All Reported UFO Sightings in Kannapolis, North Carolina

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Oval object with lights moving across the sky. The lights turned off & it became difficult to see it moving. I observed an oval shaped object with lights moving across the sky.

The lights turned off and then it became hard to see the object but you could still see the outline of the oval. A couple in the car beside me at the stoplight saw it as well. We all had our heads out the window looking and pointing.

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2 Headlight looking lights off in distance. Was omw to work stopped at stoplight. I was fixing to make a lft.

turn off Oakwood Ave. onto Winecoff Sch. Rd.

I like the Planets so everyday I look E at Venus Mars Jupiter and Saturn. They are easy to see at this place and time. I rolled down my window and looked out.

At about a 30 degree angle up, ESE, I saw what looked like 2 headlights just stationary off in the distance. The light changed and I looked away to turn lft. A second later it would be out my windshield then.

The lft. Light faded out and the other went behind tree as I drove. 10 seconds later when I should see it again, it was gone.

I was kinda iffy at what I saw and kinda questioned myself. That's until a second event occurred the next Saturday morning at 4:00am 7/23/22 I walked out my basement door with binoculars around my neck and phone in pocket to look at the planets.(I kinda sky watch regularly.

) I was walking W by the trees in my front yard so I could see the sky because of the trees. I passed them, turned lft and looked up in the sky. I was surprised to see in the SSE at about a 45 degree angle up the same 2 headlight looking lights were stationary in the sky.

I looked at it/them for about 8 seconds. I smiled because it confirmed with me what I saw on 7/15. I thought get a picture.

I looked away to grab my cell phone to grab a pic. I looked back up at it with my phone in hand and was trying to get to my camera. I was looking at the lights for a few seconds and they faded out of sight quickly both lights at the same time.

I stayed out looking til 5:30 am but saw nothing else. The lights were way bigger and brighter than Jupiter. Idk but it looked like a cars headlights at night coming straight at you at a distance of about a full 1 mile or better size and brightness.

Or maybe like 75 to 100 times bigger and brighter than Jupiter which was out then. The light was more of a yellowish color though. Not white like a newer car headlights.

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Drone like UFO captured on video Video captured drone like object 7 times tough out the night. First video starts at 1:38 and last video is at 5:30 AM. The object appeared to be interested in the IR lights on my camera, but unlike a drone the object did not disturb the near by shrubs at all like a drone would from its fan blades.

The object also appears to be flying at a 5 degree tilt in a consistent pattern with 4 lights across the horizontal surface of the object.

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June 28 2019 a UFO was caught on my deer camera. It appeared from 1:30 am to 5:30 am for a few seconds at a time. It appears to be curious of the infrared light emitting diodes on my camera.

I thought it was a drone but no air was moving around the nearby shrubs. ((NUFORC Note: We have corrected the date. PD)).

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Triangular shaped hovering aircraft in sky on highway 3 and Kannapolis Parkway. I was driving home to Mooresville from the Kannapolis area and noticed in the sky there was a triangular shaped aircraft hovering above the trees on the left side of Kannapolis Parkway headed toward Mooresville. It was not moving and did not make a sound.

I passed it and then on turning down highway 3, headed toward Mooresville, I was on the phone with my grandmother and had to stop talking I was so shocked at what I saw in the sky. I saw about 5 or 6 hovering triangular aircraft with 3 lights on each angle lining the road. As I approached Odell School Rd and Hwy 3 intersection, I saw to my left about a quarter of a mile away roughly 8-10 if not more lights in the sky that were moving around erratically in strange formation.

The lights spanned close to half a mile and were a good distance away.

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I am a truck driver, mostly drive at night and I've never seen anything like this before. Driving down interstate 85 south to Charlotte, from Kannapolis, NC. Saw a bright green light fall from the sky.

Almost the color of a traffic light. It had no tail or trail so I don't think it was a meteor. There is no way I am the only witness.

Traffic was very heavy at the time. The light disappeared behind some buildings.

