All Reported UFO Sightings in Clayton, North Carolina

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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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It was flying low and moving fast without a sound It was close to 5:00a.m. and I went to the store just about 5 miles from where I live south on US70, I got to the store at 5:00a.

m., I got what I needed then I walked back to my car got in and started to drive, I was going North to get back home on US70 the time was now 5:15a.m.

and something told me to glance over my left shoulder, I looked and thêre it was l, a bright light flying fast and flying low, my first thought was this is flying too low to be a plane but I said nevermind and kept driving, I finally get to a point where I could turn left off of US70 so I did, soon as I turned the light turned to the left with me. I told myself ok I didn't just see that I must be tired and seeing things so I kept driving, on my left hand side is Clayton high school but now the light is on my right hand side and seems to be getting loét, I make it to a stop sign on main street and I make a right turn, the light turns to the right with me, At this point I'm starting to think I'm going crazy cause I know nothing of this world can do that so I tell myself jokingly I'm going to stop and if this light stops I'm getting out of hêre so I stop, The light went about 2 or 3 feet then stopped in mid Air, once I saw that I freaked out, it didn't move until I made a U-turn and started following me again, I made my way back to US70 going south and it followed me all the way back to the store I originally went to, I parked and got out and thêre it was hovering above the store but now it was higher up in the air, it was making slow movements inch by inch in all directions, People that came in and out of store I pointed it out to thêm and they all said they didn't know what it was especially cause they even pointed out the stars that were in the sky and we all agreed what we were looking at definitely wasn't a star, I took out my phone and started to film then I got back in my car and stayed in my car until 6:30a.m.

The light was still above the store, I told mýelf I'm going to drive to another store 5 miles from this one going North, I started driving and the light took off following me again slightly ahead of me until I reach the store, I got out to film it but thí time it wasn't showing on my screen, I could see it with my eyes but it wasn't showing on my screen, it's 7:00am I get back on the car and start to drive home. The light followed me until I almost got home then it vanished, My video is short but the few people I sent it to that are like me and done believe in this kind of stuff all said they can't explain what they are looking at.

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White motionless dot in a clear blue sky which disappeared and reappear two times in different locations in a linear path. I was walking my dog at approximately 11:00 am on September 2, 2023. It was a beautiful clear day.

There may have been a few wispy low level clouds that I noticed earlier during the walk but at the time of my encounter there were no visible clouds. I reached Latitude 35.655348 Longitude -78.

350902 and was climbing a small hill north of a small pond next to Triangle YMCA when I looked NNE and saw a hawk in a dive approximately 30 degrees off the horizon. Behind the hawk, I saw a small, oval, white “orb” for lack of a better description. It was slightly larger than a sesame seed held at arms length.

I wouldn’t have paid any attention to it, but the movement of the hawk caught my eye. Otherwise, I most likely would have missed this. In fact, initially I thought it was a white bird, perhaps fighting with the hawk.

I lost visual sight of the hawk because it blended in with the tree line, but the white orb sat motionless in the sky. I used to be an aviator with the US Air Force and I am used to spotting objects in the sky and familiar with their movement patterns in order to de-conflict traffic. This object was behaving abnormally due to its lack of motion in the sky but honestly, I didn’t think much of it.

I continued to walk with my dog off the leash heading north, and the object became obscured behind a tree that was close by me hindering my view. It took me 10 to 15 seconds to pass by the tree and obtain another unobscured view of the sky as a crested the small hill. Curiously I looked up for the object and saw that it was gone.

I thought that was a little strange and I proceeded to scan approximately 30° off the horizon from west to east several times looking for movement. I could see nothing, not even small aircraft which frequent the area. I took my eyes off the sky for a few seconds for whatever reason (maybe glancing at my dog or looking down to secure footing), and then looked back towards the area and was surprised to see the object had returned.

I stopped walking and decided to observe the characteristics of this object. Again, it was motionless and about a outstretched hand’s width further to the east. I noticed that the object seemed to increase and decrease in size every few seconds, making it clearly visible one moment and then harder to see the next moment.

At this point, the object really had my attention solely for the fact that this was unique. I immediately began trying to determine what I was seeing. My first assumption is that this was an aircraft on the horizon, making turns which allowed it to reflect the sun at variable brightness based on its profile in various positions, making it more visible and less visible as it maneuvered.

The problem with this assumption is that it appeared motionless in the sky for several minutes. I considered that perhaps it was moving away but that wouldn’t it explain why it appeared to be decreasing and then increasing in size from my vantage point. I considered that this might be a balloon but how could it be motionless when visible, disappear and reappear few miles from its original position and becoming motionless again? It is not my intention to speculate on this craft, but I think it’s important to let you know my mindset as I was observing this.

