All Reported UFO Sightings in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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Satellite with red and blue lights flew close by then 3 distant satellites disappeared within seconds of each other It was a Friday night and I was playing with my insomniac toddler in our apartment which is on the top (third) floor. Then our neighbor started smoking which came into our shared bathroom vent and filled the apartment. I had no choice but to open our sliding balcony door which runs the length of our living room.

It was approaching midnight and suddenly I saw a satellite flying very close above the distant trees to the point that it was as large as an airplane. It had red lights on one vertical panel and blue lights on the other and flew silently and slowly. Since it was odd, I threw a ball into the other room so my toddler would run out of sight.

Less than a minute later I looked and it was flying the same path with the same slow speed which confused me because it should have passed out of sight already. This time it did and passed over our building out of sight. Ten minutes later I decided to go outside the balcony and hope my toddler would not notice.

It was probably after midnight and then I saw three satellites across the sky above the trees and among the stars. They were not stars because they had that distinct satellite flashing with red or white lights and were moving slowly in different directions. My toddler found me and ran on the balcony.

“Look at all those satellites!” I exclaimed. “Wow so many!” Leaning over the railing, I pointed to each one— one on the far left higher up and two directly ahead in the sky. Combined with three stationary stars in a diagonal, they made a formation that reminded me of the Big Dipper constellation.

Then suddenly right after I pointed, all three satellites disappeared within a few seconds of each other. The sky went completely black where they had been flying. They were nowhere to be seen and never re-emerged.

We could only see the three diagonal stationary stars. Up till that point, I had assumed these were all satellites owned by a private company or government…but I don’t believe satellites just suddenly disappear without a trace like that. They didn’t slowly fly out of sight like the original satellite with the red and blue.

So I thought I better report this odd incident in case it helps form a bigger picture of something… .

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Saw hovering solid red and green light, which quickly moved a long distance then back, then hovered again. I was taking my dog out and looked up at the sky, which was clear and with stars out. I noticed red/green lights quite high up in the NE as if it were an aircraft.

I live close to RDU and often see flights approaching/leaving the airport, which is 16 miles away. The lights were unblinking and did not move at all, which caught my attention. I watched this for quite a while (2-5 minutes?).

Suddenly, the lights jerked sharply towards the NW, then zipped back again and remained still for some time. This repeated twice more. I took a live photo with my iPhone and was able to capture the speed with which it moved.

I went inside after taking the picture.

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A friend of mine sent me 3 film clips of odd plasmas caught in his security cam. Almost seems like one group attacking another, sounds 2 clips show a prolonged bright plasma like object on a barn floor. Almost moves like an amoeba.

Longest film seems to be 4-5 electrical bolts flying into cloud like structures which then emit weird almost screams. Nothing I’ve seen or heard of before. Clips taken from a Siler city farm.

I can put you in contact with owner.

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Orb moving over the nighttime Chapel Hill suburbs Was out with a group of friends to watch the meteor shower. Never saw any meteors, up and ahead of us we spotted a white circular (object?) shape move east. it was very very high up and hard to discern what it was, but it wasn't blinking like a plane and it was way too high and far away to be a drone.

(And no, it wasn't a meteor - one of the people is super nerdy into this stuff and they didn't know what this was) It moved organically - a bit strange - as if someone was drawing on the sky with a laser pointer. It proceeded in that direction for about a minute, second by second a different person in our group noticing it until it became so dim it was gone. About 10 minutes later, we saw a bright white flash / explosion around the same area it originated.

Never seen anything like this!.

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Cluster of UFO’s seen close to Chapel Hill, NC My wife, myself, and my 2 boys were driving on I40E about a mile before the New Hope Church Rd exit at around 7:40pm and saw a cluster of what looked like 8-10 crafts that were changing colors from red to green, blue, bright white, etc and they colors changed at the same time across all crafts. At first we thought it was helicopters but soon realized with their movements and colors changing at identical times it could not be a fleet of helicopters. We passed by them as they hovered above and about 2 minutes later I looked through the rear glass of our vehicle and they had moved into a circular formation.

I had never seen anything like it it my life and wish I had thought to pull out my camera. After scouring the internet trying to find if others had reported the same thing as what we saw I noticed there was a video that was posted this week from some lights off the coast of Wilmington, NC, and I honestly believe these were the same lights that we saw. Would love to know if others around this areas have reported the same sightings.