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3 white lights in triangular formation hovering in the NW sky of Kannapolis. 3 bright white lights in a triangle formation. Seen in the NW sky completely still for a minute or so and then slowly descended straight down below tree line and was out of sight.

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Well me and my other friend was looking up and saw a star moving across the sky at first I through it was the ISS but I checked it and it was over South America it was not a shooting star because it didn't go away I don't know what it was but it was in orbit and was really small and moving very fast. ((NUFORC Note: Date may be flawed. The date of the alleged sighting, we suspect, may have been August 27, not July 27.

We have attempted to contact the two witnesses via telephone, but unsuccessfully, to date. PD)).

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Had made a fire for me and a few friends to sit around late in the evening in the backyard. While getting fire started, I was along outside. After the fire got going, I sat down to relax.

After about ten minutes, I had the strangest sensation that someone was looking at me. I looked to my right and I saw this orb which was white in color, the same color as a star. I would say their size was about the size of a softball, maybe as big as a basketball.

Hard to tell. However, this orb wasn't a celestial body as it was maybe only 100 feet above my trees running down the property line. The object was static for approx.

30 seconds as I initially observed it. While looking at it, I was trying to figure out what it could have been. Then after half a minute, the object started pulsing (bright, gone, bright, gone) and began moving erratically over my property, changing altitude, direction, and velocity.

It emitted no sound at all that was perceivable to me. At this point, I ran in the house and got my friends to come outside and observe. We could not identify the phenomenon, however, one friend offered up that they could be fireflies.

This was the closest explanation, however it failed to explain the color (object(s) were bright white, not greenish-yellow), nor the speed at which they were able to traverse the sky (very quickly as to meandering around). We then began seeing other orbs spontaneously appearing in the night sky, and they began to fly in formation. The maneuvers would then break off in different directions and start kind of behaving randomly again.

An orb would appear in a place in the sky, disappear, then pop up in another location. The pulsing of the light was not static either. Sometimes they would strobe faster, other times they would appear to flicker.

We tried to photograph them, but they did not appear in the digital photographs, which was odd because they were much more luminous than the regular celestial objects appearing in the night sky. In total there were four of us obs! erving. I was also using binoculars to see them upclose, however, I was unable to make out any shape or physical form as the light they emitted was intense and not translucent.

At one point, I believe I heard a helicopter nearby, and wondered if they were seeing this. There was also a jet aircraft moving quite fast and flying low which came out of nowhere and was traveling in the direction that the orbs were present. Several of them shot up vertically to the flight's altitude and got very close to the aircraft.

Immediately proceeding this event, the sky seemed to be brimming with these objects flying in formation in groups of two's or three's, disappearing, and then emerging way across the sky in the same flight path in another location. It seemed to me that they were "jumping" almost. Very weird.

When the phenomena had stopped for about an hour, I was outside and had this thought to myself that was something like, "Wow, I wish I could see them one more time, it was so cool" and immediately, as if on cue, one was literally at the tree tops in my back yard right above my head. The object seemed to persist until I finally called it a night and went back inside. No further sightings since.

My friend said that the color at times appeared slightly orangish, but I can say that I definitely did not see any orange, or any other color, except pure white.

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Black, ess-shaped, slow-moving twirling object sighted over Kannapolis, NC on Memorial Day and observed by 6 persons. The six of us were out in the yard throwing the football around after dinner on Memorial Day, 2014. We were looking at some birds over the house when in the distance was spotted a black object, S-shaped, slowly rotating higher than the birds.

It was a decent size based on the birds in the sky and much further up and away. It moved slowly from from SW to NE (Concord to Salisbury direction). There was no noise associated with the object.

We first noticed it with our eyes but folowed it using binoculars until it disappeared behind some distant clouds. The sky was perfectly clear at the time of sighting with only some clouds at the NE which it was hidden from view at the end.

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The black dot stayed on a steady course. I was at my workplace before clocking in and I was outside and it was partly to mostly sunny(a lot of clouds) I saw a black dot on a eastern course, at first I thought it was a bird except it stayed on a straight line, it did not waver or wonder from this course. I had to walk around the corner to keep track.

