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Greensboro, North Carolina UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 110 UFO sighting reports in Greensboro, North Carolina to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (18 reports, 16.36% of total).
- January is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (14 reports, 12.73% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (20 reports, 18.18% of total).
- 2014 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (8 reports, 7.27% of total).
- 07/04/15 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 4.55% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (48 reports, 43.64% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Greensboro, North Carolina
These Greensboro, 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 captured Orbs flying over most of the times I look, on clear mornings between 4:30 and 6:30 am I started seeing Orbs flying over my house a couple years ago, when I started looking up. Letting my eyes adjust. I get up ealry, and have decided to go and I look for 10 minutes or so, and if i don’t see something I go inside.
On clear mornings, I will look a couple times. I have dozens of recordings over this period of UAP type objects, I describe as Orbs. This Video is one of, if not the, Best I have captured.
Low, steady. Can zoom in on my video to see it change shapes and colors. It is not a plane because I have captured those too.
At the end of the video, a Plane is passing behind it for comparison. I have lived here since 1999.
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AM sighting of a bright intense light that was hovering over tree line and a PM sighting with 2 crafts of the same "look". Around 7AM on Dec 13th, I was on the front porch of my home and saw an extremely intense light above the tree line on the hole of the golf course that my house is situated on. The trees are roughly 500-750 ft from my front porch viewpoint.
It was hovering left and right with periods of standstill. It was difficult for me to gauge the elevation of the object but it appeared lower than a plane in the sky at the time. Also of note is that there were no visible stars in that field of view, or in my periphery.
The only stars faintly visible were directly above my head. With regard to directional positioning, it was just a tad west of the rising sun, but not by much, and was lower than the sun in my field of vision. It caught my eye as it was so intensely bright.
It was very mesmerizing. And as it got my attention, I noticed it was periodically emitting a blue light, almost like a beam but more of a tentacle appearance than a typical “linear” laser we think of. The object was relatively stable and hard to get an idea of the exact shape because the light was so bright.
However, it looked almost like a pyramid in nature. But would hover around in a small vicinity without much perceived pattern, at least to my eye. I wanted to get a picture but my phone was dead.
As I was in awe, a member of the household was leaving for work and saw the same thing. She agreed it was strange but had to leave for work. The object was gone when I came back outside with a family member’s charged phone, within 2 mins of me going inside to retrieve the phone.
I probably would have dismissed this or even forgotten about the morning event but late that evening around midnight, I was called outside by a family member who claimed they saw an “orb.” Remembering the event from 18 hrs ago, I came outside and saw the same thing I did in the morning along with lots of animal sounds, like they were disturbed. This time, it was much closer to my house - it was basically above my yard and hovering around the ¾ acre that we live on from above.
This time, the pyramid structure was a bit more defined and the light was more of a gold color than the intense bright light I saw in the same morning. It would stay in one place for a few minutes and then hover around aimlessly. In addition to blue lights, this one also emitted red and green lights, both in a tentacle fashion.
The majority of the mass of the object would appear in a more rounded muted orange color when the projections were not coming from it. There were moments when it appeared to be transitioning between the two states (pyramid/tentacle structure and orb structure). It also seemed to have a noticeable blackness around it, almost like a cloud when I the pyramid form.
About 30 minutes later, 2 family members are watching this with me and another identical object appears on the other side of the house. It seemed to be the same type of object. These things hovered around for about 3 hrs and slowly moved from above our yard to the west.
I still had a visual on one from my window when I came to bed and got a video of it jetting away. After many many tries of trying to focus I finally did, right in time for it to be caught ZOOMING away!!! I was in total disbelief but this is the best evidence I have. From what I can see in the video, it moved away so fast that it left a blur with the video recording at 60fps.
It went from basically standstill to these speeds. Of note, a family member has claimed he has seen similar things and many orbs on this property but I gave it no attention due to “stigma.” I now believe every word he has said.
Now this is speculation but it felt like these things knew they were being watched, there was even a moment when it was behind trees when I was trying to record it and it seemed to move to areas that had optimal tree cover. Since I couldn't get a good in-focus picture, I sketched what I saw to the best of my ability. (the pyramid form) and the video shows the orb form zooming away.
The 2 most anomalous things I recall - 1) the speed of which this thing took off from a complete standstill 2) I lost sight one of the objects when viewing it from my room window only to find it, and when I did, this time it appeared to be casting a straight blue beam down to the ground. I did not have view of the ground beneath however the beam was linear this time, casting much further from the object than the wavy lights in the picture. It also appeared to be in orb form during this behavior.
