All Reported UFO Sightings in Raleigh, North Carolina

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Driving north on NC-540, we noticed a dark object hovering over highway. We saw a second smaller object pass through or behind it. My son and I were driving north on NC-540 heading to a soccer game at around 11:30 AM.

We drive this route often and I am used to seeing aircraft take off from and land at RDU airport near this spot of the highway. As I watched a plane take off from RDU heading northwest from several miles away, a much smaller dark object hovering in the sky caught my eye because it was between us and the plane. At first I assumed it was a large bird (they are common in our area) but then as we got closer, it seemed to be much larger than a bird, perhaps the size of a truck.

I then thought it was a cluster of black balloons that were tied together. But it was stationary, hovering roughly 200-250 feet directly over the highway without drifting. We steadily approached it driving 70 mph and eventually reached directly underneath it.

My son used his phone to capture video as both of us watched a second smaller object (same color--dark and solid) approach the larger hovering object. The small object appeared to either go through the larger object or go behind it. This occurred just a few seconds before we passed directly underneath it, at which point my son tried to capture it by moving his phone camera to look through our car's moon roof, and we could see we were still passing directly beneath it.

That was the end of our sighting as we could not safely stop, nor could we make a detour to find it because we were running late to his soccer game. As we continued on NC-540 toward our destination (WRAL Soccer Complex on the northeast side of Raleigh), we saw a large helicopter, which looked military to me, heading away from Raleigh in the direction of I-95/Wilson.

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A silent orange light flew low and quickly in a straight line due north along Gorman St. and vanished in a wink. On Thursday, 02/08/2024, around 10:30 PM, I was opening the trunk of my car at an apartment complex on the 1500 block of Gorman Street, when I noticed an orange light in the sky.

It was to my left (west) maybe a few blocks over, about 50-60 degrees up in the sky, and moving due north at a consistent speed. I turned and looked, thinking it was a low-flying helicopter or plane. There was no noise, aside from the sound of some light traffic coming and going.

The object was bright orange, but its glow was dull like the setting sun (not like bright headlights or streetlights) with a consistent luminosity throughout the light. There may have been some structure to it, but if there was, it was obscured by the glow of the circular light. There were no aviation lights (white,red, or green) or other lights visible.

The light may have had a slow, slight pulse around the edge but did not blink at all. It flew north in a straight line along Gorman Street, faded very slightly for a fraction of a second, and "blinked" out of existence mid-flight without slowing down. The light moved at pace maybe slightly faster than a car; it did not seem to vary in altitude, speed or direction at any point from when I first notice it until its sudden disappearance.

It appeared to be several hundred feet above the treetops, and maybe the size of a small car or plane. Again, it was completely silent. There was no consistent breeze, and the sky was 100% clouded over.

I instinctively reached for my phone, but it wasn't in my pocket so I watched the light for several (as little as 3 or 4, maybe as long as 7-8) seconds before it disappeared suddenly. I stood and watched to see if it would return or if there were other lights, but I didn't see anything. Around 10 minutes later, I was standing on my back porch and noticed a helicopter a few miles to the north and another several miles west of me.

I could hear both of them and clearly see their aviation lights, so I know whatever flew by was not a helicopter or plane.

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Saw an orb looking craft over my house At home and seen an orb looking craft zooming by. Very quite. I couldn’t believe my eyes.

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Saw an object that was moving much faster than airplanes (we have a lot of planes) and it was moving fast and like it was flipping I thought I saw something flashing in the sky but it's daytime and I focused in on something that appeared at best guess to be a cigar like shape that was flipping end over end and the flashing was where the sun was catching it. We have a lot of planes go by as we aren't far from the airport but this didn't look like any plane I've seen and it was going much faster than any plane I've watched. It was heading north.

More than a minute later I thought I could hear a jet coming up, but I waited and didn't see a jet and that sound went away I was thinking I was about to see something following it but I didn't.

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Falling object and two possible aircraft While driving west on Lynn Rd I noticed what I originally thought was a meteor. It appeared to be something falling with a tail lit up behind it. I also noticed 2 small objects to the right of the falling object.

I thought they were small planes watching from a safe distance what was happening. They were just lights or light reflecting from the sun off of them. Instantly one of the small lights disappeared, and then the other did as well.

The falling object made a steep change towards the opposite direction and continued to fall. I watched as I turned north on Leesville Rd until the trees obstructed my view. I took a picture on my phone of the falling object from my car.

The object appears just above the lower trees on the left. You have to zoom in to see it. It looks like a fuzzy streak and that distance.

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A star that moves it appears daily but doesn’t appear some nights also duplicates then just disappears A star that changes colors. And duplicates.

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Pi shaped object or light in the afternoon sky There was a white light or object in the afternoon sky shaped like the pi symbol. It was hovering or stagnant initially. Then we noticed it disappear and it reappeared across the sky moving horizontally but smaller.

This occurred 3 times and it was gone. It was a clear day in NC with no visible clouds.

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I saw something hovering in the air with light all around and there was a blue light As I was driving home for work I saw an object hovering which was the first one that I sent so it has light all around with a blue light below the object as I was driving I seen two more hovering in the air with the exact same thing with white lights surrounding the object then there was blue lights under the object just like the first object that was seen so I wanted to pull over in front of the homes to record but there were homes and I didn't want to record for someone to think that I'm recording their home and they end up calling 911 so that's all the information for now.

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I was outside during working a catering event and decided to take a picture of the sky,not knowing what I took until hours later. I took a picture of the evening sky,while I was working a catering event. I noticed the bright lights,but thought they were just stars,until I viewed the images hours later.

After zooming in you can see the disk shapes.