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Multi-colored light array drifting low, pattern shapes and colors in RBG. 15/501 S towards Pittsboro, NC Was driving south on 15/501 following a friend to get pizza up the road past Manns Chapel. About 7:30-7:40 pm.

I have text messages to corroborate the day/time even though it has been a year. An array of lights multi-colored red/green/blue drifted into view moving slowish and appearing fairly low in the sky. The lights seemed to change colors and moved in a sequenced pattern almost mandalic effect.

Drifted into view and hung over the highway for a few moments, the array was floating parallell to the ground in a disc/rectangular formation (though no actual physical substance seemed to tie the lights together). It was dusk/ almost dark so perspective was weird, but the tree line ended up obscuring it from my vision after driving by. Seemed to be traveling fairly slowly (less than 50mph), and seemed to be headed in the opposite-ish direction (north).

My buddy was just as freaked out as I was when we arrived at our destination a few minutes later. He drove in a! separate vehicle and was in front of me by about 200 yards. It has been on my mind for the past year.

One of the most unusual things I’ve ever experienced. Found this site after hanging around a Reddit subthread and realized someone else reported this in NORTH chapel hill same day same time- I was south of chapel hill but I (and my friend) can corroborate this sighting. My phone was almost dead and it happened so quickly while driving I couldn’t get a video or pic.

I would also love to know if anyone else saw this, or a light array like this elsewhere and what the prevailing theories are on it!.

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I've been watching documentaries on UFOs and I had a weird thought to request a visit. My dog started barking unexpectedly and I didn't know why. I went to sleep and woke up to this on my window.

It looks like something pressing a face against the window. It wasn't me and the pressing is on the outside of the window.

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Disc or cylindrical craft moving at very high speed On June 29, 2015, about 10 miles outside of Chapel Hill, NC, travelling south towards Charlotte, NC, I witnessed an object that looked very much like a disc or possibly cylindrical craft. It was apparently a considerable distance away, so it was difficult to ascertain whether it was truly a disc, or whether it was a cylinder; however, it appeared to have no wings and did not have any type of propulsion mechanism that could be seen. It was clearly a silver or gray color.

I cannot provide an accurate distance of the object from my vantage point, but it seemed to be somewhat equidistant between the locations of frequently sighted high-flying commercial jets and lower flying, small, private airplanes. I realize this estimate is not very helpful, but it was just too difficult to give a good estimate of distance. Although based on the uncertainty introduced by the distance of the craft from my vantage point, one could perhaps attempt to explain it away as some type of mundane craft; however, it was the observations regarding the apparent shape, coupled with the speed of the object that made me decide to report it.

The speed truly caught my attention. I originally sighted the craft directly ahead of my vantage point looking south and at about 30deg up from the horizon against a clear blue sky. From the time I spotted the object until it moved across the south to western span of the sky to below the tree line on the western horizon, only about 4-5 seconds passed, maybe a little less.

As I watched it move, it was clearly far faster crossing the sky than the apparent movement of a high-flying commercial jet (which appears to move very slowly as most anyone knows who has seen a high-flying jet followed by its contrail). Likewise, it was much, much faster than the apparent speed of low flying, small, private planes. It appeared to move across that expanse of the sky even faster than the speed of some lower-flying military jets that I have seen in the past.

From the time I saw it until I could get my daughter's attention to try to look at it, the object was already out of sight behind the trees on the western horizon. If the distance I had estimated was accurate, then this craft was moving at an extremely high speed. It was truly moving faster than any conventional aircraft that I have seen.

So, in summary, it was not only the apparent disc or cylindrical shape of the craft that caught my attention, but also the speed that made me think it was something truly unusual. Although I was unable to take a photograph, it looked very much like the object in the photo of the High Plains, Oregon, sighting of June 14, 2015, at 1230hrs (Pacific), which is shown on the NUFORC website (although the object I saw was quite a bit more distant and probably a third of the apparent size as seen from my vantage point). Furthermore, I was in a car when the sighting took place, so I cannot make any comment about the possible sound of the craft.

((ADDENDUM #1 FROM WITNESS)) Dear Mr. Davenport, Thank you for your interest. Your work on the NUFORC site is admirable.

First, the size, as compared to the moon at that same location (on a hypothetical full-moon night), was estimated to be about 1/10th the size of a full moon (at a 30-35 degree location and not exaggerated by atmospheric effects). Again, I estimate this based on envisioning a cylinder/disc sitting over a full-moon and deducing the amount of the moon covered. The following is my best estimate regarding movement: As I stated, the object originally appeared to be about 30-35 degrees above the horizon, directly in front of me.

