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Pittsboro, North Carolina UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 12 UFO sighting reports in Pittsboro, North Carolina to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (5 reports, 41.67% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 25.00% of total).
- Monday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 33.33% of total).
- 2008 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 16.67% of total).
- 04/01/91 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 8.33% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (6 reports, 50.00% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Pittsboro, North Carolina
These Pittsboro, 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:
Multiple distant lights in sky; moving in quick bursts, in ENE direction, pretty close together, but on individually erratic paths. Talking on phone to my father; sitting outside. Looking up at night sky.
Stars. Airplane lights. Suddenly saw a light that looked like an airplane light, but moved in almost a "jump" to another nearby location.
At first thought it was just change of flight direction of an airplane high-up, causing me to perceive it as a jump. But realized that I had not lost sight of the light for even a moment during this supposed "turn" and it did seem to jump. In other words, I didn't see an arc of movement as if the light had been an airplane executing a turn during which its headlights would be visible to me the entire time.
The light seemed to jump just a few degrees in the sky. I thought perhaps my old eyes were playing tricks on me, so blinked and focused on the light again. Then noticed that there were several other similar lights around it---maybe a total of 5-7 lights.
They were all moving erratically, not in the smooth lines that you associate with aircraft flight. And if they had been aircraft, they were flying dangerously close to each other.especially given the speed with which they were executing those jumpy, erratic movements.
They were all moving as a mass of jumpy lights in the general direction of ENE. They soon flew into a part of the sky that I couldn't see because of the tree canopy.
Full Report Text:
(bright, round, white object [1/2 magnitude of Venus] with a much smaller [dimmer] object tethered below and swinging conical Monday May 4, 2020 8:05 PM UFO sighting (bright, round, white object [1/2 magnitude of Venus] with a much smaller [dimmer] object tethered below and swinging conically. Sunset 8:07 pm Pittsboro, NC Object lost light @ 8:44 pm ENE @ Aprox 50° to 55° Same location as last star in tail of Big Dipper now (8:51 pm) Approximate location right at Sunset which was 8:07 p.m.
Altitude 55 degrees Azmith 53 degrees.
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Very bright light covering my bathroom skylight. On the morning of July 5, 2018, approximately at 4.12 am I woke up as usual to go use a bathroom.
As I sat on my bed, I saw a BRIGHT light coming from the sky lights in my bathroom to by bedroom. My bathroom is in my bedroom. The light went all the way behind a corner in my bedroom and created a rectangle.
I was puzzled but I got up and went into the bathroom to look what was going on. As I walked into the bathroom I saw VERY sharp and bright light right above the sky light. I had to shield my eyes from the brightness.
I could see only sharp blue/white light covering the whole window. It reminded me movies about aliens where people have to shield their eyes because of the brightness. However, I lost the next 10 minutes.
I only remember waking up and sitting back on my bed. Still looking at the bright light. I turned my back to it and went to sleep.
This whole time my inner voice was telling me to 'just go to sleep'. I woke up to go to work at 5.20 am and the light was gone.
I have no idea why I did not wake my husband up or did not take pictures. I just had this very happy feeling. On July 6th, 2018, at 4.
23 am the light was there again, but in distance. It was not covering my window. This time I took pictures.
first I thought it was a full moon, however, on July 8, 2018 I took a picture of the moon and found out that it was not full moon.
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I just want to start off by saying that I have never thought that this would happen to me!!! I was home with my mother and my daughter, everything was fine, until my mother and I went outside to take the dog out and heard something in the woods. I live in a very wooded area but it's right off of a main highway. We both heard something that sounded like 2-3 deer running but in the area that the sound came from has a very large fenced area so I don't see how this is possible.
Afterwards we both just thought that we must had misjudged the position of the sound and laughed it off. Well my front porch has more light then the back so being that we don't smoke in the house and after hearing what we both heard we had gone to the front porch to have a smoke. We both had sat down on the front porch and we love looking at the stars, and we both had seen the same thing.
To the left of the tree line there was a very bright 3 sided shape in the sky??? It was bright enough that I had gotten up and turned the front porch light off so we could see it better. A few minutes passed and the object then started to move very slowly, we both had thought that this was just our eyes playing tricks on us, but then it started to get brighter and moved in a way the NO plane I have ever seen moved!!!!. We both continued to watch this object in the sky for over 30 minutes.
I actually got my phone out to record the thing and it wasn't there!!!! At this time I'm starting to feel stupid or crazy and them my mother grabs my hand and says" look up" I looked up and I can not even began to explain the fear!!!! There were 3 of the same size objects over the front of my house!!!! Now they were not close enough to us that I felt like we were under attack but they were still there, and the original object was still not in sight. At this point I'm getting ready to put my mother and my daughter in the car and go anywhere but here!!!!! My mother stopped me from going in the house and points to the spot were the first object had appeared, and there it was!!!! Now there are 4 objects in the sky and I can believe what I'm seeing, we both watched the sky for over 2-3 hours and the objects got brighter and moved and then would just disappear, but the first object was the only one that moved in such a way that I still can't believe!!!! I have watched the x files loved the show, but this is the craziest thing I have ever seen!!!! I went outside tonight just to look and there is nothing in the sky were I had seen the first object and it just doesn't make sense!!!! I don't what to sound crazy but damn!!!!! I hope that someone else out there has seen this, too.
