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Kernersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 15 UFO sighting reports in Kernersville, North Carolina to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (5 reports, 33.33% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 26.67% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 33.33% of total).
- 2012 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 26.67% of total).
- 09/15/77 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 6.67% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (8 reports, 53.33% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Kernersville, North Carolina
These Kernersville, 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).
Full Report Text:
We witnessed a large craft hovering in the distance. pitched forward and stationary until it vanished My son and I were traveling down Union Cross Rd in Kernersville (heading in the direction of the HWY 74 BYPASS); If you are looking at a map, when he first mentioned to me that he saw something, we were at the new intersection with Interstate I40. he was seeing it for approx 30 seconds before I could focus on it.
it was incredibly far off in the distance. That being said, today was an exceptionally clear day so it wasn't hard to see this thing in detail. At first, it looked like a comet.
same shape with a tail/trail that was in close proximity to the body (noticeably different than the contrails of any aircraft). I even suggested in the first few seconds that possibly there was a close proximity launch??? Which I could immediately rule out considering where we are in the state of NC and the direction that it was facing. But once we came past Glenn High School, where we had about a mile to really focus on it, there was ZERO movement from the craft.
It was pitched forward and down. and (this is an absolutely rough estimate) it was by our best guess, over the region of Cabarrus County and possibly close to the Charlotte area. This craft was incredibly large.
with amateur eyes, I can only guess that it was at about 10,000 ft. and looked to be the size of 3 or 4 blimps. But as far away as it was, it was a very clearly defined structure and/or craft and it was definitely cylinder in shape.
Completely motionless. pitched forward. We had a good 90 seconds to view the object until we came to a spot where the trees along the road way began to obstruct our view.
20 seconds later one we had reached about where we had the same visibility. it was completely gone. We had a good 2-3 miles of open road to try to find a point in the sky where we could pick it up again, but we were never able to locate it/.
I am 44 years old. I have seen just about every aircraft you can name off in real life. I have never seen something of this size.
at that distance. in broad daylight.,.
Full Report Text:
Coming home from dinner, I spotted 3 orangish red glowing lights in the sky . There were 3 of them and they seemed to be almost in a line up and down, but as we kept driving the one on the bottom started to space itself away from the other 2 . We travel this rd a lot and I've never seen anything like this before.
My kids were also in the car and saw it. As I dropped my son off and came back down the same road, they were gone!.
Full Report Text:
Two very silent and steady red lights at relatively low altitude with individual paths pass directly overhead in the night sky. I was in a parking lot at 36.074638, -80.
057982. The objects were steady red lights, similar in appearance to lights on a distant radio tower. In the course of about 60 seconds they moved at relatively constant speed from about 45 degrees on the horizon almost due South (when I first observed them) to about 30 degrees on the horizon almost due North, passing directly overhead.
When I first observed them to the south, they had some initial horizontal movement that brought them very close together a couple of times, and then they separated by about a degree or two, and remained roughly parallel for about 40 seconds as they passed overhead and towards the North, and one was a couple of degrees in front of the second. I thought it was strange to see only single red lights from individual aircraft. But I also thought that they were likely helicopters when I first observed the horizontal movements they initially made.
I fully expected that as they grew close! r, I would hear some form of engine or rotor noise. But as they passed overhead, there was nothing but silence. If they had been aircraft, I would have estimated their altitude to have been a couple thousand feet.
When they got to the 30 degree angle in the north sky, one red light veered off to the right at about a 45 degree angle and I lost sight of it, and about 5 seconds later, the second light disappeared, obscured by low level clouds and city lights from the horizon. I am a licensed professional civil engineer, and I happened to be in my church parking lot at the time of the observation. I tried to take a phone video of the second half of the observation, but I only got a completely white image.
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Two flickering fireballs moved across the sky, changing speed and direction. Two flickering fireballs moved across unobstructed view, 8 acre, field. There was no noise at all.
They were moving pretty fast when they came across the tree line, heading east from Winston-Salem, right towards us. They slowed down as the came across the field. Then they changed direction completely, sped up, and headed north until we couldn’t see them anymore.
Then another, third one, came in almost the same pattern, finally heading off to the north. It looked like it was 1500 ft off the ground and moved parallel to the ground until it headed off to the north which it started gaining elevation and speed. The light from it looked kind of like an orange flare.
There was no smoke or trail though. I would estimate that it travelled several miles before we lost sight of it. We have never seen anything like it.
Full Report Text:
strange the objects made NO sound at all. 3 orange fire balls about 3 miles apart, moving about the same speed as a plain moved across the sky, from N to S. Appered to b about the size of a plane.
there were plains in the backgroung what ever these things were, werent the same.