When it went out of sight about 4-5 sec later, it was hidden because of the interference of the tops of trees on the western horizon. Those tree tops were approximately 10 degrees from the horizon. So, I suppose one could say the object traversed an expanse from 30 degreess to 10 degrees in about 5 seconds.

Does this help answer your question? If you need more detail, let me know, and I'll do the best I can. Remember, I have a chemistry background, not physics. Ha! I will leave the heavy lifting to you.

And to the last point - no, my daughter was never able to see the object. It simply moved too quickly. Best regards, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM #1)) ((ADDENDUM #2)) Dear Mr.

Davenport, I hope my contacting you so soon after my response to your inquiry about my initial UFO report does not damage my credibility as a witness; however, the more I think about my response, I believe I have let that Oregon photo on your site cloud my objectivity. I simply do not believe the object I saw was as large as 1/10 of the full moon. Please pardon my excitement and erroneous description in response to your question.

To explain, I responded by saying that I thought the object I saw was 1/10th the size of a full moon, but the more I consider it, I believe this quick response is not accurate. Considering my difficulty in judging the shape of the craft (disc vs cylinder) leads me back to a more reasonable estimate of size as 1/20th the size of a full moon. I feel that this is a far more accurate reflection of what I observed.

The object was quite small, but still clearly a disc or cylinder shape and apparently not a plane or commercial jet due to its speed. It becomes clear to me, as I honestly endeavor to provide accurate information, how difficult it is to obtain reliable witness testimony, especially when there is only one witness. I so wish that my daughter had also observed the object, so that I would have some confirmation of my perceptions.

Please consider this updated information as an addendum to my initial report. Best regards, ((END ADDENDUM #2)) ((BEGIN ADDENDUM #3)) Dear Mr. Davenport, I recently reported a sighting (Chapel Hill, NC on June 29) and was perusing the NUFORC database to see if any other similar reports had been made on that day.

I noticed at the bottom of my report entry there was a NUFORC note saying that we had spoken by phone and that I describe myself as an aviation expert. That information is incorrect. I am writing simply to inform you that I believe you are mistaken and possibly have me confused with someone else.

We never spoke by phone, and I am a chemist and polymer/chemical patent research professional - nothing to do with aviation. I assume you might want to correct this data entry for the integrity of the report. Thanks for all of your great work.

Best regards, ((END ADDENDUM #3)) ((NUFORC Note #2--The witness's third statement is correct, and the error was ours! We confused this report with another witness. We have not spoken via telephone with the witness who submitted this report. We apologize for the error.

We leave our original NUFORC Note in place below, so that the reader may understand the cause of the witness's 3rd Addendum above. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness describes himself as a former specialist in aviation. We spoke via telephone with him, and we found him to be quite objective in his description of the sighting.

We suspect that he is an excellent, and highly reliable, witness. PD)).

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Witnessed a greenish - blue fire ball streak low, fast, overhead in the sky at 10:01 pm Monday August 4th 2014. I was out with my dog when I saw it behind the Chatham County, Chapel Hill, NC, Walmart near the intersection of U.S.

15-501 Hwy and Smith level Rd in Chapel Hill, NC. The UFO seemed to blink out and only lasted a few seconds. It's trajectory seemed to be moving at a fast slightly downward angle, as if it was losing altitude.

It appeared to be very large and was moving very fast at a low altitude. It was completely silent and moving faster than a military attack jet.

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Dark Triangle with red lights flying close to ground. Made abrupt turn. Made no sound.

While working patrol, checking stores after hours, I observed a triangular shaped aircraft operating north to south. The aircraft made an abrupt left turn and traveled east, which was within 1/4 mile or so from my location. The aircraft was less than 1000 feet off the ground also.

The aircraft was very dark with minimal lighting. It had three very dimly lit red lights on each corner, in what most would consider a triangle. The aircraft's lights never blinked, just remained dimly lit.

As the aircraft passed in front of me, it made zero sound. I figured it was a stealth fighter or bomber. I briefly spoke to a few people from work.

One stated it could have been a drone. I did call the sighting in by phone and it's recorded at our 911 center. I'm not one to believe in Alien spacecraft .

This made the hair on my neck stand up and I feel it's worth sharing. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD)).

