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Cary, North Carolina UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 43 UFO sighting reports in Cary, North Carolina to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (10 reports, 23.26% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (7 reports, 16.28% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (10 reports, 23.26% of total).
- 2012 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (7 reports, 16.28% of total).
- 01/10/10 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 2.33% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (20 reports, 46.51% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Cary, North Carolina
These Cary, 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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Saw a light moving across the sky. Light did not have a flashing beacon like planes and helicopters.
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Beautiful meteorite flashed by us just as the Spacex rocket flew overhead. The rocket was very high heading northeast and the meteorite was heading east very low and disintegrated into multiple colors and fragments.
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Driving on Holly Springs Rd, my wife & I saw an object flying just above the treetops. Object was circular, approximately 30 ft in circumference. It had 5 lights that were equally distant & all lights were toward the outside of the object (I am describing the underside of the object).
It was tilted slightly in the direction that it was moving. Speed was probably 20 mph when we viewed it. We turned on Cary Parkway to try to follow it, but could not see the object any longer due to the quantity of trees.
We unfortunately did not get any video. More people had to see it, because traffic was very heavy.
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Very bright and very slow moving from West to East. We first noticed its location next to the moon and thought it was a morning star. But it keep moving very very slowly to the East.
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Witnessed silver object that would shine bright when the sun reflected looked as if it was slowly spinning but staying in one place. I was driving on 540 towards RDU. Hope someone reads this who saw it too.
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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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6 oval metalic craft in a slant line formation silently and quickly flew over my house in the early morning darkness about 4AM. Star gazing early in the morning Saturday 4AM the 29th of june. It was still dark when 6 oblong oval craft in formation silently flew right over my house very fast.
Quick moving metalic craft about 2000 feet in the air put off a dull glow of silver lined up in a slant formation 6 in a row .
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Cross-shaped with light lining bottom of each of the four "arms," hovering over two different areas, then disappeared quickly. Riding down Hwy 64 at Cary/Apex heading West. Small airplane size cross shaped with four arm like off the center, each were small light white and blue toned under each "arm" hovering over trees two different areas within 3 miles apart.
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Stealthy outline of a large totally silent hovering craft. The outline of a house sized craft silently cruised over me in my work parking lot early one dark morning hovering above the old navy store perfectly still.this was a ufo with stealth technology blending in with the building and the darkness.
I got out of my car and stared at it from the middle of the parking lot for about 2 minutes, then it silently darted off to my left at astonishing speed.
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I have never seen anything like it before On the deck of my house looking at moon all of a sudden different types of lights flashing from moon view it appeared to light up and dim down no sound but very changing orbital bright lights I notified of they did not see what I saw so if anyone saw this you would know it was not from our world. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Elongated star or Cross over Cary, NC. Two just sitting there, one larger than the other and a third appears. Saw this last year This is actually something I saw around this time last year.
That time I got a clear view of it because I had dropped someone at the airport when it was dark outside and that area is very dark and there was no traffic as it was nearing dawn. It reminded me of when you drive and the moon seems to be chasing you. It was very bright and looked like a cross.
As much as I rubbed my eyes and expected it to be like a circle, it never changed. I was not sure if it was some kind of a message or what. This appeared to be the same thing, but farther away from where I was standing.
It looked like a star shape but longer at the bottom, or a cross but was farther away. Much more defined shape then when you see a star. I thought it might be a satellite but it was not moving and there were a couple.
One closer or larger and the other smaller but they belonged together, you could tell. I stopped a few people in the parking lot and asked what they thought and they were very serious about it and said my thoughts and that they were just sitting there and what are they. I drove off and looked over and then there was a third one.
I know this is the same thing I saw last year. My neighborhood is wooded and I lost the view once I returned home. I did not get any photographs.
I will if I see it again.
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Triangular craft cary nc On Sturdivant, saw silent large dark triangular craft with six round lights below it. I lost sight of it due to tree coverage.
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9 orange spheres in triangular shape The UFOs were "orbs" the color of orange. There where 9 of them in groups of 3 in triangular shape. Then 3 disappeared, leaving 6 behind.
Then another 3 disappeared with 3 left. Then the 3 remaining stretched out to cover the size that the original 9 took up. Then finally they disappeared too.
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One exceptionally large and bright light appeared, dimmed, then moved away to the south, passing an identical object heading north. I was laying on my back on my deck listening to music and not paying particular attention to the sky when something extremely bright caught my eye through the trees overhead. Just as I got up to get a better look away from the tree, it appeared smaller and dimmer.