The "tentacle" lights only appeared when it was in pyramid form.
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Rotating, purple lights that split apart, fly separate directions & spark electricity between them once separated. Orbs change colors On Thursday, November 6th, 2023, I was asleep around 11:00 pm when I was awakened, unknown if this event is what woke me up. Because I was awakened, I went to the restroom, which is connected to my bedroom.
The toilet in the bathroom has a window that is able to see an open field, my driveway, the main road, the house next door, and the construction site that is in front of my house. While using the restroom, I noticed what I thought to be movement at the construction site, which is lit up by a pole light. Because my phone camera is better than my eyes, I went to go get my phone that was sitting beside my bed.
I came back into the toilet area and started recording the construction area in case there was actually something there that I couldn’t see or in case there was some vandalism going on, which I would check with the site manager in the morning. (Video #1 - 6:21 minutes). Meanwhile, on the northern, left side of my bathroom window these purple orb lights started going off and rotating in a circular motion.
There were 3-4 in a cluster, plus 1 in the sky. These purple lights would actually black out and disappear, but then when they would reappear, there would be a fewer number of them, and they would be split apart and closer to my camera. By the time the video is over, you can see these purple, orb-like lights actually shooting electricity between them, almost like sharing energy in order to maintain its presence.
Once the lights have narrowed down to only two existing lights, you can see that the purple lights turn to white and then there is a single red light. Eventually, you can see that these lights disappear altogether into the pitch blackness of the night into the same direction that they came from. (Video #2 - 10:19).
I have contacted the local police department and the local FAA office, which tell me that these two videos should be reported to you in particular because they are unaware of any device that matches this criteria. They have these videos sent to them through email.
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White Cigar Shaped Craft I was in an American Airlines Boeing 737 - just left Charlotte NC and weren't quite at cruising altitude (maybe 10 minutes into the flight) and saw a cigar shaped craft going SUPER fast below us. Maybe 10-20 seconds of flight. It did NOT look like a plane and it was going so fast I can't imagine it was another plane.
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It was hovering in Greensboro Wendover west exit It was just sitting there. I was coming off of 840 on 240 taking the wendover west exit.
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Cigar-Shaped UFO Vanished When exiting Keeley Road facing Rankin Mill Road (facing the grave yard which is in front of the landfill dirt mound area). I saw a long object hovering low in the sky over the landfill area. At first I wondered if maybe it was a very high crane, with maybe a long piece of steel attached.
But, then I noticed that it was slowly moving. The closer it got to my view, I noticed that it was cigar-shaped. It was not inflated in appearance like a blimp.
It was narrow. It had numerous lights on the side of it. It was extremely long and difficult for me to estimate the length.
There were no other visible aircrafts in the sky. I did not have on the radio or CD player. It was quiet and I did not hear a sound from the object.
I turned my lights off and on again multiple times as I tried to get a clear view of it. I did not want my lights to interfere with my view of the object. As it got closer to my car, I continued to watch it.
All of a sudden, It began to fade, as to vanish. As the object was approaching overhead right in front of my car, I sensed that the object was all of a sudden no longer bright and clear like it was just moments (seconds) ago before, which was very weird and strange. As a natural instinct, I began to rub my eyes in an attempt to focus, as I am a contact lenses wearer.
Suddenly, the object that was slowly fading, vanished. I looked through my front windshield and my sunroof and it was gone. I am estimating that I watched the object for 10 to 15 minutes before it vanished.
I then began to drive. I turned right on Rankin Mill Road. I turned right on Camp Burton Road.
I made a 3 point turn in order to look back towards the Keeley Road area in an attempt to see the object. The night sky was clear and there was no visible object in the sky. I then, positioned my car to drive back towards Rankin Mill Road.
I turned left on to Rankin Mill Road and drove back towards Keeley Road, while looking up into the night sky in an attempt to see the object. There was no visible object in the sky. The object had completely vanished.
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Cluster of potential UFOs In the middle of the day (sparse cloud coverage but otherwise bright, blue sky) my friend and I were down at the park near my house and we were just looking at the clouds and we see this collection of about 8/9 tiny dots in the sky. They were too small to capture on camera and we didn’t have a telescope or binoculars. They were above cloud level and sort of bright/reflective and a couple seemed to have red lights on the bottom.