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Small dark sphere-shaped car-sized craft traveling just below the clouds at a consistent pace with sound, no tail, no lights. I was laying in a chair at the pool at my apartment and noticed a small black sphere traveling just below the clouds. The object made no sound, had no tail, no lights, and was about the size of a car.

I watched it travel at a consistent pace and altitude heading Northward. It was so quite that no one else noticed it. I tried to record it, but my phone was overheating from being in the sun.

It was definitely not a drone and it definitely wasn't an airplane.

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Shiny contrail-less craft following jet airliner I was admiring tonight's amazing sunset as I walked my dogs. A passing jet had just added a beautiful arcing contrail to the scene and I thought to take a photo of it. Before I could get my phone out of my pocket, however, I saw another craft right behind it.

It was extremely shiny and angular. I could not make out much more as I only saw it for seconds (it was nowhere to be seen by the time I got out my phone). What caught my eye was that it seemed to be near the airliner but left no contrail of its own.

I am a Navy veteran and familiar with all types of aircraft. I am also a drone pilot and do not believe this was a drone. In the photo, the craft would have been in the sky in the area directly above the porch light and slightly below the contrail.

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Silent triangular craft seen flying over Raleigh My wife and I were walking in our neighborhood and noticed a triangle of lights flying silently in the same direction we were waking (southeast). There were three solid warm white lights at the corners, with a red light in the center of the triangle blinking at a steady interval. I only made out the lights but my wife says she could see the outline of the craft.

It was flying roughly SE before banking south. We continued to watch it fly south towards downtown Raleigh until it went out of view beyond the tree line. Another regular looking aircraft was present flying in a normal northward flight path.

Other aircrafts were seen in the area after, but none seemed unusual and all were in typical flight paths for this area. There is generally a lot of air traffic in this area. Observers were two mid-30s adults who are working professionals.

We were able to record a video of the craft, though it was difficult to see the details in the video. We are not interested in releasing the rights to this footage at this time.

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I saw a very bright object starting up down left right very fast and very high above the clouds Bright white light that seemed oval darting in different directions up down left right came forward towards me then went in front of me but this was very high in the sky it was just a fast darting light that didn’t move like anything should move and was traveling a long distance in a short time. It seemed oval or like it was leaving a trail of light when it would jump to a different location, It wasn’t just a round bright light moving was very high very fast and ovaly.

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This was caught on my RING camera but I can only seem to get 2 seconds of about 25++ seconds downloaded This was caught on my RING door bell camera. This is at actual speed so definitely not a shooting star. There was one bright light moving very slowly at 2:35 am on 1/15/22 out my front door.

I am new at the RING camera so for some reason I could only download 2 seconds but I do have the full video of about 25++++ seconds on my ring app.

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String of lights over Raleigh near falls lake Near Falls Lake walked out of the house. Wife looked up and said "what's that". I said probably birds.

She then said "birds that have lights?" Conditions sparse clouds, dark. Second look I could see a string of lights heading west to east in an subtle arc. Moving at a pace probably double to triple a commercial airliner.

Evenly spaced if I held a ruler to the sky I would say 1/2 inch apart from my vantage point. Some were a little higher than others all moving steady in the same direction. When they hit a certain spot in the sky they disappeared one by one as if going behind a curtain.

They came into view in the west about 25% (1/4 distance from horizon) across the night sky disappearing at about the same point in the east. My 18 year old son also saw this. We tried to film it but it came out too dark to see.

The lights were very very high in the sky.

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I saw a large solid black circle next to a cloud parking my car. It was perfectly still and did not move. I continued to stare at it and then it started to appear to shrink into itself and completely disappearing.

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On Saturday afternoon, December 26, 2020, Flt.#3763, en route from Columbia, SC, to Dulles International Airport, around 03:45 pm, at an altitude of 29,000 feet. I was a pilot flying, we saw an object (white or silver color, the approximate size of a football) for a fraction of a second (our airspeed was ~300 knots, suspected an object flew toward us), which flew front to back by our right side in very close proximity.

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I saw two lights moving in an irregular pattern. They were spaced too far apart to be connected on an airplane and I saw nothing connecting them, but they were moving perfectly in tandem. They were alternately fading in and out (one became brighter as the other faded out).

They eventually moved so that only one was visible above the trees - and that one moved suddenly in a different direction and then stationed in the sky. I was at an intersection and had to drive before I could see anything more.

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Bright white dots moving fast across the sky. It was 5:29 am and I looked up at the night sky. I saw one white dot moving across the sky.

It was moving very fast. It stayed solid and then flickered a little bit. It then turned back solid.

Another object moved right behind it at the same speed. There were about ten objects in one line moving at the same speed to the same place. There was no line connecting them.

There was then a break in the objects and a less bright light came slower from another direction following them. Then more of the bright objects came by. T his was repeated about 4-5 times.

They were all white and very bright. They looked like stars or satellites. However, I could not make out a distinct shape.

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On that Saturday afternoon, at approximately 13:30 hours, December 14, while walking in my neighborhood, I looked up as I usually do to watch for birds in tops of trees. In the clear sky ahead at about a 30 degree angle I saw 7-8 small perfect circles that were brilliant white. First several – 4 or 5 of them on the left side of the asymmetrical group appeared to bounce.

Then one perfect circle became elliptical and gray and appeared to join the right hand grouping of 3-4. For a second or two, they appeared to be in formation with four circles forming a rectangle and three circles following as they moved slowly to the left and then suddenly disappeared. Sorry to have submitted twice but I think I inadvertently reported two different dates on the first submission.

It was Saturday afternoon, December 14, 2019 at 3:30 in the afternoon.