I ruled out a plane or a jet for 2 reasons, the first is it made no sound and the second was that most of the time a jet or plane appears white or silver against a blue sky. This was a solid black dot, slightly larger that the period at the end of this sentence. I watched it for a good solid minute, it just remained on the steady course and grew smaller until it was out of sight.

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Fireball traveling in the sky I was inside watching tv when I noticed a bright red light outside my window. I went outside and saw what looked like something on fire. I thought it was a plane in trouble.

It travel in a slow steady pace from south to north then turned going east. After it turned the fire died down and it looked like red lights of some kind moving still steady going east until out of site. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

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large white flame in the Southern Sky I just wanted to let you know first. I have just witnessed an object falling into the atmosphere at 5:08 am this morning(2/15//09). I stepped outside to have a cigarrette, and noticed a glow travelling due south about 45 degrees above the horizon.

it proceeded to fall glowing a bright silver color, with no other color at an unusually slow rate. After about 1.5 seconds it began to dim and then the intense glow faded to see a remnant travelling for another .

5-.7 seconds towards the treeline behind the water tower. The trajectory appeared to be heading into the East side over Charlotte, and from my astonomy background appeared unusual because of the relative speed and color.

I seemed about 1/2 the speed of most meteor oblects and the duration of visibility after burning also lasted for a longer period. The color was an intense white light that would be a magnitude 5 times brighter than Jupiter ( which is visible just after sunset in the East currently around 7 pm). This could have been a very large meteor that did not burn completely, and the remains may have reached Earth East to South East of Charlotte.

This however appeared to be at a slower speed, possibly close to a speed of a visible manmade satellite. [There has been recent news coverage of a 2 satellite collision last week (maybe around Tuesday-Wednseday). Also there has been coverage of close range asteroids that were found last Autumn, and several large objects that entered the atmoshere last October-November 2008.

Also, I saw one of these on 10/31/08 at 2:58 am and the color was yellow amber with a fater speed and longer visible duration which appeared to break into several pieces]. What I saw this morning was different than normal in speed and color from previous experiences with meteor phenomenon, and may be part of recent satellite activity. What I thought was most interesting was that it occured in Charlotte airspace, and could have been spotted on radar.

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triangular reddish reflective object flying South My neighbor had told me of a photo you showed on TV today that was taken 9/18 near Charlotte. I could not find information on this website about this , and was hoping to confirm what I had observed the two previous evenings. Outiside At approximately 8:40pm on Sunday 9/16 after sunset I was observing the evening sky saw two small (blueish)dimly lit round objects travelling from North to South over the Kannapolis area.

They appeared larger than a star or satellite, but (reflective ?)brightness of about half of the surrounding average stars. They appeared to be very high elevation, and faster than any manned aircraft I have ever observed. Speed estimate would be slower than a meteor, and much faster than a satellite when viewed from Earth and moving about 5 degrees apart at exact speed and direction, one following the other.

They crossed the sky about 25 degrees above the North horizon to about 25-30 degrees from reaching the Southern Horizon and duration of abount 15-20 seconds. Curiously enough, I was again outside at aproximately 8:40 pm on Monday 9/17. I did not see the same objects, instead only a single.

Appearing larger, (about 3/4 thumbnail at arm length) and a triangular in exact symmetry. Coloration was dim, but reddish hue possibly from reflection ,against the early twilight blue. This object appeared to follow the exact previous North to South path , but may have been considerably larger or lower in Altitude.

The triangular object speed was nearly 2-3 times faster than the previous, with the duration of about 7-10 seconds to cross the sky. Neither obsevations included atmoshereic disturbances, contrails, or sound activity. Elevation, I believe was low orbit, maybe several miles above commercial aircraft.

I tried but did not observe anything other than normal aircraft/satellite activity on 9/18 from 8:35 pm until 9:00 pm. Probably the object you saw was a few minutes earlier than what I was prepared for. I would really be interested in seeing an image on the website, or maybe a link to it if possible.