There were two more close by but not part of the cluster. As we watched them the would move closer together and then spread out again and at one point formed a triangle formation (like birds or airplanes might). They eventually moved out of sight behind the clouds and we didn’t see them any more.
The whole event lasted about 30 minutes. Afterwards we saw a couple planes fly past that were much, much closer to earth.
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Close encounter/ Abduction in North Carolina bedroom. This is not A UFO sighting. This is an abduction/ physical encounter.
On the night of August 1st/ early morning of August 2nd I believe I was visited by extraterrestrial being(s) in my apartment bedroom. I have experienced sleep paralysis numerous times in my life and this was far from it. I slept with my lamp on.
I awoke to looking at my lamp in my bedroom which was closest to my bedroom door. I was unable to move and I was able to see white medical tubes all over my body similar to an IV. There were atleast 2 people or entities walking around the left of me out of my view.
I felt as if someone took a needle and put it in my arm and gave me something that paralyzed me. But I was awake to the point where I could see and hear my entire bedroom. It also felt as if something was draining blood/ energy from my body and dehydrating me.
I moaned and moaned and was unable to turn my head but I was focused on my lamp and I could see and hear people moving in my bedr! oom closest to the wall where I could not turn my head. It was if I was raised or proped up off of the bed because I was able to hear and see my phone ringing. It was my ex girlfriend calling.
I started to cry because I felt I was going to be killed or drained completely of blood or whatever was happening to me and that I would not be able to make a phone call or call out for help. I was able to make eye contact with my phone and see that she was calling, it was 4am which is the time that she wakes up and goes to work. I was able to slightly turn my head towards what was moving in my room but not enough but I could still hear my phone ringing and vibrating.
I could still see white IV like tubes all over my body and it was painful. I could not stop moaning from the pain but did not have enough strength to scream. I would blink ever so often as it felt like something was physically sucking liquid out of my body through these tubes and I felt the weakest I have ever felt in my! life.
I could hear an air sucking noise similar to a tire def! lated in my ear which would last for 3 or 4 seconds at a time. I had decided to try and struggle as much as I could, I felt that I was going to die if I did not get to my phone or call out for help. I was awake as I am now but was physically unable to move and I could feel see and hear everything around me.
This lasted close to 15 minutes.I remember not being able to stop moaning from how much pain and dehydration I was feeling. I could still feel rustling and walking all around my bedroom which scared me the most because I could not do anything about it but all I could see was dark shadows on the wall from someone moving in my bedroom but my eyes were still able to see the lamp.
I took a deep breath and blinked and all of the tubes were off of my body. I was able to move. I sat up and grabbed my phone and saw that my ex gf called and I decided not to call her back till the morning.
I was exhausted my body was dehydrated as if I did not drink water for a week. It hurt. My arm had 2 ! small scab/prick marks as if I was poked with a 2 pronged small needle.
I was not nervous or scared anymore. It did not process to me what happened until the next morning when I called my ex gf back and talked about it. I have never experienced anything like this, I do not want an explanation.
I just wanted to share an experience which happened to me and I truly believe that I was visited in my apartment bedroom in Greensboro NC. I did not witness any bright lights or see a UFO. I'm typing this on August 13th, and still have the scars and scabs on my arm.
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standing on my front porch looking west I saw something flashing in the sky so I came in to get my binoculars. it was multicolored like a strand of Christmas lights. red, blue, green, yellow.
it was not moving up or down or right to left. it stayed in one spot until it dropped below the horizon. (the tree tops) it was very clear and the colors where vivid exactly like Christmas lights.
It was pretty. The way it was moving was like if your slinging a rope. The string never broke.
It would go fast and then tighten to a short length. When it was going faster it would get a little bit longer. the man from the center said to go back out tomorrow at the same time to see if I see it again.
it was not a ship. it was a colored string. I watched it for a solid 15 minutes.
I called the local police to report it.
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23 unidentified flying objects in single file formation, flying at a high rate of speed. Observed 23-25 airborne objects flying approximately at 25,000 feet in single file formation at a high rate of speed in a SSE direction. Observable for about 5 minutes.
Each craft had red navigational lights at the forward tip of the aircraft. No audible engine noise. Moonlight was present against a clear dark sky.
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It was a circle like a trash can lid but bigger and had bright yellow light touching the ground.