Full Report Text:
We did not get a very good look at this object. I am only reporting this in case someone who got a better look does also so that their case has more validity. We saw a bright red light above the tree line.
It appeared too large to be a plane and it was not blinking. I apologize for the vagueness and realize it could be a million different man-made things.
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Bright light with irregular flight pattern and speed. Light, comparable to a commercial jets headlights when they are flying towards you to the northwest of my location, 10-15 degrees above the horizon. Stood still for about 1 minute, then began heading right, stopped, went up and did a circle vertical to the ground.
Went right about 15 degrees, instantly went back to the left and disappeared, speed was about twice as fast as you would see a jet flying over at high altitude, kept same light brightness, looked at it through a rifle scope and could only see a light, not sure about distance but I was in an 80 acre field in the rural country and seemed to be very far off.
Full Report Text:
Silent craft with Red, White, and Blue lights seen over Pittsboro, NC on March, 16 2010 I was sitting in a chair in front of my desk while talking on my cell phone to my father. I was looking out my two rear bedroom windows into the dark when I noticed some very odd lights out in the woods above a house on the other side of our neighborhood pond. It was very dark but you could still see the dark outlines of the pine trees in the woods and the lights from the neighboring houses.
The flying lights reminded me of a police car’s lights and I thought I was catching a reflection in the window glass from the room behind me. My son’s bedroom was directly behind me and a police officer lives up a road right in front of my house. The mail box the police officer uses is also right across the road from my house.
The lights were almost standing still and then moved very slowly to the left. I wondered what the police car was up to so I turned around to see out windows in the front of the house. That’s when I was shocked by the fact that my bedroom do! or was closed and that what I was looking at was not a reflection.
I stood up and put my face and hands to the glass to block all reflections from other lights in my room and I saw clearly a large set of lights in a very strange configuration moving very slowly to the left over my neighbors house. There were three colors of lights. The largest lights were a pair of rectangular almost square lights.
The light on the right was bright blue and the light connected to it on the left was bright white. Both of these lights were very bright and the shape was very clear. Two small red lights were above these lights, one on the left and one on the right.
One small red light was in the center on the bottom. The whole thing looked like a mixed up set of tail lights on the rear end of a car. I was talking to my father the whole time and he said that I was starting to worry him.
I described what I saw to him and he said go outside to see if I could hear anything. I went out my! back door onto my porch and stood on my picnic table. I coul! d still see the objects lights very clearly.
The set of lights moved slowly, there was absolutely no noise. I continued to talk to my father and I was getting very excited. I knew that what I was seeing had to be something very odd maybe a UFO.
I was convinced of this by the slow speed, the distinct shape of lights, the brightness of the lights, and the dead silence. The lights then moved on to the left behind a larger set of pine trees. When I moved my head back and forth I could still catch glimpses of it.
The lights then started to come back to the right and then the moved back to the left even further until I could not see it at all. While I was standing on my picnic table talking to my father after the lights vanished, I saw the small white lights of an airplane way up in the sky. The light was minute compared to what I had just seen in the woods.
I listened and I could hear the airplanes engines. That made me sure I had seen a flying craft that made absolutely no no! ise.
Full Report Text:
As a sixty-year old, i oftentimes wake up in the middle of the night-unable to sleep. Last week, (i wrote down somewhere the exact date), I lay outside on the lawnchair and gazed at the night sky. I adore the magic of clouds and stars and the feelings that come to me.
Anyway, i was gazing into the eastern sky, unobstructed by any trees, when a brilliant "Flash" occurred at a forty-five degree angle. The distance is indeterminant but it must have been very, very far because it was silent and yet quite large--far larger than either Sirius, the brightest star, or venus the planet. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
One brillian pin-point of light appeared, without a trail or tail ,then dissappeared Lying comfortably on a reclining lawn chair at 3:30 in the a.m.,I had awoken and was enjoying the clear sky and the few scattered clouds.
Facing east, almost due east at about a thirty to fourty degree angle a brilliant flash of light occurred. I am not stating this was a craft, but it was certainly unlike any meteor i have witnessed for several reasons: (one) it had no trail, but appeared as a brilliant flash (2)that faded. No colors really.
No smoke, no noise, no residuals. slighty, into nothing. It could have been a star Nova!.
i have no clue as to the distance.(3) the magnitude or luminescent--at least equal to the first magnitude star: Sirius,slightly less than Venus appears. The thought occurred to me that it could have been a man-made satellite which was destroyed, or an exploded missile.