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3 white lights in a triangle formation pointing down with a green light below the white lights. No strobes just solid lights. At approximately 12:15-12:20am I witnessed 3 white lights in a tight triangle formation pointing down.

Below the lights there was a smaller solid green light. There was a slight gap between the white lights and the green. This was on NC HWY 54 westbound just after exiting from I-40 on the Durham-Chapel Hill line.

The object descended very smoothly without any lateral movement from an approximate altitude of 1000 ft. or so (rough estimation). I lost sight of it once it became obstructed by trees.

As it did so it became one solid white light. The sighting lasted just under a minute. The object appeared to be about a mile to my southeast.

At the time of the sighting there was a conventional smaller airplane several thousand feet up to the west-southwest of the object. I am a meteorologist and storm spotter so I am quite familiar with sky observation and explainable phenomena. This was clearly an object under some form of intelligent control and not weather related.

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Orange fireball appeared briefly in the sky and passed over me. I was outside and suddenly an orange fireball appeared in the sky. It passed over me and disappeared.

It definitely wasn't any sort of shooting star.

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Bright white light flashing repeatedly in the same area of the sky for thirty to forty minutes. I was standing outside with my friend having a cigarette smoke at around midnight. We were standing outside of our dorm with a clear view of the sky.

We saw something which we thought was shining in the sky and looked to be just a shooting star or something. After about half way through our cigarette we noticed it again and that it was bigger and brighter then it was a few moments ago when we first lit our cigarette. It was very bright at this point, unfortunately i could not tell how far it was.

I started to look closer and the tip of the cone shaped object was flashing repeatedly about every half second. We watched it for about twenty to thirty minutes in astonishment thinking we just saw an actual UFO. Then it faded off into the distance after hovering for about thirty to forty minutes.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date is approximate. PD)).

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Bright descending burst of light. I was standing by a creek in the woods south of my apartment complex. I was alternating looking at the stars and at the canopy of trees across the creek bank.

I was looking at the sky and saw a brilliant blue/white flash traveling at a rapid rate of descent in the SSE section of the sky. It flew in a straight line with no noise and the light remained the same brightness, velocity, and direction throughout the flight. The entire incident took less than 2 seconds.

It did not seem like any meteorite that I had ever seen before.

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Flying Triangle Around 7 PM est on January 18, 2008 I witnessed a large triangular shaped object on Estes Drive in Chapel Hill, NC. I was driving at 35 mph and spotted a large object with a bright white light surrounded by two larger red lights hovering just above the treetops surrounding Estes Drive Elementary School. It was approximately 200-250 ft.

in the air. There is a small airport close by, but this was not a plane. The object was moving extremely slowly in a straight line.

It made no sound, and the lights were steady, and did not blink. As it's a two lane road and I had traffic approaching and traffic coming up behind me I could not stop or turn around to get a closer look. When I reached the end of Estes Drive, at the corner of Estes and East Franklin (approx 1/4 mile from the sighting) I could see a pair of lights in the Southern sky splitting apart, one went to the left (the East) while the other rose to the Northwest.

The Northwesterly object continued rising and then switched course to the East. I'm providing a google map link to the location of the sighting http://maps.google.

com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=35.941254,-79.044614&spn=0.

014662,0.030899&t=h&z=15&om=1&msid=115158618809161062506.000443ccc63531c403d95.

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low quick moving light I saw a unusually bright light in the sky for a second time in a few days. The lights were changing color and I assumed it was the twinkling of a star. I was pointing it out to a friend I was giving a ride.

He followed the light and pointed at its direction. While stopped at a traffic light I looked over and a small orb of light raced from about the top of the tree line across the sky parallel to the ground. Its speed was far greater than a plane or helicopter and it's size was quite small.

It moved faster than even a firework and left no trail. The ball of light looked similar to video of ball lightning that I have seen but no clouds were present and it was really right at the top of the tree line. It's movement was similar to that of a shooting star but it was so close to the ground and it's trajectory was completely unlike any of the many meteors i have observed.

The main light I had been watching continued to change colors around a main white but UNUSUALLY bright light. I have observed in my area and around in other research I have attempted that these unusual lights appear in alignment with existing heveanly bodies, but they look quite different than the bodies they are alligned with. Meaning that you notice a light that does not look like a star and displays properties that are quite different than a star, Venus or Mars but occur in identical places.

The regular bodies can be seen later in the position of the unusual object, light, or occurance, but appear to have little in common with the occurance. Draw from this what you will but i feel that this could possibly be more than just a coincidence and not necesarily difficult to control.

