingers horizontal at arms length in front of you .
((NUFORC Note: We spoke with this witness via telephone, and he seemed quite credible to us. PD)).
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Another sighting in Burnsville,NC 11/29/05 1.) Let me correct the Burnsville ,NC sighting reports I made. On the first report the hour time is 19:45 hours on the update the day date is 11/29 .
thank you 2.)Today I heared of a second sighting in Burnsville, NC on 11/29/05. I was in Appalachian Java, a little coffee shop we have on Main street.
I met a friend I hadn't seen for a while and started telling (yet again) about the event of the 29th,when the owner of the shop offers that another person was in a couple of weeks ago saying ,her sister saw somthing also. He told me her name and after returning home I made contact with the sister and her husband. this is what he told me; he came home soon after dark.
After a ''short while'' (didn't mention the time) he went to the car for something, he noticed a group of lights different (bright white and red) in the sky moving in strange patterns the sky. The lowest being 10 degrees above the horizen (he said ,that one being in the direction of my house ). His wife brought binoculars from the house and he tryed to focus on the crafts, but he said they didn't seem to ''hold a shape''.
His wife lost interest after about a minute . He watched them for about 5 minutes until the last one ,the one in the direction of my house, ''faded'' from view.
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I REPORTED THIS ON 11/28/05 .AFTER VIEWING THE ANGLES AND LAND MARKS,THIS IS WHAT I OBSERVED. I WAS STANDING 14' ABOVE GROUND ON MY DECK .
IT WAS A CLEAR NIGHT. I WAS FACING SOUTH-WEST WHEN A BLUEISH/WHITE LIGHT COUGHT MY EYE IN THE SOUTH SKY .IT WAS OBSCURED BY THE BRANCHES OF AN ALMOST BARE APPLE TREE.
IT MOVED INTO AN UNOBSTRUCTED VIEW AS IT MOVED FROM EAST TO WEST .ABOUT 300 YARDS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF AN OLD PASTURE, ABOUT LEVEL VIEW OFF MY DECK IS A ROW OF TALL LOCUST TREES .BEHIND THE TREES IS A DIM LIGHT FROM A STREET ANOTHER 200-300 YARDS AWAY .
AS THE LIGHTS PAST INTO THE CLEARING ,THE LOCUST DID NOT OBSCURE THE LIGHTS ,AS THE APPLE TREE DID.I COULD MAKE OUT A FAINT LINE OF A CRAFT BETWEEN THE TWO END LIGHTS .THERE WERE 2 DIMMER LIGHTS ,ONE ABOVE THE OTHER IN THE MIDDLE .
SIZE? IF I WERE TO HOLD MY ARM OUT ,WITH 2 FINGERS ,FROM THE TIP OF MY FINGER TO THE CROOK OF MY THUMB ,WAS ITS SIZE. IT THEN MOVED ,WITHOUT A SOUND ,WEST IN THE DIRECTION OF MADISON COUNTY ,NC.
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Fireball in the sky while viewing Mars 10/31/05 My husband and I were getting the telescope setup to view Mars. The sky was very clear, there were no lights since we are in the mountains. We hadn't completed the setup yet, but we were looking at Mars when we both saw a bright fireball, from our perspective it was about 6" down and 4" to the right.
The fireball was traveling N to S we assumed it was space junk or a satellite, because it had a fire trail behind it. The fireball went out several seconds after it appeared, but the burning trail lasted for a couple of minutes. With the naked eye we saw blue and white colors only.
Was this just a satellite? We haven't been able to find any info about it.
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Light orb in daylight We were parked at the top of a state park in a parking area on Mount Mitchell in North Carolina. My sister and I were sitting in a parked car, while our mother was finishing her hike. We could see across a valley onto the next mountain.
We could see the trail that people were walking up. We could see the people as they were hiking up that trail. A light orb hovered up the mountain in a fashion unlike the people.