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Nearly Invisible Chevron shaped craft silently gliding south with leading edge illuminated by moonlight. I was talking to another Security Guard from a different company about the astronomical objects in the sky. I work Property Security, he works Event Security.
I am an Amatuer Astronomer since the 1990's. We were talking about the night sky and his phone app when I noticed something moving in the sky. I could not tell what it was, in fact I could not see what it was.
BUT it was moving. It was the exact color of the night sky. The light pollution was such that I could not discern stars around the object.
The object was gliding at a very smooth, slow, straight, and silent pace. There were no lights on it at all. It was obvious, this craft did not want to be seen at all.
It was definitely stealth. and most likely cloaked. I pointed up to alert the other Security Guard.
"Can you see that?" I asked enthusiastically. He noticed it also. We could see something that could not be seen.
What could be seen was a thin chevron shaped cloud illuminated by moonlight along the leading edge of the craft. The other guard thought looked like a line (180 degrees), whereas I thought it had a slight bend to it similar to a boomerang (Perhaps 170 degrees). I saw the object for almost 40 seconds before it disappeared into the skyglow of the city south of us, Greensboro.
He probably saw it for about 25 seconds. The other Guard stated it best. "It had no mass.
" We saw it, though it couldn't be seen. I think technically, what we actually saw was the environment being impacted by the objects' presence. The Event being hosted was for World Translators.
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Oval shaped glowing white object leaves a trail of 'smoke' in the sky then vanishes . I observed one oval shaped craft heading easterly in the sky. At first it appeared to be a jet of some sort but it was moving sporadically in the sky in a continued forward motion (up and down).
It let behind a trail of ‘smoke’. At this point I was thinking it was some sort of meteorite or maybe a fireball. The color was white.
As soon as I came to this conclusion is when the object stopped in the sky and it appeared to have some sort of white haze, almost like a fog develop around it. As soon as this happened the trail of ‘smoke’ ceased to be produced. The object grew brighter and moved ahead then absolutely just vanished.
I was able to record about 2 ½ minutes from my cell phone. The initial event that caught my attention was not recorded because I was really dumbfounded by what I was looking at in the sky. As soon as the object started to disappear is when I started recording so the video only shows the faint object and the trail of ‘smoke’ which shows the trajectory of the objects movement.
I took one still shot when I arrived to work that only showed what was left over from the ‘smoke’ the object produced. It was oval in shape and had a bright white glow. I could see no details other than the shape and the glow.
Its shape was very distinct and it did not have wings from what I could tell. No blinking lights or anything of the sort that would make it identifiable as a jet or a helicopter. The sky was clear and it was in fact dark just before sunrise.
I will email the photo and video evidence.
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Objects flying equal distance apart in formation together.
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A bright sparkling slow moving light. It was fluctuating in brightness. Then it immediately vanished.
It was a clear sky, no clouds to disappear behind. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no little contact information. PD)).
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Fast, silent Mystery Craft. I went for a walk the night I witnessed this- it was the second time I have seen this thing. It's large.
It's SILENT. And it moves like a greased rocket engine sometimes. This thing seems to have a table shape to it, or it's a large helicopter shaped thing.
Where there is a red light in the video, the time I saw it before- there was a bright blue light dead center of the dark shape in the middle. There are 4 lights on the.legs.
It gives off the impression of a flying coffee table. Did I mention it is SILENT. I have footage of it (it is crummy, but, it's footage).
You can hear the traffic down past the TV tower, you might be able to hear the cessna flying right over my head. You can really hear me snarl at the damn focus. You'd think something as big as it is, flying at the speed it seems to be going, would make some noise.
Nope. The Cessna droning along was the only noise I heard, and that was weak. It's Unidentified (help!), it's Flying, and it's an Object.
I am so on the fence as to what it is, my pants have creases. If it made noise- helicopter. Both times, with the second time of me being dramatically closer, and no noise.
I have very, very good hearing. I listened for all I was worth when I realized how quiet it was- Nada. I think it disturbed the air as it went by.
If this is some secret military thing, whoever is flying it should be shot. I'm waiting for one of these hotshots to hit the stupid TV tower. They get THAT CLOSE.
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Saw exact same strange craft again a week later at the same spot. It was on approach to GSO RW 32 On November 2018 I witnessed the second observation of a craft on approach to GSO/ RW 32 exactly a week later. I was on the off ramp getting onto I-840 and with disbelief I saw the same craft.
