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Salisbury, North Carolina UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 24 UFO sighting reports in Salisbury, North Carolina to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "circle" (6 reports, 25.00% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 20.83% of total).
- Tuesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (7 reports, 29.17% of total).
- 2001 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 12.50% of total).
- 01/23/01 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 8.33% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (14 reports, 58.33% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Salisbury, North Carolina
These Salisbury, 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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Unexplained blinking lights: Ring alarm said person detected. Our Ring doorbell captured event as person detected. When I watched back the film I didn’t see anyone however there was 2 blinking lights 10 feet from the ground facing the house with movement and then it appeared to go behind a pine tree we have at the corner of the house.
The lights were very bright and could still be seen. Video clip was 30 seconds.
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Saw spear or teardrop structure streaming across the sky with a vapor trail and cast off glare from the rising sun. The object was heading east, north east.
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A circle was spinning and hovering with colorful flashing lights. A circle that was spinning with green, red, and blue lights. There was nothing supporting it and hovered for about one minute.
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3 fiery crimson orbs at low altitude 1 craft initiayly. Fiery red orb (assumed as a helicopter from distance) passed over slowly at low altitude. No flashing lights to indicate object as an aircraft or drone.
No accompanying sound, completely silent. Ascended into clouds. 12 seconds later 2 more identical craft followed and ascended in the same fashion.
Objects were illuminated with a dark crimson hue, glow was bright in center with an exterior similar that of a low burning flame. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Watched a helicopter tailing an unidentified aircraft. The UFO used no light blinking systems and made no sound. All we heard was one helicopter at full throttle chasing an orb of light that was moving at a much faster and controlled speed.
((NUFORC Note: Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Aircraft flying low and fast with lights out of sync. I was just outside with a friend and we watched what was either several aircraft pass one at a time or just one flying the same area over and over - the lights were out of sync (two solid, one red blinking, and another blinking at a different, faster interval). It/they were flying above cloud level, but big enough to see all the separate lights, and moving very quickly.
We kept seeing the same thing over and over coming from north and east, all headed south-west. I'm quite familiar with the typical flight paths of the local planes, as I see them every day, and this was not normal. I entered a duration of 15 minutes, but that's only as long as I was outside.
I saw the first one as soon as I stepped out, and they were still going when I went inside.
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During the night, I came across 4-5 disks of light circling, each other in flight. While walking to my girlfriends house I saw disks of light circling each other since it was near Halloween I thought they were just decorations but they seemed to follow me. They kept ahead of me and every so often they would disappear.
Eventually I noticed that they were doing a pattern (they circled each other and then came together to for one spinning disk with thick edges). I know they weren't just flood lights or something related because they kept following me for about half a mile and always kept about the same distance in front of me. Eventually I was offered a ride and made it to my girlfriend's house and after that I kind of forgot about them.
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Small, Circular UFO spotted and moves once camera flashes Went outside and saw a circular ball of bright yellow/orange light. It stayed in the same place for about 8 minutes and after grabbing the camera and flashing it twice, the UFO moved South, towards Charlotte, at a very high speed. Even though you could see in the distance, the light just disappeared almost immediately after it started moving.
Same sighting has been spotted countless times in Lake Waccamaw, NC.
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up to 3 objects spotted now for 2 years. would love to have answers!! My husband and I have been noticing these objects for 2 years. Just the other nigh 10/22/12.
I finally was able to get a few up close photos. I t has never been within distance for my camera to pick up. I cannot get the camcorder to pick it up, buy as I said, we finally got some shots.
It's usually between 10-1am we spot them. We have seen as many as 3 at a time. What caught our eyes to eyes to begin with, it's extremely bright so you can't miss it.
You then will notice either a green air blue light along with red & orange only when it's bobbling then goeIs to the left then to the right then it will make a cone type shape with a bright white light then shoot strait up.It ill repeat the process . I.
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10 to 15 red string of lights, then started moving and eventually moved individually and dissappeared behind a cloud. My son, his friend and I were coming home after an Intemidators minor league baseball game around 10 pm on saturday June 2nd. I saw what I thought was a new tower with several lights.
