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Huntersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 16 UFO sighting reports in Huntersville, North Carolina to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (3 reports, 18.75% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 18.75% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (8 reports, 50.00% of total).
- 2014 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 12.50% of total).
- 12/09/06 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 6.25% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (11 reports, 68.75% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Huntersville, North Carolina
These Huntersville, 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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3 individual bright flashes of light and a separate large orb of light. I am an Airline Pilot flying a Boeing 767 from Memphis, TN to Charlotte, NC. All month the same other Pilot and I have been witnessing strange lights in the sky.
On this particular early morning, we had two more strange occurrences. The first happened at cruising altitude. I can’t recall if we were at 34000 or 36000 feet.
We were scanning the skies because we have seen numerous strange light occurrences all week. They have always been small lights appearing and disappearing that seem to be in outer space. This one was different.
Within 5-10 seconds, right as we were looking outside the left window of the aircraft cockpit, we both saw 3 separate very bright flashes of light in the same vicinity of each other that were bluish green in color. They flashed in sequential order then never reappeared. About 20 minutes later, on our descent into Charlotte, NC I saw a small white light from deep outer space that quickly flew towards my side of the cockpit on the right side until it appeared as a large white orb then vanished.
It started as a small light like a shooting star, then within 3-5 seconds it was a large orb that felt like was within 5-10 miles from us. The orb was about the size of a basketball before it vanished. I was truly in awe of what I had just witnessed.
The other Pilot did not see this orb as it happened so fast. What was really disturbing to me, is that I felt the orb could read my thoughts. Just prior to this happening, I was still trying to digest the previous 3 flashes of light on the left side of the airplane.
I distinctly remember thinking to myself without speaking, asking whatever light phenomenon to show me sometimes definitive so I could rule out satellites, etc. Within a minute of me thinking this, the orb appeared. The other Pilot also told me he almost felt like these light phenomenon were reading our minds or telepathically communicating with us.
I know this sounds absolutely insane, but it is what we experienced.
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Flickering green light From my driveway, saw a blinking green light in the sky a little bit east of me. Thought perhaps it was a plane or helicopter, but lights were only green. It also appeared to be hovering, and I first assumed it was actually just moving and coming directly toward me.
But then it immediately took off, heading north, quite smoothly and at a very great speed. It reminded me a bit of a slow-moving shooting star but, again, it was a blinking green light. After it shot north, it seemed to disappear into cloud cover.
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A white object, spherical or possibly egg shaped, was floating about as high as a plane. While I watched it, it vanished instantly. November 13th, 2021 at around 3:00 PM I was leaving a car wash.
While stopping at a stop light, heading south on Statesville road in Huntersville NC, I noticed a white object in the sky about the same altitude as a plane would fly. Because it was so high up, I’m not sure if it was stationary or just moving slowly. It was either spherical or egg shaped, but again, because it was so high I am not sure which.
When I came to a full stop I tried to figure out what it was, and looked at it for about 5-10 seconds. I moved my head left and right to make sure it wasn’t just something on my windshield, and it stayed still while my eyes followed it. While I was looking at it, it disappeared before my eyes without any sign of where it went.
There was not a cloud in the sky that it could have gone behind, and it didn’t accelerate slowly before disappearing. I looked at the truck next to me at the stoplight to see if the driver had seen it, but it didn’t seem like they did. To my left there was a Wells Fargo, and to my right there was a Burger King.
The object was at least a mile in front of me and about the altitude planes fly at, but I couldn’t tell you its exact location. For lack of an address I can provide the coordinates of my car when parked at the stoplight. Latitude: 35,442609 Longitude: -80,865709.
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Silver cylinder, upright beer can like, in sky near Charlotte, NC I was in a hotel swimming pool doing aerobic exercises while looking up at multiple and impressive contrails in the sky. It was still light. The sky was blue with white puffy clouds.
Then I saw what looked like a piece of a flag pole far up in the sky. I kept looking for how a flag pole could only be partially seen in the sky, where was the rest of it? At first, there were not clouds near it. It was silver.
It reminded me of a silver beer can without any writing on it. It was upright and seemed to be still. Then a wisp of a puffy cloud obscured it.
