All Reported UFO Sightings in Wilmington, North Carolina

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9 Fireballs/Lights Seen to the Northeast of Wilmington NC Just before 2am on 8/6/2023 I spotted 9 objects in the sky to the Northeast of Wilmington NC. I first spotted two objects, one trailing the other from West to East. The speed of the objects made me think they may have been some types of Satellites as their speed matched other known Satellites and the ISS track speeds.

The appearance seemed to suggest one of two things, either sunlight reflection off of a Satellite solar panel or the emission of thruster gases. The objects were moving too slow to be Meteors. Upon checking my security camera playback, I noticed that there were multiple objects traveling in the same general direction (West to East) that I had not seen before or after the two objects I saw with my own eyes.

Some of those objects were traveling across the path of the previous objects (going South to North). They were in the same general location in the sky looking Northeast from my location. I have previously seen multiple similar events over the last year and made an attempt to validate these objects with known Satellites but no data matched the events.

The brief flash of light on these objects had a fade-in/out effect and an average duration of 5 to 7 seconds. They never maneuvered, moved only in a straight line. I have also seen these object events towards the North-West direction and some have recorded seeing these types of events off the coast (over the ocean) in broad daylight over the last several months.

The objects emitted no sounds or sonic booms. Am unable to upload the event video due to the file size. Here is a link to my video: https://www.

youtube.com/watch?v=PFEnJToRlBQ.

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We first saw the object in the sky and thought it was a star or planet until it moved positions. The object moved positions in the sky and seemed to change shape. We took photos with a cell phone with Space Zoom.

It was really bright and seemed to emit an aura.

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Floating like object; changing shapes but seemed to revert to the same shapes. Noticed a darker object by itself in the sky. Looked like a super dark small cloud, it was cloudy here today.

We kept watching and it was almost staying in the same place until we noticed it moving slowly, changing shapes, and somewhat moving closer. Definitely moved closer, floating around until we lost sight of it in the woods behind us. At one point a small piece “ broke off” and continued near the larger section.

I would appreciate you letting me know what it was if you know.

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Observed a very slow moving unmarked cigar tube shaped craft moving in the air at very low altitude in straight East to West direction While driving home in my truck eastbound on 17th St. approaching its intersection with South College Rd., I looked out my driver's window in a northerly direction.

I observed a silvery-white cigar tube (rounded at "front", blunt at "tail") shaped craft that appeared to be lazily flying in a direct East to West direction. It was moving very slowly, perhaps 10-20 mph. The object had no visible stabilizers or wings.

It had no visible propulsion system e.g. propeller(s), or exhaust heat plume The craft had no markings, except for what I thought might be part of a tail fin, which was black and white.

Thinking about it, however, it probably was not a tail fin because of it's very low profile. The surface of the craft was smooth; there were no visible ribs. No landing gear was visible.

In short, it simply looked like a slow moving silver-white cigar tube. The object I observed was, as stated, moving very slowly through the air. The field in the background made it easier to see in profile.

It held steady at a very low altitude and I observed no vertical or horizontal drift. I looked at it for as long as I could, perhaps five seconds, then I looked back at the road, as this was rush hour. As soon as I could, perhaps seven seconds later, I looked back at the spot where I first observed the object, and it was gone.

I looked to the right and left of the object, but it was gone, like it vanished or something. There was a lone tree in the foreground situated where the object may have passed behind it, but it was moving so slowly, and was appreciably higher in the sky than the tree, that I would have been able to view part of the craft above the tree line. As it was, I looked directly at the tree and no part of the craft was visible.

As there was no point of reference to judge its distance from me, I cannot give an approximation of its length. I moved to Wilmington from Akron, OH, which is home to the "Spirit of Akron" blimp. I am very familiar with blimp features: the gondola, tethering cables, propeller engines, superstructure, windows and the "skin" of a blimp.

This was no blimp. It more closely resembled a dirigible, but had no gondola, visible propulsion system, or markings of any kind. In short, I don't have any idea of what it was or how it could have disappeared so quickly, almost as if it utilized some kind of "cloaking" technology.

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Very bright orange light just appeared as if a bright light bulb was turned on us. Lasted about a minute slight pulsating around the light got a bit brighter and stopped suddenly. This was over the water near Swansboro.

Didn’t see any aircraft.

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it was a flying stick with large windows about 6 with white light coming out of the windows, it was flying fast and went quickly. It was black and long like a stick and had 6 rectangle shaped windows on it of white light coming out and it was moving very fast! I have never seen anything like that before so this is the first time seeing this type of UFO. [I did see a UFO years ago a saucer type that landed in front of us and sat on the ground.