The Craft had a white and Red Identification this time with no blinking NAV lights that should be required in class B airspace. It went over my car at basically the exact spot I had witness the first encounter. It had an invisible Fuselage that would reflect light in a strange pattern.
I was the only car on the highway so my lights couldn’t have had that reaction to it. It was about 300 feet again over my car and I stopped to see the craft. This time it turned on 3 white lights across the middle and winged section in a horizontal pattern.
They were not bright enough to be landing lights and they were facing the wrong diction for landing. The craft turned to what appeared to be 45 degree angle just feet from landing and then disappeared. I called the tower and! again and of course… no knowledge of a landing.
I told him about another time that I called in to report the same craft and he told me it could have been an airplane that had NAV light problems. Well, I know I witnessed the same craft exactly one week apart at the same moment and that explanation doesn’t work.
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Strange craft on approach with improper NAV lights that disappeared in class B airspace In November 2018 about 6:30 at night I witnessed a craft on approach into GSO airport RW 32 on my way home from work on the 840 loop exit off of I40. The craft caught my attention because of the lack of navigation lights in class B airspace. The only lights visible were two red lights one on top of the other.
The craft flew over my head as I was driving. I rolled down my window and I heard no sound. The craft was about 300 feet above and as it was moving it would reflect as if light was being shined on the bottom portion but it was a pattern.
It did seem to have wings but the under fuselage seemed to be almost invisible except for the strange reflection. I kept driving and looking for it to land but it veered off over West Market Street and disappeared. I immediately called the Tower to ask what the craft was and the staff member I spoke with said they had just changed shifts and he had no knowledge that a landing happened.
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Circular shape with purple hued, triangular blinking light A huge circle was present in the sky with a triangular blinking light. The light was smooth in fading and reappearing with about two seconds in between blinking on and blinking off. The light was close to a purple hue.
I walked about a mile and the UFO was present the entire time. The shape was a bit hard to make out because it was a break in the clouds, but the ship was low enough in the sky to make out the circular shape. The blinking light was perfectly visible.
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Saw a very bright light-too bright to be a Star hovering in one place underneath where the moon was for a couple minutes. When i looked closer, it looked like there were more smaller lights close around it. The light started to fade a dull orange and then it disappeared.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
Greensboro, 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 | 18 reported sightings | 16.36% of all reports |
Unknown | 11 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Sphere | 10 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Oval | 10 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Circle | 9 reported sightings | 8.18% of all reports |
Disk | 8 reported sightings | 7.27% of all reports |
Cigar | 7 reported sightings | 6.36% of all reports |
Other | 6 reported sightings | 5.45% of all reports |
Fireball | 6 reported sightings | 5.45% of all reports |
Triangle | 5 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Chevron | 3 reported sightings | 2.73% of all reports |
Teardrop | 3 reported sightings | 2.73% of all reports |
Cylinder | 3 reported sightings | 2.73% of all reports |
Orb | 3 reported sightings | 2.73% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.91% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 0.91% of all reports |
Greensboro, 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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January | 14 reported sightings | 12.73% of all reports |
June | 13 reported sightings | 11.82% of all reports |
October | 13 reported sightings | 11.82% of all reports |
July | 12 reported sightings | 10.91% of all reports |
August | 9 reported sightings | 8.18% of all reports |
November | 9 reported sightings | 8.18% of all reports |
December | 9 reported sightings | 8.18% of all reports |
April | 7 reported sightings | 6.36% of all reports |
March | 7 reported sightings | 6.36% of all reports |
September | 7 reported sightings | 6.36% of all reports |
May | 4 reported sightings | 3.64% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
Greensboro, 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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Friday | 20 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Saturday | 20 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Sunday | 19 reported sightings | 17.27% of all reports |
Monday | 15 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
Wednesday | 13 reported sightings | 11.82% of all reports |
Thursday | 11 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Tuesday | 8 reported sightings | 7.27% of all reports |
Greensboro, 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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07/04/15 | 5 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
01/15/10 | 2 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
04/08/05 | 1 reported sightings | 0.91% of all reports |
10/16/11 | 1 reported sightings | 0.91% of all reports |
04/18/19 | 1 reported sightings | 0.91% of all reports |
Greensboro, 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 | 48 reported sightings | 43.64% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 17 reported sightings | 15.45% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 14 reported sightings | 12.73% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 12 reported sightings | 10.91% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 10 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 5 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Greensboro, North Carolina
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