When the cloud cleared, it was gone. I am certain it was not a normal aircraft or drone. Before this, I had never seen anything before that I was certain qualified as a UFO.
The oddest thing is that I stayed in this hotel two months later, and saw a different thing in the sky. I will be filing a September report.
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Bright light flares and makes 90 degree turn I observed a bright white light approaching from the east. At first I thought it was Venus or a bright star (I am an amateur astronomer) but it was in the wrong position, much too low and it was moving. It appeared to be an aircraft but did not have any blinking lights and then the intensity of the brightness increased markedly almost like a flare.
This increase lasted only a few seconds and it continued westward. I believe it flared once more but cannot remember for sure. As it continued west, it then made a very sharp 90 degree turn north and continued on until I could not see it anymore.
The turn was very abrupt - certainly not like any aircraft that I have seen.
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Orange Pulsating Orbs in Huntersville NC I was driving on Saturday night 10/12/19 at 9:30pm in Huntersville North Carolina. I spotted several Orange pulsating orbs moving in straight line across the sky. These where not Chinese lanterns, Flares, or Airplanes.
I could see directly into the orbs and they appeared to be generating some type of energy pulse. These objects where completely silent. They also appear out of nowhere and quickly disappeared once they passed by my direct view.
The sighting lasted about 5 minutes one after another. I stopped and took several pictures and a video. I have posted this to YouTube under orange orbs in Huntersville.
The news interviewed me and people are shocked by the footage.
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Large glowing red mass resembled comet. Large glowing mass moving north, resembled a comet. Moving quickly but not streaking.
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Strange light similar to meteorite suddenly turns in perpendicular direction. Seen again moving across sky and moving up. Saw large bright light in the sky this evening around 6:15pm, sort of pale blue-green with red behind or around outside.
Thought it was a falling meteorite and pointed so family could also see. Just before it disappeared behind trees and houses in the distance it made a fast right turn perpendicular to the original path. Saw the same light again just moments later.
Same general location but this time it was moving horizontally across sky and rising. Again it disappeared behind trees in the area and could only observe for a few minutes.
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4 teenagers have a close encounter with a blue sphere and experienced temporary memory loss. Back in the summer of 2012 school I witnessed something I could not explain along with 4 other people. One of these people was my good friend and eventually my roommate who I will call H.
Everyone involved was completely sober and not under the influence of any drugs or alcohol. Everyone saw the same thing and reacted similarly. We were close to the craft at the time of the sighting and were able to get a good look at it.
Despite the unusual details of the sighting and the confusion and excitement that immediately followed the incident was forgotten by the next morning. One morning as I was waking up from a deep sleep I remembered the craft that I had seen and the memory of the night came back to me all at once. I could not understand why I had forgotten it so easily and no one had ever talked about it considering how unusual it is to see a UFO, especially from how close we were.
I immediately called H and asked if the incident had happened or not and his answer was "oh yeah, I haven't thought about that since it happened!" My theory is that this object sensed our presence and purposefully deleted or obscured our collective memory of the event. Had I not remembered the encounter in a half asleep state I likely would never have remembered this event. After doing some research into other ufo sightings I have found that memory loss of this kind is not uncommon after witnessing a UFO.
I also found that UFO sightings have been common in my area since 1968 because of our close proximity to a nuclear power plant. Many details from the night are blurry but the details I can remember H remembered as well. We could not remember who else was with us but we agreed that there were 2 others with us.
Both of us agreed that the memory loss of the event was strange and that what we saw was technology far more advanced than anything we had ever known. We also agreed that it was possible that this craft may have temporarily erased our memory of the event to potentially discredit our story when it was remembered or that we were never supposed to remember the event at all. This is a report of what we both saw that evening.
On that night we all were trying to go from one house to another to hang out with another friend. I had driven my car to another friends house in the same neighborhood as H's house and walked over to his house from there. We eventually decided to walk back to the other friends house to meet up with him.
The path to take to the other friends house was a short cut that involved crossing through people's back yards and using the neighborhoods greenway trail system. The Torrance Creek Greenway is a system of paved trails that runs through a neighborhood in Huntersville. Several streets have access points to the greenway and there are miles and miles of paved trails on it.