It was Gold and lights went around it all purple light when it landed. It toyed with us while drying, and it came from space! that happened in 1975!].

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Bright orange fire ball like light falling from sky then light disappears completely. Look left and see a silver disc moving slowly Bright orange light like a giant fire ball falling from the sky then light disappears completely. Look left and see circle disk 100 times the size of an airplane with no lights, no sound, moving slow but fast at the same time because it was so large it looked like it was in slow motion.

We could see the g force air being pushed in front of the craft which is what made it noticeable. This was our first experience ever witnessing a ufo. We can’t be the only ones who saw this in Wilmington tonight.

Location murrayville.

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Slowly spinning and moving teal illuminated craft I work in film and at the end of a shift, we were taking photos of the moon when we noticed a strange light in the photos. With my naked eye I could see a small teal light moving slowly, I zoomed in in photos and could see it was spinning while moving in a direction towards me (see side by side photos) - but still quite far away. It disappeared almost instantly.

It was much larger than any of the planes in the vicinity considering the distance. It emitted no sound I could hear, but I cannot be 100% sure it was silent.

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Orb ball of light night sky stationary then started moving low altitude Walking dog 7PM ish noticed odd light over rooftops tops higher level than street lights. Initially stationary than began moving toward me … feeling of “dread” tan back into house.

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3 Orange lights seen on College road in Wilmington, NC. Dark early morning skies along College Road at 17th street intersection. I was returning to beach after taking a friend to the airport.

Several cars were stopped on the road. I thought it was a traffic accident. I stopped behind another car and the driver got out of his car.

As soon as he did, 3 orange lights zoomed by us overhead right above the tree line at a very fast rate of speed and continued down college road. I watched for a few minutes and then they were gone.

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Long disc with approximately 10 round uniform lights. A group of friends were on a small island on the intracoastal near Wilmington, NC. We saw what first appeared to look like a comet in the distance but it continued to come closer to our location.

Once it was above our group it looked like a long disc shape with approx 10 equally shaped and uniform white lights. All 7 in our group witnessed the same account. It was not like anything we had ever seen.

It soon disappeared altogether. There is no explanation for what we saw.

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Hovering 30 FT x 20FT craft with a yellow light on either side and 3 vertical red lights in the middle. Subject: UFO Report: 10/14/2020, 11:30 p.m.

EST To Whom It May Concern: I left my sister's house on [street name hidden] Way on Wednesday, 10/14/2020 at 11:30 pm EST (23:30 hours). As I drove down the street, I noticed lights ahead that were hovering over a house and not moving. I slowed down so I could try to make out what I was seeing.

It was a large object (around 30 FT wide & 20 FT tall) hovering in the sky about roughly 50 feet above the roof of the house directly across the street from the [street name hidden] Way stop sign. Anyone with a good baseball arm could have thrown a stone and hit it. As I approached the stop sign, I realized it was a lot bigger than I thought- jet black and I could only make out the outline of the craft against the night sky.

there were no other markings that I saw, only the lights and outline. It also made no sound that I could hear. I did have my windows up, but the neighborhood was completely silent and no one was outside so if it did display an engine-type sound, I should have been able to hear that considering how close I was to this thing (probably around 150 ft away from me).

It had 2 yellow lights on either side of the craft and 3 red lights in the middle. It looked like an upside-down bell but a little wider, more triangle shaped but with rounded edges, and the lights were on the front, not on the side or underneath. It was very thick.

very solid looking--not flat. There was nothing protruding on the craft, no wings or blades. It was very large, as I mentioned before--like the size of my living room w/ vaulted ceilings.

My first thought was this must be a VERY expensive military surveillance drone due to its size but why the heck is it hovering in our community this late at night?!? It started moving toward me so I floored the gas and sped away as fast as I could. I wasn't sure if it was following me until I turned left on [street name hidden] Ct and there it was. It was on my left moving VERY slowly over the houses on [street name hidden] Ct.

heading in the direction of [school name hidden] High School. I raced down the road and pulled into my garage, jumped out to take a picture of it and it was already gone. I have to tell you, that was the most frightening thing I've ever encountered.

I made a police report the next day (10/15/2020) and the officer confirmed that “none of their drones were outside at time” and “their drones are only 24 INCHES wide.” I did not take any pics or videos because I was seriously so frightened of being abducted that I could not look away. I did, however, press my sister’s phone number that is saved on my vehicle’s home screen to call my sister via bluetooth.

She can attest that I was screaming, “Come outside! Come outside! I think I’m witnessing a UFO!!” She thought I was joking and hung up. I’ve included a hand-drawn picture of what I saw. Thank you for looking into this matter.

If it was military, it is quite concerning that they are in a residential neighborhood flying so close to houses.