Originally it was white and round, the size and brightness of a 1/4th sized full moon, nearly but not quite directly overhead, maybe up 75 degrees looking towards the west. A moment later it looked like a dim star in the same spot in the sky, perhaps climbing straight up although the speed would have had to be exceptional. Then immediately after dimming the object started moving exactly due south at a consistent speed.
I perceived it as being at an extremely high altitude and high rate of speed. About half a second after I realized it was moving I saw another object identical to the first in fairly close proximity coming from the south and headed the exact opposite direction right by it at the same! speed and apparent altitude as the original object. Both objects very gradually became dimmer as they moved away in opposite directions and maintained the same heading and velocity until I couldn't see either anymore.
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Black Triangle over Cary, N.C. Accompanied by Three Black Helicopters As I finished up moving furniture for some family, I heard the distinct roar of choppers (helicopters) in the distance.
Being one to investigate late-night military craft (which I knew that they were); I sat outside on the steps, waiting for the choppers to pass. About four and a half minutes into waiting, they broke from behind the tree line, and flew by the house. They were blacked-out, say for the red lights on the noses of the aircraft.
As I stood to go back inside, my attention was drawn to huge white lights coming from behind the trees on the opposite side of my field of view. I watched the lights emerge, and saw what I thought was a low-flying plane taking off from our local airport. The craft moved quite slowly, and had three very bright white lights forming a perfect triangle.
The lights were very large to boot, almost touching one another. I was able to make out another smaller white light in the centre of the three, as well as a slowly bli! nking red light on the plane opposite of the craft’s direction of movement (i.e.
a taillight). I was able to see a black body around the lights. The craft disappeared behind tree cover, and never attained significant elevation.
Both the choppers and the unidentified craft headed in the same direction; east, towards downtown Cary. It was only later that I realised that both the choppers and the craft came from the west of us, nowhere near the airport, which is north and east by a long shot. The craft originated from the vicinity of Jordan Lake.
The next day, my boss said that he too heard choppers near his house in Wake Forest, sometime around 23:15. He saw nothing, though.
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6 Triangluar hovering craft with synchronized lights My husband and I were driving at approximately 6:30pm, 1/17/14, ((sic. 1/16/2014)) in Cary, North Carolina, in our car and noted 5 or 6 bright white lights in a diagonal and evenly spaced formation across the sky while we were driving. After a couple of minutes, one light changed to red and was blinking.
Then the lights one by one turned to red and they moved in formation to the West and went lower in altitude and hovered in a horizontal line formation. The objects were hovering very low, and I rolled down the window and they were close enough that I could see the bottom of a triangular craft each with one bright white light and a red light. They were very quiet, but I could hear a dull vibration sound that seemed to be coming from the objects.
The objects moved away after a few minutes and began to synchronize red lights one after another. In about 2 minutes they moved away and out of sight.
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bright glowing circular object south of Raleigh Durham Airport in Cary NC. Witnessed a very bright and large glowing circular light. Approximately 5 to 7 miles south of Raleigh Durham Airport in Cary NC.
Object was stationary for a long period of time then gradually moved. Red/yellow/orange glow. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
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Red glowing light flew overhead prior to fireworks show Last night (July 4, 2013) I had a series of several UFO sightings around 9pm, while outside watching the Fourth of July fireworks at Regency Park in Cary, NC. I was sitting near Symphony Lake, under some pine trees. I had a clear view of the lake, and of the sky above the lake where the fireworks would be (there was a gap in the group of pine trees, with a direct view of the spot across the lake where the fireworks are set off).
We were all looking up at the sky, waiting for the fireworks to begin. Before the fireworks started, I suddenly saw a bright red glowing light fly over the lake. For a moment I thought it was the fireworks starting, but quickly realized it wasn't.
The reddish light appeared quite large and low in the sky. It appeared about the size of a dime held at arm's length. It appeared to be flying lower than an airplane would fly.
The strangest thing was that the light pulsed, or glowed, in a slow and steady rhythm, completely different from t! he lights on an airplane or helicopter. It glowed bright, and then waned, and when it had just about disappeared, it would resume glowing up to a bright red, and then wane again. It flew in a straight path above the lake.
It flew overhead a total of three times before the fireworks started. I overheard one person near me commenting on it, wondering what it was. Then, I also saw a different light formation fly over the lake.