We were crossing the entire distance of the neighborhood and needed to use a good stretch of the greenway to do it. About halfway through the trail we were walking we witnessed the incident. The location was on a long straight stretch of trail that came to a "T" intersection.
We were on the vertical part of the "T" and were about 100-150 feet away from the intersection. On either side of us was a thick mess of 10 foot trees and shrubs that was not passable by humans. At the T intersection there were much taller trees, still with thick greenery that could not be passed by people.
As we were walking and conversation we saw it, almost all of us saw it at the same time as all of us stopped our conversation immediately as I saw it. At the end of the trail, right in the middle of the T intersection was a hovering blue orb of light that seemed to be slightly larger than a basketball in size and perfectly spherical in shape. It was about 4 feet off the ground and was perfectly still and made no noise what so ever.
It was emitting a bright blue light and was easily visible. The solid blue light it produced was both unnatural looking and able to illuminate the surrounding area. There was nothing holding it up, there was no string or signs of it being suspended from another object.
The light it produced did not seem to come from inside of it and did not look like a light inside a blue ball. Instead it seemed as the entire thing was made of a bright glowing substance or a ball of blue light. The Voyager 2 picture of Uranus is a good example of what the ball looked like, solid blue and completely featureless.
It did not look like anything I had ever seen before. It could not have been a lamp or light held by a person because the area around it was illuminated and any people would have been easily visible. For 10 seconds all of us were completely silent, staring in shock at this mysterious blue orb.
I had a strange peaceful sensation all over my body and felt frozen in place and very confused. It felt like the orb knew we were there just as we knew of its presence. We stared at frozen for what seemed like 10 seconds before I felt the sensation pass and someone said " what.
what is that?" Then we all immediately started running towards it at the same time without saying another word to each other. There was no thought behind it really. I remember just feeling compelled to run towards this object, and my friends must have felt the same.
We were able to run about 50 feet before the orb darted down the left hand trail. It followed a perfectly "ruler" straight trajectory to the left of where it was and did not show any signs of acceleration. It immediately started going as fast as it moved, which I would estimate to be around 300-400 miles per hour.
Nothing I have ever seen moves like this thing moved. As we continued to run towards the end of the trail the orb darted back in the other direction, on the right side of the T intersection. It was still moving at the same high rate of speed and showed no signs of acceleration, it came back into sight precisely where it had disappeared and flew in a perfectly straight line horizontally before disappearing from view on the other side of the trees.
When we got to the intersection the orb had completely disappeared, there was no one there but us. It had taken us perhaps 3-4 seconds to reach the intersection after it has disappeared from sight and yet there was no trace of anything or anyone. For a brief period of time after the event we were all rather excited about the sighting, as none of us had ever seen a UFO.
We discussed what it could have been and almost all of us came to the conclusion that it was alien technology. We went to bed that night and then forgot the entire thing by the next morning. Not a single thought of this crossed my mind until 2015 when I woke up one morning.
H did not remember the night until I asked him about it. All I had said to him at first was "do you remember when we saw that UFO on the greenway?" and he was able to recount the details I have described above.
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bright red orange and yellow ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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UFO 10-12 yards away from us! It shines it's spotlight on us! We are not alone It begins around midnight. Friday, July 22, 2011. It was a clear night in the suburbs of Charlotte, NC.
More stars out than usual. My friend & I were looking at the stars, admiring their beauty. There is what looks like a really brightly shinning and blinking star off in the distant sky.
We watched it for a spell of about 20 minutes. I thought at this point it must be a tower of some kind. I looked away.
Just then, this "tower" starts moving around. It's now a  bright series if flashing lights that appears to be moving up, down, and side to side. I think my eyes are playing tricks on me.
I look away from the lights and rub my eyes. I am done starring off into the sky. I am looking to my right, talking with my friend; when a bright, white flash in the sky behind the trees & right in front of me, catches my attention.
"what ((deleted)) was that?" I exclaimed! It was then, that my friend said, "it's that." (while pointing up to the sky, where the flash came from) I saw the cluster of lights (red, orange, & white) revolving around in the sky. It was high then low, high, low.