However, the tower seemed to have lights to spread at the top on both sides which made me curious. I told the boys to look at it and they were amazed. It appeared that the lights began to move.
They were a red color and circular in shape. They seemed to start spreading out in different directions and it was very weird. We arrived home and I went in to get my husband to come see.
There was only 1 or 2 left in the sky at that time, but he did see one. My son and his friend said the others had moved to one spot in the sky behind a cloud and dissappeared. As we watched the last one move toward the same area as the others, it seemed to flicker.
It then reached the same area and dissappeared in as cloud and did not come out on the other side. We of course wondered about airplanes but there would not be that many planes that close together or moving in different directions. We also thought maybe helocopters, but did not think again that there would be that many that close together.
There was also no sound at all. If anyone has any explanation, I would like to know it. Also, if anyone knows of any weather balloons or chinese lanterns in the area, I would like to know.
I've never really thought of ufo's and think there must be a logical explanation, but so far I have none. I tried to report to the local television station but they did not seem interested. I also called the police station.
They were nice and polite but were equally inthused. Please continue your investigation in my area. It is Salisbury, close to China Grove, NC.
Thank You for your time.
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Low flying light emits blue neon trail and vanishes About 7:00pm last night, me and a friend were pulling out of his driveway, when we saw a yellow light similar to a light on a plane fly over the tree line from right to left. Exact direction was unknown and it was at about a 45 degree angle in the sky. At first we thought it was a plane, but there was no noise coming from the object.
We knew there would have to be as this object couldn’t have been more than 100-200 yards up. As we were discussing what it could be, a blue neon looking trail emitted from the object. At ground level this blue beam looked about 5-6 inches long, but had to have been close to 50 feet.
When this blue beam emitted from it (at this point the light was in plain sight, near no tree line) it vanished and could not be located again. When we returned we saw low flying helicopters in the area. We don’t know if they were in any relation to what we saw.
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blue light over salisbury NC I was walking my dogs when I looked up and saw a light in the sky. It first appeared to be a plane then it made a sharp turn and started heading south. It was moving in almost a zigzaging motion.
Then a military plane flew overhead. The UFO took another sharp turn and started to head west. The plane did not follow.
The object went behind trees and i lost sight of it.
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About 2 miles ahead of me in the sky I noticed an object hovering. After about 3 seconds it darted very quickly a few times then up. In light of recent events in Congress, I have decided to share my story because I feel that it does closely align with what Commander David Fravor witnessed.
In 2009 I was 18 years old, and at the time I was parked at my friend’s boyfriend’s house and sitting in my car, waiting for her to arrive. As I was waiting I noticed a fat, oval shaped dark object in the sky about 2 miles (maybe) in front of me. It appeared small because of how far away it was.
It was just hovering. I leaned forward and stared at it trying to figure out what it was, and after 4 or so seconds it darted VERY quickly to the right then left (as I remember- it could have been left first, then right), then it went straight up in a vertical line and out of my field of vision. It left no exhaust trail.
When I saw my friends a few minutes later I told them what I saw and they laughed at me so I haven’t told anyone other than my husband a few years ago. He actually believed me. To my knowledge I have never hallucinated anything.
It most definitely was not a bug, bird, or plane that I saw, as it moved in a way that we would not be capable of engineering. I don’t remember exactly where he lived but I know it was in Cleveland, NC, and the craft would’ve been over either trees or farmland most likely. I just wanted to report this in case you had other reports from that area.
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7 UNKOWN AIRBORN OBJECT'S SEEN OVER SALISBURY NC.SEARCH GRID WITNESSED!!. My Wife and I were sitting on our BackYard swingCouch We were Facing a group of Tree's When I Noticed Seven Pea Size Blue-Gray AirBorn Object's Coming from The EAST And Heading Towards The WEST!,These Objects Seemed to be About 800 FEET UP and About 45 Miles an Hour!,They Flew Close Togather But,Not in Formation I Pointed The Objects to My Wife Who,Also Saw Them!,At First WE BOTH THOUGHT THEY WERE JUST BALLOONS!,SHE LOOKED AWAY BUT,WHEN THESE OBJECT PASSED A CHURCH LOT,THEY ALL SPLIT UP IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS AS IF DOING SOME KIND OF GRID SEARCH ABOVE THIS PROPERTY AS IF LOOKING FOR SOMETHING!,.