These ones were different: there were two lights, a yellow light and a green light (yellow on the left, green on the right), and they appeared to be connected as if they were on a solid object. These lights were smaller than the red light, about the size of typical airplane lights. They flew without blinking or pulsing.
They flew overhead twice before the fireworks started, and then once during the fireworks show, at which point several people around me were joking that “that plane is going to run into the fireworks,” and other people said no, it must be higher than the fireworks. I couldn't tell whether it was higher than the fireworks or not. Then, after the end of the fireworks, when everyone was walking back to the parking lots, I saw the yellow and green lights fly overhead one more time, over the road (a little lower than an airplane would fly).
This is not my first UFO sighting; I've had at least dozen UFO sightings in the Raleigh-Durham area in a little over a year. Most (but not all) of my previous sightings have happened when I'm driving at night. Most of my previous sightings have also happened when I'm by myself, which made me question, at first, whether I was imagining things or not.
Most of these sightings have been similar to what I saw last night-- strange colored lights flying in the sky, that don't look like airplanes or helicopters, and without any noise. I've also seen one "black triangle" with lights that hovered motionless directly over my car, and I've also seen white starlike lights moving in the sky (seen in daytime, and once at night). My first UFO sighting, in April 2012, was the one that scares and baffles me the most.
I would be willing to discuss it over the phone. The sighting last night was the first one where I could verify for myself that other people were seeing and talking ab! out the same things I saw. I don't know what these lights are, or what it means, but at least I know that other people saw them too.
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Super fast low flying red light. No sound was heard.
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Prior to this event, there was about 25-60 seconds of a very low vibrating hum that was almost piercing because it hit so many decibels at one time….but it would wax and wane so the vibration sound did not hurt too long. Intrigued…and the wind was VERY strong due to an "incoming" storm from Ohio….
I began truing to arrange some things on my patio to keep them safe from the wind and there was this HUGE flash of light above me that literally gave me enough light to see what I was doing in almost pitch black…when I looked up, it had fizzled but it was a very true meteorite like tail as in when you see a shower, but this was much more powerful that all the stars I have seen do that. I am sad I did not see the actual beginning of it, and am curious to know what I saw. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
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Cary, 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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Light | 10 reported sightings | 23.26% of all reports |
Circle | 6 reported sightings | 13.95% of all reports |
Triangle | 5 reported sightings | 11.63% of all reports |
Unknown | 4 reported sightings | 9.30% of all reports |
Sphere | 4 reported sightings | 9.30% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 4.65% of all reports |
Other | 2 reported sightings | 4.65% of all reports |
Cross | 2 reported sightings | 4.65% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 2.33% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 2.33% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 2.33% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 2.33% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 2.33% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 2.33% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 2.33% of all reports |
Cary, 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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June | 7 reported sightings | 16.28% of all reports |
May | 5 reported sightings | 11.63% of all reports |
September | 4 reported sightings | 9.30% of all reports |
November | 4 reported sightings | 9.30% of all reports |
March | 4 reported sightings | 9.30% of all reports |
October | 4 reported sightings | 9.30% of all reports |
January | 4 reported sightings | 9.30% of all reports |
July | 3 reported sightings | 6.98% of all reports |
April | 3 reported sightings | 6.98% of all reports |
August | 2 reported sightings | 4.65% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 4.65% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 2.33% of all reports |
Cary, 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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Thursday | 10 reported sightings | 23.26% of all reports |
Friday | 9 reported sightings | 20.93% of all reports |
Saturday | 7 reported sightings | 16.28% of all reports |
Wednesday | 6 reported sightings | 13.95% of all reports |
Monday | 5 reported sightings | 11.63% of all reports |
Tuesday | 4 reported sightings | 9.30% of all reports |
Sunday | 2 reported sightings | 4.65% of all reports |
Cary, 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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01/10/10 | 1 reported sightings | 2.33% of all reports |
06/11/13 | 1 reported sightings | 2.33% of all reports |
04/29/05 | 1 reported sightings | 2.33% of all reports |
11/08/18 | 1 reported sightings | 2.33% of all reports |
09/15/11 | 1 reported sightings | 2.33% of all reports |
Cary, 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 | 20 reported sightings | 46.51% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 11 reported sightings | 25.58% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 5 reported sightings | 11.63% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 3 reported sightings | 6.98% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 3 reported sightings | 6.98% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 2.33% of all reports |
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