It looked as tho it were flat. This was NOT consiststant with an airplane. Airplanes move in a straight line & have simultaneously blinking white & red lights.
It was moving so fast! It turned it's big spot light towards my friend & I. I thought it looked as though it were headed straight towards us. Then we could hear it's low sounding humm.
It now had shifted shapes. It was now a sphere. It hovered over the nearest  bunch of trees & then came down into our c ul-da-sac.
Just hovering there. It hummed along down our street and stopped right before passing us. It shined it's bright, white, spotlight onto us both as we just stood there, starring in awe & disbelief.
The UFO was now about 12 yards away from us. It turns it's light back to it's path & humms as it hovers down our street. The top of the craft was as high up  as the bottom of the second story windows.
It appears to be the size of a compact car. It moves passed our house & down our street, then back up into the heavens. We tried to take a few photos.
Unfortunately we wern't able to get anything that looked even remotely close to what we saw with our eyes. It began to ascend into the night sky. It became flat again! In just a few seconds it disappeared.
Back up to the heavens to be seen as a bright star again. This whole scene takes place in about 7-10 minutes. .
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white lights high in the skies over huntersviile, nc moving very fast at all different directs. sit outside wherever you are and look we have seen many white, circle shaped objects in the sky moving left to right and right to left, up and down at very high speeds, then stop and change direction. these objects are very high up and move at high speeds.
it would be very hard to capture on video due to how far up they are. you can see them with the naked eye however it does take patience. they try to blend in like stars, however, stars don't move, don't have a short thrust of light, short blinks of light.
very strange. i would suggest those who are interested to look.really look at the skies at night and you will see what we are talking about.
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Cylinder shaped object with orange glow, slowly moving to the east before disappearing from site. One cylinder shaped object with orange glow, dropping smaller objects towards the ground. Slowly moving to the east and then disappearing from site very quickly.
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Box shape (ie a book) flat black all around, 2 large white lights no windows or exhaust slow & silent. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).
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was driving home from school along I-77 south around exit 25 and saw almost directly above the highway about 1/2 mile in front of me at approx 3-4 thousand feet in altitude a silver thick disk shaped object that turned really bright and disappeared within a few seconds. object was not moving and appeared to hover. heard no sound but i was listening to music really loud.
i do not take any prescription medication or any drugs. This is the fourth "UFO" ive seen in my life. there were many other cars and trucks on the road that may have seen it too but i didnt stop to chat with anyone.
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UFO near switchyard of nuclear power plant. While performing routine ((job function deleted)) in the switchyard adjacent to a nuclear power plant, I saw an unidentified flying object with blue and white lights hovering near the switchyard.it disappeared quickly.
((NUFORC Note: Date may be approximate. PD)).
Huntersville, 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 | 3 reported sightings | 18.75% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Huntersville, 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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May | 3 reported sightings | 18.75% of all reports |
July | 3 reported sightings | 18.75% of all reports |
June | 2 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
September | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Huntersville, 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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Saturday | 8 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Tuesday | 3 reported sightings | 18.75% of all reports |
Friday | 2 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Thursday | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Huntersville, 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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12/09/06 | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
09/23/23 | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
08/29/09 | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
10/24/10 | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
07/22/11 | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Huntersville, 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 | 11 reported sightings | 68.75% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 3 reported sightings | 18.75% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Huntersville, North Carolina
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Huntersville, North Carolina.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2023 | 1 UFO Reports | Huntersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2023 |
2022 | 1 UFO Reports | Huntersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2022 |
2021 | 1 UFO Reports | Huntersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2021 |
2020 | 2 UFO Reports | Huntersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2020 |
2019 | 1 UFO Reports | Huntersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2019 |
2014 | 2 UFO Reports | Huntersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2014 |
2012 | 2 UFO Reports | Huntersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2012 |
2011 | 1 UFO Reports | Huntersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2011 |
2010 | 1 UFO Reports | Huntersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2010 |
2009 | 1 UFO Reports | Huntersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2009 |
2006 | 2 UFO Reports | Huntersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2006 |
1979 | 1 UFO Reports | Huntersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 1979 |
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