Isn't anyone interested?. My credentials as an objective, and clear-headed observor might be mentioned;for almost twenty years I was employed as a patent research specialist, examining drawings and diagrams at quite rapid speeds; my judgements and analysis based upon my perceptions of what i discerned fulfilled my vocation.
Full Report Text:
Unexplained object moving SW to NE over North Carolina skies, tracked via refractor telescope/ computerized mount December 10, 2007 (written 2130 hrs) To whom it may concern, I am an amateur astronomer and was observing here in my observatory at my home in Pittsboro, N.C., observing a double star in the constellation Delphinus.
At approximately 1845, I spotted a green hue in the SW skies near the Messier object M15, approximately 45 degrees above the SW horizon. It appeared to be a comet; I quickly slewed my telescope to the object, and viewed it at a magnification of 100X. The object was traveling at a high rate of speed, but much slower than a normal satellite when viewed through a telescope eyepiece field of view.
The object contained what appeared to be a head and a tail (very much like Haley’s comet looked years ago through a pair of binoculars), and its magnitude was so bright that it was dominant in the sky. There was also a point of light that moved with the object at the same speed, approximately one tenth of a degree from the “head” of the object. I tracked the object for approximately 45 minutes, the “tail” faded (almost appeared to dissipate over time), but the point of light near the haze remained in the eyepiece, it’s magnitude and position not changing over the period of time that it was tracked.
The object passed very close to the star Schedar in the constellation Cassiopeia. I stopped tracking the object as it passed through the constellation Cassiopeia at approximately 1935 hrs. The object continued to move in a NE direction at approximately 60 degrees above the northern horizon.
The Telescope I was using to track the “object” was a Telescope Engineering Company (TEC) 200mm (8 inch) f/9 refractor, mounted on a Astro-Physics 1200gto computerized equatorial mount. The object was tracked by moving the Declination and Right ascension axis in a manual mode. ((NUFORC Note: Missile venting fuel in space.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
Bright Green light, square shape While driving home from VA, across NC on route 64 heading west. The night was clear, no clouds. I was driving.
In conversation with my husband, I looked over at him and saw through the window, what appeared to be a falling star, I told him to look and make a wish. It then got very large, very quickly, as it apeared to move out of the open sky and through the trees off to our left. In the decent thhe object turned bright green and was square in shape, we watched it decend (We were going 65 miles per hour) off to our left into the farm country.
It was a quick but profound experience that has left us wondering what on earth it was!!!!.
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4 white spheres, seen early night, over Jordan Lake, from corner of Andrews Store Rd. & Chapel Hill Rd. I was going for ride with ex-husband.
We lived on Jack Bennett st., and we had stopped in Cruizer’s gas state for the car to get gas, and husband to get cup of coffee. It was a clear night, no nasty weather.
I was sitting at the entrance of the gas state, waiting for the road to be clear (going to make a right hand turn onto Chapel Hill Rd.), and while I was waiting I just looked up at the sky and noticed the 4 lights. They were: one larger sphere (about twice as big as smaller ones) and 3 smaller ones that were in the positions of “7 o’clock”, “5 o’clock”, and “3 o’clock”, when compared the center large sphere.
They were glowing a perfect white that was nearly bluish, and weren’t flashing, only had that strange flickering as though the air between us was moving their light. The center sphere stood perfectly still, as did the one at 7-o’clock but the other 2 had a strange way that they were moving towards each other: one second they were motionless, then they disappeared and then one second later were glowing again, only they were barely closer together. They continued to flash closer like this for a minute or so.
I pointed them out to the husband, was like “huh… do you see that? What the hell are they.” He said, “huh!” as well, but we honestly didn’t think too much about them, just made our right onto Chapel Hill Rd., and went for our drive.
I know they are un-flashy, but I can never figure out what they were. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).
Pittsboro, 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 | 41.67% of all reports |
Other | 2 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Pittsboro, 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 | 25.00% of all reports |
March | 2 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
July | 2 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Pittsboro, 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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Monday | 4 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Saturday | 3 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Tuesday | 2 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Sunday | 2 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Thursday | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Pittsboro, 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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04/01/91 | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
03/26/17 | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
07/05/18 | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
05/04/20 | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
05/10/08 | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Pittsboro, 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 | 6 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 3 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 2 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Pittsboro, North Carolina
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Pittsboro, North Carolina.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2022 | 1 UFO Reports | Pittsboro, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2022 |
2020 | 1 UFO Reports | Pittsboro, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2020 |
2018 | 1 UFO Reports | Pittsboro, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2018 |
2017 | 1 UFO Reports | Pittsboro, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2017 |
2016 | 1 UFO Reports | Pittsboro, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2016 |
2015 | 1 UFO Reports | Pittsboro, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2015 |
2010 | 1 UFO Reports | Pittsboro, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2010 |
2008 | 2 UFO Reports | Pittsboro, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2008 |
2007 | 2 UFO Reports | Pittsboro, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2007 |
1991 | 1 UFO Reports | Pittsboro, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 1991 |
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