It went to a ledge and hovered for around 10-15 seconds. After that it went to the top peak of the mountain and shot off at an extremely fast speed. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date is approximate.
PD)).
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I saw the same type of UFO at two different times in my life, once at age nine and again at age 30. I saw the same type of UFO twice in my life. The first time I was nine years old.
I had the habit of getting up very early in the morning. One morning I got up around 5 a.m.
, I believe, looked out our picture window and saw it. It was a large round silver craft flying very low and slow. It had no windows or lights.
Needless to say, I went back to bed very quickly! The second time I was thirty years old and had my young daughter with me. She did not see the craft for some unknown reason. I had just gotten off work and was sitting in my car in the turnoff lane to go to McDonalds.
This day it was nearly 12 noon. On the right side of the highway there is a bank with a ridge of trees. The same type craft, large, round and silver suddenly appeared over those trees.
Once again, it had no lights or windows. It stopped right nearly directly over my car and hovered sort of like a helicopter and then it took off very fast! I thought that I would see it as I headed home. You know how fast a jet moves, even when it is flying very low? This thing had to have been AT LEAST 1000 times faster! I didn't see it on the way home, nor did I ever hear anyone else say they had seen anything strange in town that day around noon.
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I remember I was 9 years old and had the habit of getting up very early in the morning before anyone else. On this particular morning I was sitting on the couch looking out the picture window when I saw it.a round silvery white craft flying very slow and very low, maybe 20 yards in front of the house.
It scared me so bad, I flew back to bed. I saw the very same type craft 21 years later. I was 30, married, with one child and another on the way.
I don't know why that seems significant. The time was around 12 noon on a Friday and I was sitting in the turn-off lane to go to McDonald's to get some lunch. I had my 3 year-old daughter with me.
She saw nothing though. The craft flew over some trees on the side of the highway, seemed to stop directly over where I was, hovered a few seconds and then zoomed away at lightening speed, faster than a jet. I know that it was faster than a jet because I thought, I'll be able to see it when I get closer to my house.
I never saw it anymore. It was gone. Funny thing, I asked around to see if anyone else saw anything strange in the town of Burnsville that Friday at 12 noon.
Evidently I was the only one who saw it. Or anyone else would feel stupid admitting to seeing something like that. But I know what I saw, both times.
((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
Burnsville, North Carolina UFO Sightings 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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Unknown | 5 reported sightings | 29.41% of all reports |
Light | 4 reported sightings | 23.53% of all reports |
Circle | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Burnsville, North Carolina UFO Sightings 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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October | 5 reported sightings | 29.41% of all reports |
November | 4 reported sightings | 23.53% of all reports |
June | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
April | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
September | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Burnsville, North Carolina UFO Sightings 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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Tuesday | 6 reported sightings | 35.29% of all reports |
Friday | 4 reported sightings | 23.53% of all reports |
Monday | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Thursday | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Burnsville, North Carolina UFO Sightings 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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10/21/11 | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
11/29/05 | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
10/20/09 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
04/05/10 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
06/30/72 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Burnsville, North Carolina UFO Sightings 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 | 5 reported sightings | 29.41% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Burnsville, North Carolina
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Burnsville, North Carolina.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2022 | 1 UFO Reports | Burnsville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2022 |
2017 | 1 UFO Reports | Burnsville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2017 |
2015 | 1 UFO Reports | Burnsville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2015 |
2013 | 1 UFO Reports | Burnsville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2013 |
2012 | 1 UFO Reports | Burnsville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2012 |
2011 | 2 UFO Reports | Burnsville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2011 |
2010 | 2 UFO Reports | Burnsville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2010 |
2009 | 1 UFO Reports | Burnsville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2009 |
2005 | 5 UFO Reports | Burnsville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2005 |
1972 | 2 UFO Reports | Burnsville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 1972 |
All North Carolina Cities with UFO Sightings
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in North Carolina