I RAN INTO THE HOUSE TO RETRIVE A CAMERA I HAD INSIDE BUT!,BY THE TIME I CAME BACK OUT THE UFO'S WERE GONE OR OUT OF SIGHT!.I SEARCHED THE SKY FOR A WHILE BUT SAW NOTHING MORE!.END OF REPORT!.
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Orange moving lights in the sky. So i was driving down the road to go meet some friends. I noticed a "star" in the sky.
I though to myself that is a bright orange star. Then the object got brighter and stated movin directly straight in my direction. In all honesty it was hualin ass.
Then this object came to a complete stand still and started pusling between a very bright orange and a white/orange. There is no way that a plane pulses like that and can move this way. I almost came to a stop in the car and another one appeared in the same way.
But, this one did not seem to race across the sky. It moved to the right away from the other light and then came to an immediate stop. These two had the same colors.
I am not a scientist but it seemed as if they were communicating with pulsing of lights. I kept driving and made it to my friends house. Two hours later I am driving back home and saw an orange light in the sky move so fast that the orange light streaked behing it.
Then the light came to a stand still very rapidly. No more the five seconds later two more lights appeared and they were stationary. They did not move from appearance to dissapearence.
and started flashing between colors again. All of the lights were lit up for no more than 15 seconds. When they dissapeared they just faded back to looking like a star and then the lights faded as if there was nothing even there.
I caled the local authorities to see if any one else had seen this strange sight. The lady I spoke with said that there were no other reports of these objects. I know what I saw and I want to find out why these "THINGS" are here or what they are doing.
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STRANGE SILVERY OBJECT HANG'S IN THE SKY DISPITE HIGH MARCH WIND'S!!. I WAS TRAVELING ALONG HIGH-WAY 29 WITH A FRIEND WHEN I NOTICED A SILVERY OBJECT HIGH IN THE SKY THROUGH MY FREINDS CAR WINDSHILD!,THIS OBJECT SEEM TO HOVER ABOVE THE CLOUDS IN THE BLUE SKY! THE WIND WAS AT LEAST 30-40 MILES AN HOUR BUT THE UFO DID NOT MOVE ONE BIT!!,IN FACT I LOST SIGHT OF IT TWICE AS WE PASSED BY SOME TREES BUT, EACH TIME THE OBJECT WAS STILL IN THE SAME LOCATION!,STILLHOVERING IN THE BLUE SKY ABOUT, HAFE A MILE UP!,I LOST SIGHT OF THE OBJECT ALL AT ONCE AS IF IT JUST VANISHED FROM SIGHT!.I'M SURE IT WAS NOT A PLANE OR A PLANET AS IT LOOKED SOMEWHAT CYLINDER SHAPED, MINUS ANY WINGS OR TAIL!.
FOR WANT OF A BETTER WORD,IT WAS A UFO!. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).
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Very Strange UFO Sighting!!!! It all took place so quick,But very strange On June 23,I was at home cleaning my kitchen.I was the only one home at the time, and I have four big windows in my kitchen When something caught my eye.As I looked out the window I noticed an object in the shape of disk appear from no where it was half visable and the other half invisable,I could tell it was rotating in a clock wise motion from the part that was visiable to the eye.
It was flying lower than anything I have ever seen.And this was my second ufo encounter.Now after seeing that I wonder if these strange objects are around us more than we know.
I would also like to add that it was silver color with a glow of blue like a halo around the part that was visiable.And after just a few seconds it vanished as fast as it appread.It was so strange to this day I`m always wondering if someone or something is watching me.
I have not told this to anyone,because they would not believe me anyway.But I have read other ufo sightings by lots of people so I know that they saw something just like I did. If anyone eles has seen something like that I would like to know about it! ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate.
PD)).