Had it acted like any aircraft I had seen in the past while flying, I wouldn’t have paid any attention beyond a curious glance. It was the uniqueness, and it’s characteristics of flight that caught my attention. It made no sense to me.

As I stood and watched the object, I speculated on what it could be, then I realized that my dog was off leash and wandering the field alone behind me. I turned my head to call him back to my side and as I turned back to continue observing the object, it was gone. I began meticulously scanning of the horizon for movement and remember laughing out loud at how odd this situation had become.

I didn’t observe any motion in the sky. A lot of times, when an aircraft adjusts its attitude and position, it will no longer reflect the sunlight and become less visible, but your eyes can still catch movement of the craft. There was absolutely nothing observable in the sky after it disappeared.

I hooked my dog to my leash and settled in to observe the sky for the next several minutes. I would estimate 2 to 3 minutes passed when the object came into view a third time and was another one to two hand widths across the horizon towards the east. It slowly faded into view and behaved just as it had before.

It appeared motionless but this time remained a constant size and brightness. At this point, I determined I wasn’t going to take my eyes off it except to blink. I patiently observed this object sit motionless, 30° off the horizon for about 90 seconds and then fade out of view over 3-5 seconds as if turning down a light source using a dimming switch.

I must’ve stayed in that field for another 10 minutes, scanning the horizon and looking for any movement, but saw nothing. So I resumed my walk back to my house about 15 minutes away. The only reason why I am reporting what I saw is that I have lots of experience as an aviator and this object behaved like nothing I had ever witnessed.

Had it only popped into view once and disappeared, I would’ve dismiss this as an aircraft. But to watch it sit motionlessly, disappear, move unobserved across the horizon, then reappear only to sit motionless again was very strange. I have run through this scenario several times and every logical explanation simply returns with questions on the strange flight characteristics of this object.

It most likely was an aircraft, but I just can’t explain how it behaved. There are plenty of little airfields locally and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is about hour’s drive from this area. I consider that this may be a fighter jet maneuvering on the horizon but we hear those jets all the time.

This object was absolutely silent. Another strange thing was that I had no desire to pull out my phone and record this. It’s strange to me because recording seemed to not even be an option.

It was like I didn’t even remember I had a phone on me. Maybe I was task saturated with observing this object and fleshing out what it could be?.

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Object sighted in sky relatively low, appeared to be a white bright translucent light moving from left to right.

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Ufo/lights flying in weird formation. One of the ufo's the front and rear light seemed to be a mile apart yet with precise movement. The craft was barely visible in between the lights.

The second set of lights had alot more movement east. This group had more lights but these lights had different sets within the group. The sets were moving in sequence but was all doing something different.

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Cylinder craft moving flashing lights only moving up and down Cylinder shaped craft seen flying up and down with no sound flashing red, blue and white and eventually disappeared behind the trees.

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Unusually long dark shape, moving very slow, no lights, no sound, at tree level. December 4, 2018 about 5:30 pm at dusk. Sky was orange colors from sun set.

Clouds were dark. Very pretty sunset. In my car, waiting at traffic light at highway 42 west, to turn left onto Government Road in Clayton, NC.

While waiting to turn, I was looking West. Something moving caught my attention. At the tree level, which I estimate to be around Cornwallis Road, which is West of Government Road about 1 mile away.

Something was flying low above tree level. Very long, (comparing size with distance) slender shape. No lights could be seen on shape.

Dark like the clouds; black silhouette. Could not see wings or tail of an airplane. No sound was heard.

Object was moving very slowly from south to north. I had to move with traffic, so, I made my turn. It was very unusual.

We see military large cargo planes all the time around here. They fly low, but, this was even lower.

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Orange ball of light moved slowly and then sped up without sound. I was working at my grocery store tonight and I was collecting carts outside. I look up into the sky and see what I thought was a very bright star.

It is a bright orange and a little bigger than common stars you will see. I then notice it moving slowly, there were no flashing lights and no noise coming from it, so it could not be an aircraft. There was no light streaking off of it and the speed was very slow, could not be a comet.

It began to move faster and went over store and off into the distance before I could get any photographs or video. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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The craft was about the size of a small plane, but it had no wings or rigid shape. The craft was dark in color with two large round infrared looking light in front of it (like the headlights on a car) The craft passed very slowly over us around 200 feet in the air, and it made a slight humming sound. When the craft passed over us there were no lights whatsoever to be seen under, around, or behind it.

There were just the the two round light in front. The craft had no tail.