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Strange lights sitting on ground seen behind house As I was getting ready to go to bed, I went to my 3rd floor balcony to smoke and noticed what appeared to be a small fire. The property behind my house is private, and gated so that no cars can enter. Further, I am sure that no one should be there at all.

I was concerned why it was there and that if it was a fire I should call for help. After watching for about 5 minutes I realized that it had not grown larger and appeared to have both red and white lights that seemed to be flickering. I woke my husband still thinking maybe it was a large electrical item of some sort.

He said he thought it was too large and also saw that it had both red and white lights. After watching this light for about 30minutes, I got pretty scared and decided to turn off all of our house lights and check our doors. After going downstairs, I realized that I could still see it from my downstairs windows and realized it was too large to be a gadget of a camper or homeless person.

At this point my two sons and a house guest tried to get a better look from my deck. We went outside and used binoculars. Speaking for myself I can say that what I saw seemed to have a pattern of lights.

Three very faint white lights on top, one large bright one in the center and a number of white and red ones below that that seemed to be moving and alternating colors. The exact shape of the thing I can not say. I could only see the lights.

My husband whistled out very loudly and nothing changed at all. My house guest taped the lights with his video camera. Eventually, too frustrated and tired I decided to go to bed.

I went to bed at 2am. I woke at 6am and as usual there were deer grazing in the meadow and I could see no evidence of anything out of the ordinary. Today, my husband and I decided to go back there to see if we could find evidence of a camper or some other explanation.

What we found was no reasonable way to explain it. I had originally speculated that the only thing I could think of with that pattern of lights would be a tractor. The area is very wet, as it is a recently drained pond and there was not only no way for a tractor to get into the area but no tracks as well.

What we did find was a large round indentation with deeper indentations within it about every foot or so and one indentation in the center. Some of the weeds were dried and brittle (dead) and bent to one side behind where the object had been. I am also certain now too that it was too large to be something someone could have walked into the area with.

There was no sound at all as we witnessed the lights and the bugs, frogs and whatnots were all as usual. I can say for sure that I will be watching tonight. I do not wish to be interviewed or my name identified but would like to know if anything like this has been reported previously.

((NUFORC Note: We spoke with this witness, and she seemed quite sincere and credible to us. We have urged her to obtain photos of the indentation, and to have the other two witnesses submit reports, too. We hope to obtain a copy of the video.

PD)).

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Strange objects near Research Triangle Park, NC It was about 9pm when my boyfriend and I (both students at a local university) were driving home from the grocery store. To the right of the car, we both noticed something strange in the sky; three triangular objects. What drew our attention to them was the fact that there seemed to be a center object (larger than the others) hovering, while the 2 objects surrounding it moved rapidly from either side of it.

These objects had lights at all 3 corners (two red, one blue) and a larger white light in the center. What was so amazing about these objects was their ability to hover, as well as their incredible speed. We stopped and got out of our car to get a better look, but within about 5-10min they were gone.

A little later in the evening, closer to 10pm, we went out again to see if we could spot these objects. As we drove on the interstate closer to Raleigh, they appeared again. It seemed to me that we saw between 3-5 of these at various locations.

Again, we got out of the car (with camera in hand) and one of the objects flew fairly close to us to allow a better look. This object appeared to be similar to the center object we had seen earlier. Also triangular, it appeared to have two very bright white lights at the top-most point, with red lights on the bottom two.

In the center was again a larger white light, and right above these were two strange markings of white light (resembeling .

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Large disc shaped UFO just over our house, no sound. 3 red lights in a triangle underneath. It was huge.

It was midnight and me and my sis were watching tv. As i got up to get a drink I noticed a light in the sky as i stepped closer to the window i noticed 3 red lights in a triangle and as my eyes ajusted I began to see the outline of the object, a circle. Me and my sis hollered at my brother to come see the UFO.

We opened the sliding glass door to the right to go out to listen. There was no sound. The object was right above our trees in the front yard.

We expect the object was very close to the size of a football field. It slowly moved away revealing it was a disc shaped UFO with a line of lights around the whole ship. I would guess it was moving about 1-5 mph.

Our parents were sleeping at the time by the time we woke them it was so far away it could have been a airplane to them. But for me and my siblings it was the closest encounter we have ever had. I will always look to the sky.

hoping this time i have a camera. Note: This happened sometime in the summer of 96. Not sure of the month or day.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD)).