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This is a small light that appears in one spot each night that changes different colors. Hello, I’d like to report a strange object that changes colors in the sky each night. This object is always in the same spot or a few inches off only sometimes.
It will appear usually between 9:30pm-10:00pm eastern. My friends and I have watched this over the past few weeks. It will be completely dark in the same area right before the time and then it will slowly come about.
It changes from blue, red, green and sometimes a bright white. When planes pass above it usually becomes dim and comes back to being bright. I was unsure of how to let someone know about this, but would like to know just what it is.
We know it is not a star or a planet and not a satellite. Can someone help us know what this may be? ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of star or planet? PD)).
Full Report Text:
light moved across sky no sound made very hard turns and moved side to side way to fast to be a plane it moved like a balloon that was really high up and very bright ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We assume an evening sighting, and we have changed the time above. PD)).
Full Report Text:
3 stationary orange lights in a triangle just above horizon. I had just got home to my apartment on Thanksgiving afternoon, around dusk, after spending it with a married couple friend of mine. I got out of my car in my apartment parking lot, looked toward the west and saw 3 glowing orange lights just above the horizon.
The 3 lights made a vertical triangle. At first I thought they were 3 helicopters flying in formation moving across the sky but then realized they were not moving at all and were completely silent. Thinking logically, I then thought they were a radio tower but I knew of only one radio tower in the immediate vicinity about ¾ mile away and at that moment, it could be clearly seen 90 degrees to my right.
I looked around the parking lot to see if anyone else saw the same thing I was seeing but I did not see anyone else. After about 5 minutes of staring at this thing, one by one, the orange lights just flickered off like 3 candles. I was looking towards the west during dusk so it could possibly be a sunset atmospheric phenomenon (I believe there was a high overcast cloudy sky that day).
However, I had never seen anything like those 3 orange lights prior to, nor since, that day.
Full Report Text:
five lights in the sky within an hour. seen 5 lights in the period of about an hour. all going in different directions.
the last light i seen was going off to the east at a high rate of speed and was followed within 3 mins. buy two fast moving low flying jets. five people seen the jets ,me and my wife was the only ones to see the lights as far as we know.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Daytime Object spotted on outskirts of Kernersville, North Carolina Date: Monday March 30, 2009 Time: 7:52am Weather: Clear Skies/47 degrees Location: West of Kernersville First Sighting While on the way to drop my son off at school, at approx 7:51am, I noticed a rather large Metallic object in the western sky about ½ mile ahead of us. Upon getting closer to the object, I was able to see the object in greater detail. The object was around 600 to 700ft.
high and was hovering at the time. It was now 7:52am. The object was about 100 to 150ft in Length and appeared to be about 40ft in Width.
The object was rectangular in shape and had 2 black colored areas on both sides of it that were about 5 to 7 ft long. In the middle of the object, I could see a long opening/slit than span between the black sides. Right above the opening/slit, there was a Pulsating Amber Colored Light.
I observed the object until approx. 7:55 and it appeared to just be hovering over an open area to the west of us. While rounding a curve, I lost sight of the object as it went behind some trees.
Second Sighting At approx. 7:57am I was able to regain site of the object and it was now moving more in a WNW direction. Then, all of a sudden, it began to bank/turn towards the North and this is when I could see just how massive the object was.
At this time, the Amber Colored Light on the rear of it was no longer Pulsating, it was a Solid Amber Light. While the object continued to bank to the right, I was able to see the top of it. The Top of the object was Metallic in color in the rear and front sections The rear of the top section was rectangular and had a pattern on it that resembled mosaic tiles.
The middle of the top section was completely round and Metallic looking with Dark Grey Lines covering the entire circle. The front of the top section was also rectangular in shape and had a mosaic looking pattern on it as well. I noticed a Triangle shape on the very tip of the front of the object and it had what appeared to be a metal pipe that was angled toward the ground.
The object remained at least a ½ to ¼ mile from us the entire time. Shocking Ending just before losing sight of Object The time now is somewhere between 7:59 and 8:00am. The object has completed its turn and all of a sudden, the object splits into 3 Orb shaped objects and appears to be attempting to fly in formation similar to how jets would fly.
All 3 objects are black in color and have some how reduced in size. Although now split into 3, the object in the front of the formation still has the triangular shape on the tip of it along with what appeared to be a metal looking pipe pointing toward the ground. I was only able to keep my eye on the object for about 45 seconds due to traffic in the area around the school.
Full Report Text:
Cylinder object morphs to Sphere shape with Amber colored light over Kernersville, NC On Monday July 21, 2008 at approx. 3:18am, we (my son Dustin, his friend Casey, and me Keith) were watching some late night movies. Our dog, Rusty, alerted me that he needed to be taken outside.