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Triangle formation, many orbs appearing, moving, stopping then taking off or disappearing. We saw a lot of strange activity in Clayton, NC, USA during the meteor shower last night/this morning. We first saw 3 "stars" moving in formation across the sky from north to south, stopped and started to rotate and change the shape of the triangle.

We had already noted what we thought were satellites that you would normally see, but after an hour we realized we had seen over 100 "satellites" and most were moving in unison with at least one more off in the distance and converging somewhere beyond the horizon. Other "stars" or "satellites" would appear, begin to move, stop and disappear from vision. Others would line up within the triangle we first saw and then either disappear or begin to move out of the formation.

We also noticed what we first thought was a bright star over the horizon, but after it not moving for 3 hours we watched it closer and it, too, was dancing around in a somewhat static location. The craziest thing I have ever witnessed. I think we watched all this from 2:45am EST to 5:30am (EDT).

We noticed what seemed to be military aircraft occasionally flying directly below the triangle formation on 3 occasions. We also noticed what may have been the ISS pass directly below it around 3:30 a.m.

EDT. although I have not checked to see where it was at that time.

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Saw two white light 'sticks' with blue and red lights at night moving in a horizontal plane across sky with no sound being made. 3/26/2014 Over Garner/Clayton NC at around 10pm. I went to the kitchen to get a glass of water while I waited for the washer to finish the load of whites it was washing.

I looked out the window and saw what I thought was a bright star. Then it flashed bright and I thought, 'that was weird' and kept looking at it. It was long like a white stick with a blue and red light in the middle area.

About every 5 secs it would flash brighter or flicker on & off, I couldn't tell. Anyway, I figured it was eye fatigue and was either a plane or a star but then I noticed it was moving ever so slightly on a horizontal line to the right (North). I kept watching it because I figured I was tired and would figure out that it wasn't moving at all but it did and kept moving.

So I decided to step outside and have a look. First thing I noticed is how quite it was. dead silent.

There's usually the sound of traffic on Hwy 70 at the minimum or a dog barking but nope. nothing. Then I noticed a second 'star' with the exact same qualities as the first and verified the other one was still where I had last seen it so.

there were actually two ! of them. Both were silent, high up, looked identical and were moving very, very slowly in a horizontal motion heading North. I watched them for about 10 mins and then went back inside cold and alittle bit freaked out.

Not sure what they were but they definitely were not helicopters or planes as there was no sound and they were moving way too slowly. I'm a 53 yrs old Computer Scientist who works at NC State in the IT division.

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Flashing red and blue lights with white lights in center of cylinder object My daughter and I were riding in my car on Hwy 70, about to exit on Ranch Road when we saw blue and red flashing lights in sky, really low. The blue light was on the left side and the red light was on the right side. We were the only car on the highway, and I stopped to see what it was.

The object flew right over my car, and we could see white lights in the center of the object. It was very close to my car and moving very slow, and I actually thought it was going to hit my car, because it was so low. It made a really strange loud sound and went over my car.

My daughter turned to see it behind us in the sky and then it disappeared. It wasn't very big, maybe two or three times the size of my car, or that is how it appeared in the dark.

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BLACK TRIANGLE I WAS DRIVING HOME FROM WORK LAST NIGHT [11/12/20120]HEADING DOWN HWY 40 SOUTH OF RALEIGH N.C. CLOSE TO THE EXIT FOR HWY 70 AND SAW A TRIANGLE CRAFT WITH 3 LARGE WHITE LIGHTS IN THE CORNERS.

THE CRAFT WAS LOW AND MOVING SLOW. IT WAS GOING FORWARD BY THE LARGE FLAT SIDE AND NOT ONE OF THE POINTS, I THOUGHT THIS WAS ODD. IT WAS AN OMG MOMENT AND I DID NOT GET A PICTURE AS I COULD HARDLY TAKE MY EYES OFF OF IT UNTIL IT DISSAPPEARED OVER THE TREE LINE.

IT DID NOT MAKE ANY NOISE THAT I COULD HEAR AND SHOULD HAVE FALLEN FROM THE SKY AT THAT SPEED.