Tonight will be cloudy, so observing will be limited for this area. Just wanted ask, if you know, since this is a repeating occurance, can it be referenced with airport radar? ** amateur astonomer- cleaning telescope this is e-mail copy i sent to local weather correspondent, after hearing that he broadcast a photo on Monday's daytime weather report. No reply, no link listed on the TV website.

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Multiple sightings of star like object moving in rapid precise movements across the night sky Over the last two weeks I have been observing several unidentified objects in the area North of Charlotte, NC. These objects hover and then move very rapidly across the night sky. I have witnessed these objects travel several miles, stop, change direction, move slowly and actually travel in a complete 360 degrees around my view on the back deck at my home.

I have actually seen these objects slowly move across the sky and then move quickly to an area very close to passing aircraft and actually move with the aircraft for quite a distance. These objects appear to look like a star falling from the sky but have distinct movements and do not fade out like a star falling through the atmosphere. They appear to be very small in size but last night they appeared a few times as though they had a cloaking effect and you could make out a shadow of a much larger object.

((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Sirius? PD)).

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Glowing oval object over North Carolina sky My wife and I downloaded The Evening Sky Map and where looking towards the big dipper, when something caught her eye. Almost in the direction of Etamin we observed a glowing oval shape object, a far off, in the distance. It was traveling south to north at a very high rate of speed and making zig zag turns.

We thought maybe a shooting star but there was no tail and it had east to west movement.

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Top &bottom of chrome disk in morning sky for 10-15 seconds,then it disapears!! I was stopped at a red light, heading east on Dale Earrhardt Blvd.I looked above the ligths and saw a small round object,it was tilted at about a 40 degree angle.What caught my eye is the fact it was chrome and going very slow.

Then the disk turned so I could see the bottom,it was also chrome. The strange part was the sun was almost in front of me,but just a hair to the right. So that means the sun was behind the disk.

So how did the chrome body shine the way it did, but the strangest part is after a few seconds it disappered, just like some one turned off a light!!! I never reappered. The sky was compelty clear,not a cloud in sight. The reason I weaited to report this is I wanted to see the local news papers and news on tv, to see if anyone else saw the disk, they didn't.

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UFOs that have humans coming out of them!!!! We saw 2 rectangular shaped objects that had a redish light to it that looked like a stoplight but not aqs bright, it had no sound at all it was about 5 to 600 yards in the air it looked like a rockets fule going out. I looked at my friends to see if they saw what I did and they did. AS i looked back in the sky there was 7 more of these recytangular shaped objects.

Then seconds later it looked as if a human was floating in the air with a long black coat. To this day me and my friends have no idea what this was we even brought this to the city of Kannapolis and goverment. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

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A long light, like a star that moved fast and kinda sparkled. Moved in full view, low in the sky in less than 60 seconds I was on my front porch smoking and I noticed this long light, like a star that moved fast and kinda sparkled moving south. (coming from behind the house next to mine and moving south) The strangest thing was that it moved into and out of full view in less than 60 seconds and it was really low in the sky.

I called my friend who lives one street over in hopes that he was also outside smoking and asked him if he saw it too. He was not outside at that time so he did not, however he did go out and look and he saw three helicopters moving in from the south and they were circling and literally hovering in an area in the south west about 6 or so miles away. I was still on the phone with him while he was telling me about the helicopters and I hung up and walked (about a block) over to his house and I could see the helicopters myself.

They were too far away to have caused the "light" that I saw. But they were certainly searching for something. On the 11:00 news there was a report that there had been many calls into 911 about "bright lights" in the sky and "rattling" of houses.

The reporter stated that it was a meteor shower. Funny thing is, I've never known a meteor shower to happen that low to the ground and especially so low it causes houses to shake. And exactly what were those three helicopters investigating???.

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2 red lights, side by side I was driving on East 1st street in Kannapolis NC, and I saw these two red lights side by side, no blinking, no strobing, they reminded me of stoplights, except they were not as bright, and as far as I could tell, not very far away, I rolled my window down and heard nothing except the wind, the two red lights looked rather large and I thought it was odd that I heard no sound.