It was a very clear night with no clouds and a very bright moon. We all were amazed at how bright the moon was and how far you could see and make out things that you normally cannot see at that time of morning. Upon opening the front door, I saw a bright Amber colored light in the Southwestern sky.
Our house sits down in a small valley with a steep hill directly in front of the house. At the top of our road, which is approx. 150 yards away,lies the main road with a row of houses and then another very large valley around 1000 yards behind them.
From our house looking up toward the main road, I noticed that the object was hovering about 200 or so feet above the valley. The valley consists of heavy woods, a large lake and several houses. A majority of the valley is wooded and is not heavily populated.
Upon standing at the front door and watching the object, it continued to hover in the same area now for approx. 8 minutes. As the object continued to hover, my son Dustin says he is going to go up to the top of our road for a close look.
Once up there, he is overwhelmed by the size of the object and notices that it is Cylinder shaped and the color of gun metal(polished nickle). He notices that the object is much closer to the houses on the main road than we had thought. He also notices that the object is silent, no noise at all and the Amber light stretches the entire length of the object.
He also notices that the Amber light is a solid light and though it is very bright, it does night emit a beam out in front of it like a flashlight would or headlights do. What happens next is what really scared him the most. The object, now hovering less that 200 yards from the top of our road changes its shape from Cylinder to Sphere right in front of him.
He then takes off running back to the house and literally begs me to shut the door and lock it! While watching it from the front porch, his friend and I had also noticed that it changed shape, but, from our view point, I had thought that the object had just turned instead of changing its shape. Now, instead of us being able to see the light span the entire length of the object, we could only see a small part of the light which made me think that it had turned. But, my sons exact words to me was this: "Dad, it made no noise and was hovering just behind the houses, it changed it's shape from the cylinder to a sphere and the light is now in the center of the sphere".
"Please dad, shut the door and lock it.Please!" At this time, I really started writing all of this down because not only had it scared my son, it really made me fear for our safety. His friend at this time had started to cry.
I think it was due to just not knowing what it was or feeling threatened. Now, being about 13 minutes the Sphere started to move to the south. We noticed that as it moved to the south, the Amber light now covered the entire object.
As it hovered, it slowly began to make a southwestern turn and very slowly began to move away from us. It moved very slowly and the farther it hovered away from us, the smaller the light got. It was completely out of our view/site at appox.
3:36am. We stood on the front porch for several minutes there after and never saw the object again. As far as our backgrounds, we are your typical family.
I, the dad is a 37 year old male and my son is 14 years old and his friend is 14 years old. We have all been skeptics about the very thing that we witnessed Monday morning. While we do not know what it is that we all witnessed, we would like to know exactly what it was.
After talking to my son and his friend, they both stated that they wish not to discuss it. I believe that it scared them as much as it upset me. Overall, the object was about 80ft in length and about 40ft in thickness.
It's color was that of polished nickle or at least that it what color it appeared to be under the brightness of the moon. The object had an Amber colored light that spanned the entire length of the object and was positioned in the center. Once it changed it's shape from Cylinder to Sphere, the Sphere was now around 60 to 80 ft in diameter and was completely silent.
The Amber colored light was now positioned in the center of the Sphere and totally surrounded the Sphere as it hovered southwest and completely out of our view. It was not seen there after. The entire event lasted approx.
18 minutes. The temp. outside was in the upper 80's and very humid.
The moon was very bright and the skies were very clear. A light northern breeze was blowing at the time of the event.
Full Report Text:
My wife and I were traveling on I-40 the day after valentines when we noticed what we thought was an airplane moving so slowly that it seemed surreal. As we got closer we saw that it was no plane and in fact it was not moving. I have never believed in them but I am absolutely certain that I saw a UFO that day.
I saw your site the day after, but I was reluctant to report this except to close family.
Full Report Text:
bright flash heading southeast about 10 degrees left below a half moon, towards Greensboro,very possibly a meteorite,but very definetly no aircraft.
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Three points of light in triangle alignment. Saw three points of light come from the West, all fixed as if they were each a point of one triangle - they stayed in this alignment the entire time. The lights were bright and stood out against the night sky.
I was never able to make out an object, only lights. Traveling at an unbelievable speed, the object(s) came to a complete stop without even slowing down. It hovered for less than a second, then continued East at the same speed before coming to a second complete stop.
The object never took time to speed up or slow down. It hovered for less than a second again before traveling at the same speed but in the reverse direction - towards the West. The object stopped a third time, again without taking time to slow down.
The object then continued in the original direction until it was out of sight. The entire episode lasted less than five seconds. The lights were amber colored.