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DID not believe until now!!!!!!!!! ill start by saying i am one of those people who see a tv show on ufos and change the channel and say thats fake thats nerds being nerds . I also said that i cant believe in ufos until i see one. Well guess what i was in my room watching a movie at about 12:55am i decided to have a cigarette so i opened up my window and saw somthing hovering above the tree line at frist i could not take my eyes off of it i was trying to figure out what i was looking at it started to slowly move down behind the tree line untill it was gone now it was only 200 yards from my house to the tree line the carzy thing was it made no nose i said to myself people will think i am crazy if i tell them i saw a ufo so i went to get my mom thank god she saw it too i thut i was going carzy.

my mom and i wacth it for about 1min it had about fifteen lights on it in a circle pattern the lights were bright and yellow each light was as big as street light the ufo was about the size of car it loo! k so low that i think it landed and you know what that means i will not sleep tonight no i can not sleep tonight so all the people whos says thats fake wacth the skys i could happen to you like it did me.

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Power out green light power out green light. loud noise Ok so were walking down the street from the store back to the house. all of asudden the power gos out all around us theres noise like a lightsaber (no pun) and the sky turned green blue.

The power came back then it happend again. Then the power returned to full power.

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Flashing red,blue and white lights. I took my dogs out at 1:30am on July 18th, 2011. The sky was clear and I could see stars better than I have before.

I was looking at the sky and thanking God for giving us a beautiful night when I saw something in the Southwestern sky that was unusual. I initially thought it was a star but because it flashed red on one side and blue on the other with white in the background at equal intervals, I decided it wasn’t a star. It stayed in the same position for 15 minutes, was over a tree, and didn’t change course.

I came in the house, got my binoculars, and went outside and tried to make sense of the flashing pattern. It didn’t "feel" right. The red and blue lights I saw were vertical strobe lights with white lights in the background.

It looked like an intergalactic police car. I got my 11 year old son outside and he saw the same thing. It wasn’t an airplane, radio tower, helicopter, nothing of this world, it didn’t move.

We watched it for 20 minutes and I ran in the house to get my telescope. I had to unpack it (that took 10 minutes) and by the time I got it outside, clouds had covered the lights. One half hour later, the clouds moved out and the sky was clear again.

I checked the position of the moon which had moved very little and the "planet/star/lights" should have still been visible but were GONE! I looked all over the night sky and didn’t find the same lights again. I will check tonight, again! ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of a "twinkling" star, perhaps Arcturus, we suspect. PD)).

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1 light ver fast then gone I walked out to my work van and looked up at the sky, the stars were bright and then i seen one moving. I thought it was a shooting star at first but it left no trail. It was a single white light moving VERY fast.

I watched it for about 4 seconds then the light just went away. About 10 seconds later i heard an extremely loud wooshing sound. Thats the best way i can describe it.

Scared the crud outa me.

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4 egg shaped lights, one takes off very rapidly 4 egg shaped ufo's about 1,000 feet in the air. One started to move very fast while the other three stayed still. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a hoax, but we cannot be certain.

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Steady bright white ball of light moving above tree line and then disappears in cloudless sky My wife and I were on our front porch at around 11 pm on Friday, August 24th. I was laying down on the porch relaxing and she was sitting on the steps. She suddenly says, “Oh My God!” I sat up asking what she had seen.

She stated that she had never seen anything like what she had just witnessed. I asked her what she saw and she stated she witnessed a steady glowing ball of light moving away from the tree line across from our property and it suddenly disappeared. I asked her if it was a plane and she said she had never witnessed a plane disappear like that in a cloudless sky and that most planes have blinking lights.

The night was very clear with visible stars. To my dismay, I did not witness it and am only reporting what she saw. Background on my wife is that she is an intelligent individual with no claims of witnessing a UFO before, but believes they are a possibility.

She is not claiming this was an Alien craft, but she was dumbfounded as to what it could have been. Thank you!.

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witness to the too close meteor in durham, nc. : meteor or ufo? i just saw in the compuserve news that on the date above, what i thought was an abnormally close meteor was being construed by people in durham to be a ufo. i saw it in clayton, out of the corner of my eye.

i was with my brother in law in his truck, and we were at the intersection of 70E and alternate 70, and he was looking the other way because he wasn't speaking to me, because i work for him and i was 5 mins. late.i saw near the horizon, northwest, a blazing streak of green light with a white and orange fireball on it, and i made a wish on it! i looked for smoke or a vibration to say that it landed, but there was none, and i thought, that was too too close.

and i thought, what kind of damage could it have done? it's almost halloween and i know there's a possibility of this being a joke, but there was an unusually bright meteor out there at 8:45pm on monday, 20 October 2003. i'm not mistaken about the time because we were due into smithfield at 9:00 and we were running late. i do believe in life on other planets, because we can't be so egotistical to believe that we're the only ones, and i do believe that some of them have more advanced civilizations, and a few could probably stand floating around in a space station for a few hundred years.

but could they make it to earth? that's the question. i still think what i saw was a too close meteor, but i'm interested in hearing your take on it. thank you.