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10 white lights in formation, observed over Wilmington NC. My dad and his friend told me to come outside, and I observed 10 lights flying equally spaced, in a straight line moving North to South, all the lights disappeared at the same point in the sky. There were no Navigation or strobe lights typical of aircraft.

The lights moved without sound at an un determined altitude. I’m guessing the lights were around the same altitude of normal aircraft or higher. Approximately 45 minutes later a jet aircraft flew over South to North with normal aircraft lights and noise.

After the lights had passed we heard rumbling noises similar to thunder, but the weather was clear and local weather radar showed now precipitation.

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Very Fast Bright Sphere in the Sky I was walking my dog down a dark un-lit road around 3am on Saturday morning April 18th 2020. While looking forward, I noticed light coming from over my shoulder, expecting it to be a car headlights I turned around and immediately noticed upwards in the sky and rather close to the ground (under the clouds) was a very large fast moving sphere/circle of light moving across the sky. It was definitely a physical object.

It disappeared into the horizon behind the trees and into the clouds.

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Went out to my car in the middle of the night to have a cigarette (feels safer being in the car) once i was done, i felt nervous going inside so i called a friend to stay on the line while I walk to the door. I say hi when she answers and step out of my car. I see a reflection in the grass in my neighbors yard.

I look directly above into the sky and i see these flashing green lights, that are also moving and flowing through the sky, but not leaving the boarder of a hexagon shape. I started to scream, scaring my friend. All i could say was "lights!! Lights!!!" I stare for what feels like a lifetime, then realizing what could happen and that i could be in danger i run back into my car, lock the door, and try to show my friend on face time.

As soon as the camera flips it is gone. Has anyone else seen this??.

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Sighted one bright low-flying light slowly glide up and abruptly stop. originally guessed it might have been a helicopter or osprey out of lejeune or new river but there was no noise and the flight pattern was too tight and in my opinion, impossible for conventional aircraft. Not long after it stopped and began to hover, a second smaller light appeared to almost morph out of the bottom of the craft almost like a bead of liquid dripping off.

The second object rotated around the larger original object several times while the original object pulsates with light, then (almost as if it were called back) the second object quickly emerged back with the original and the object took off in the opposite direction on a linear horizontal flight path. Again there was never any noise and these objects were in my opinion within a half a mile of where I was as it was visible to me in my perspective. I am former military and am fully aware of what military aircraft would look like flying against a night sky and this was just not any man made aircraft in my opinion.

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One white light that dimmed and disappeared. Watched white circle come across the sky from west to east twice as fast as a jet. As it passed over it slowly went dim and disappeared.

No sound. Thought it might have been space station but way to low. Did not burn up light shooting star.

Again slowly dimmed its light.

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7-8 elongated objects flying in straight line North to South along coast of North Carolina. Mid-level clouds above the objects.

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Triangular Craft with Circular Light in Center Object was seen east of Middle Sound, near Wrightsville Beach, most likely off the coast. Object was completely stationary, showing no plumes or means of propulsion. Object slowly dropped altitude and back up as if it was hanging from a fishing line.

Video taken provided a picture that when zoomed in showed it to be triangular, with a circular light deriving from its center. Object was eventually cloaked by the atmosphere after about 10 minutes and was no longer visible. Minutes later the area had familiar sounds of military fighter jets.

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Firework sparks in daytime; highly reflective glitter; bird flock formation; closely overhead. Dear NUFORC, First and foremost, I would like to say "thank you" for the work that you do. It was a lovely, clear Saturday and I was home after directing morning music rehearsals at a local church.

I was elated because the early evening was beatific in its summer breeze. Coming home to perfect summer weather was nice, as our church building has a cold-and-spooky vibe that leaves me drained. I was standing up on my porch, just enjoying the blue sky while my friend sat down to check her texts, when I suddenly saw something 25-50 ft overhead - something that I still cannot explain, as I have found little to no evidence.

It was a highly reflective, metallic, glittery, shapeless poof of sparks that resembled blinking stars or fireworks. The blob was about 5 ft in length, had many sparks, appeared out of thin air and disappeared the same way. Toward the end of its appearance, the sparks seemed to coordinate with one another to make a formation that reminded me of a flock of birds flying very high overhead, at sunset.

I can definitely confirm that this was not that. This was especially strange to me, and reminded me that I have a friend who has been researching UFO's for many years, and that she has found that they like to hide by imitating their environment. Back to the event, I was slack-jawed by what I was seeing, yet immediately alarmed my friend who was not able to look up from her screen to see the 2-5 second event.

I would like to add that we were soberly sharing food, and that I don't suffer from any type of hallucinations. Finally, I was not scared at all by the proximity of this sighting.just blown away.