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The object was stationary, possibly 300-400 feet in the air and less than 1/4 mile away. We were facing west. The object appeared to be blinking to the naked eye.
We used a pair of binoculars to get a closer look and found the object was not blinking but changing colors. The colors were bluish, greenish and an amber color. It was bright enough not to be able to make out the shape.
It stayed in the first location approximately 10 minutes and then disappeared as if it's lights went out. After about 2 minutes, it re-appeared in a location about 1/4 mile to the southwest of it's first location. It stayed stationary for about 5 minutes.
All of a sudden it streaked off so fast to the south and in less than a second it was gone. The object was about 5 times the size of a plane. There were numerous commercial aircraft flying high above.
This is how we determined the size.
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red light got larger as it dissapeared behind woods I saw a red light starting to dissapear behind some trees, and the longer I watched(I was driving my car) the larger the red light became, the last time I saw it, it was larger than a half-dollar. ((NUFORC Note: A second report from same witness follows. PD)) one red light that got bigger I turned onto Safrit Road and I saw a small red light, and as it started to dissapear behind the trees, it was getting bigger,and at the last view, it was bigger than a half-dollar at arms lenght, it moved very fast, and it was very red, I tried to get a better view, but it had dissapeared behind the woods.
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I felt a strange presence around me as I was driving and looked up to see a saucer directly above my car. To whom it may concern, I have previously made this rep[ort some months ago. It was rejected because I could not give an exact date or even the year.
I knew that it was in the winter and I knew the time because of a meeting I was going to that meets at 8pm. regularly. However I was unsure of an axact month or even the year.
I knew it was between 2001 and 2002 and it was in either January or February. Upon speaking with a friend about UFO's and about my experience,I have re-thought the date of my siting. I believe that it was in January of 2001, to the best of my recollection.
Anyway, that is my best guess. That is all this reporting site has asked me for, so if this report is not accepted then I will not try again. I was surprised when the report was rejected because I could not give an exact date, especially when I seen a report from a man who claimed to see UFO's in the 1970's with no specific dates of the sitings.
I found the reply to be insulting, particularly when this site is supposed to be looking for reports from people. I am not looking for any special recognition or for anything for that matter, accept to be believed, however, if I am not, than so be it. With all this said I will report what I seen one last time.
I was traveling down Main Street in Salisbury, heading to an AA meeting, of which I had been a sober member for many years at the time and still am. It was just before 8pm and I was just going to make it on time because I was running late. I noticed that the street became suddenly and very strangely deserted, even for a street Salisbury, which is not a large city.
I felt a very errie presence that I find hard to describe. I did not know where it was coming from. Somehow I felt that this presence was around my car and felt that I could not shake it even though I was driving and was in motion.
I looked around in all directions but saw nothing. I knew there was a definate presence though. Finally I looked up to see, directly above me, a saucer.
I stopped the car immediately and it stopped as well. It then took off in a slight foward motion from my car and angled upward where it dissapeared into the sky at lightening speed. I remember seeing it become smaller and smaller until it dissapeared into the sky.
It was a metallic blue/silver color and had an aura about it. The lighting about it appeared to fluctuate, although there were no actual lights on it or that were coming from it.I could not tell how large or small it was or how close or far above me it was, only that it was above me.
My guess is that it was closer rather than further away and that it was not particularly large. Well, that is my siting report and that is what I had seen.I have never before or since seen anything like that.
Thank you for your time. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).
Salisbury, 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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Circle | 6 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Light | 4 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Disk | 3 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Unknown | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Salisbury, 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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June | 5 reported sightings | 20.83% of all reports |
February | 4 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
October | 3 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
January | 3 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
July | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
August | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Salisbury, 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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Tuesday | 7 reported sightings | 29.17% of all reports |
Saturday | 6 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Thursday | 4 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Monday | 3 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Sunday | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Friday | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Salisbury, 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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01/23/01 | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
10/22/12 | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
08/20/20 | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
02/25/01 | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
06/02/12 | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Salisbury, 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 | 14 reported sightings | 58.33% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 4 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 3 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
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