Full Report Text:
My family and I saw a saucer hovering over our field. There is missing time. and I could tell of another instant when I was six but .
It was in the summer months of 1977. I was 13. My family and I were inside our home in NC.
It was around 6pm when we all (my mom, dad, little brother and me) heard what sounded like a diesel truck idling. That was weird to us because we lived on a private road 4 families that lived on that road including ourselves. Our neighbor who was a long distance driver was on one of his long distance trips.
My dad thought perhaps he was back early and asked me to go to the front door to see. I did; I saw nothing. I’m telling you this because this sound is what compelled us to go outside.
My dad sat for a while longer and asked my mother to look. She saw nothing but we all still heard the noise. Finally, my dad went to look.
He walked through the living room. I followed him (I knew I saw nothing), then everyone else fell in line. I saw my dad take the one step down off the porch he then looked to his left and I could tell something had caught his eye and he looked up and quickly started toward what he saw.
Here is a memory gap. I don’t remember walking out to the edge of the field. (There was a 2 acre field that had been cleared a year earlier) I found myself standing at the edge of the field looking up at a saucer shaped hovering object.
The object was big but it could have landed in the field if it had a mind to. This was around 6pm it was daylight mind you. The sound was gone.
I was dumbstruck, mesmerized maybe, but I was not afraid. We were so close to it that I could see it was made out of one piece of gray metal (it looked like what we call Teflon now) No windows, no people getting in or out. In fact it didn’t even land.
Now here is another memory gap. It is now nighttime I’m standing in the same spot I was and staring at this thing. It was darting around at impossible angles and speed.
I am trying my hardest to figure out what it is. A plane? No planes do not stop and hover in mid air. A helicopter? No it does not have propellers and there is no sound.
Copters can’t do that. Then what is it? (This is what I’m thinking) I look up to my dad who is standing right beside me and his eyes are huge and his mouth is gaping like a scream should be coming out of him, but he makes no sound, and he looks like he is stiff. Now it dawns on me that we might actually be in a life threatening situation! Now I’m terrified! Then as we are standing there, the disk just shoots straight up and is gone in a millisecond.
We are still standing there looking up into the sky for a couple of more minutes like we are waiting for someone to say “ok, shows over”. Like I said before it was night now, everyone walked back into the house in silence. We all just stood in silence just wondering to ourselves, what did we just see? We reported what we saw to the police over the phone.
They called back the same night and said we had probably seen a weather balloon. My dad trying to rationalize what we saw (and probably trying to keep us from freaking out) told us we probably saw a government flying machine of some sort. “It is probably top secret stuff” he said.
So he very soberly and sternly and frightfully told us that we were never to talk about this again among ourselves or anyone else. We never did, until I called my adult little brother and asked if he remembered that night. He was silent for a while and then said “no.
” I asked him if he remembered the conversation that followed in the kitchen that night. He said he did. Since then, I have had some very strange happenings in my life that I cannot explain or prove.
I have had even weirder dreams. Sometimes I want to go through memory regression to remember what happened in the apparent missing time periods. Then I think “maybe you can’t remember for a reason” and I become unreasonably scared.
Another odd thing about that night, my dad had dogs, the neighborhood had a lot of dogs and we also had game fighting roosters and hens, they would bark and the chickens would cackle at almost any disturbance. They were all silent that night and no one else was at home that night down our entire road. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date is approximate.
PD)).
Kernersville, 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 | 5 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Kernersville, 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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July | 4 reported sightings | 26.67% of all reports |
September | 3 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
May | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
March | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Kernersville, 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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Thursday | 5 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Friday | 3 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Monday | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Wednesday | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Kernersville, 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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09/15/77 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
07/21/08 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
03/16/16 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
02/15/07 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
11/24/11 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Kernersville, 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 | 8 reported sightings | 53.33% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 4 reported sightings | 26.67% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Kernersville, North Carolina
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Kernersville, North Carolina.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2022 | 1 UFO Reports | Kernersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2022 |
2016 | 1 UFO Reports | Kernersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2016 |
2013 | 1 UFO Reports | Kernersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2013 |
2012 | 4 UFO Reports | Kernersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2012 |
2011 | 1 UFO Reports | Kernersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2011 |
2010 | 1 UFO Reports | Kernersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2010 |
2009 | 1 UFO Reports | Kernersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2009 |
2008 | 1 UFO Reports | Kernersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2008 |
2007 | 1 UFO Reports | Kernersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2007 |
2005 | 1 UFO Reports | Kernersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2005 |
1997 | 1 UFO Reports | Kernersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 1997 |
1977 | 1 UFO Reports | Kernersville, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 1977 |
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