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Wilson, North Carolina UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 17 UFO sighting reports in Wilson, North Carolina to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "circle" (5 reports, 29.41% of total).
- August is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 23.53% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 29.41% of total).
- 2012 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 23.53% of total).
- 12/08/02 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 11.76% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (8 reports, 47.06% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Wilson, North Carolina
These Wilson, 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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Was looking at what I thought was a plane going through the sky. It was still dark outside so I couldn't see the shape, but only the light. The light then changed directions and shot through the sky like a shooting star would do.
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20 lights flying single file evenly apart While looking at the stars we noticed a single file of lights in the sky. They were spaced evenly, made no sound and moved at a steady pace. We tried to video tape but it would not show we counted 20 lights moving from SW to NE.
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Riding us 42 east, notice a large object worth red, orange, white lights, heard no noise, later it moved further away, then a white round light flashed by object, was actually freaked out to see something like this, brother had been telling us he's seen for months on different nights.
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I went out for my morning cigarette and walk, when I noticed White, pill shaped, silent, wingless aircraft glided from north to south across the horizon in full daylight. It was the only aircraft in the sky. No lights or anything was coming from the craft.
It was flying about as high as a helicopter would fly, but it completely and absolutely silent. No erratic movement was noted. I wanted to run back into the house to photograph it, but I didn't want to miss it.
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Orange Lights Over Wilson NC First caught our attention as we driving. 3 to 4 round orange objects, bright glowing, in the sky just above the tree line floating slowly off in the distance. We pull over to see what it was thinking maybe floating lanterns or some other type of glowing device.
However they were glowing to bright and began to move off together at the same time in the same direction. Then, more objects appeared afterwards same color and circular and swiftly moved off maybe an additional 3 to 4. Then and additional 2 came out and quickly move off.
We tried to follow but could not keep up and the vanished quickly. Duration of the event was short maybe 5 to 10 minutes. We are not sure what we have witnessed have tried our best to logically explain it but have no explanation.
Also to note the objects sometimes were a bright white then went to a light orange to to bright orange, no sound was ever emitted.
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bright orb being chased by a jet along with several other crafts after that. very bright like the sun. This is a report of the craft I have seen flying over the area where I live.
I started to see things more and more as I started to look up more and more. There are planes that fly above the house but I notice that there are a lot more things around than just a few planes flying over. Planes come from one area and keep on going in the same direction.
I have not seen but a few planes during the day and night but whatever the other things are, they are not planes. Several times you will see a jet chase the other objects around the area and in circles until the object takes off and leaves the jet behind like its nothing at all. A lot of times the other objects look like bright orbs that float in air.
They set in a spot for a few hours then slowly move to another area. They pass one another like playing chick but they stop side by side and then take back off again. They come together in a circle then break off in different directions and fly out of s! ight then return a little later to do it again.
Any time a plane passes by they follow it for awhile then drop back to where they were setting at to begin with. Some look like a flying star but brighter, much brighter. There is a area back in the woods that are large sand pits where they lower down below the tree line and come back up several hours later.
I have been back their but get a sick feeling when I do and hair stands up on my arms. I will not go back there anymore. They seem to be more and more over time and on clear nights.
I have a lot of other objects with red and white flashing light that fly around the area a lot but they are much slower and normal just fly out of sight then return to the other direction hours later. I caught one on my camera during the evening and it looks like a flying star but with a jet chaseing it. I mean the jets are so close to the tree tops when chaseing these things that you see leaves fly up and the tree tops lay over.
The bright orbs like to stay over the several sand pits we have in the area. They fly in circles over them a few minutes before either lowering down or moveing to the next one. One other the other red and white lighted crafts did the same and we know it lowered all the way to the ground because it left a stream of smoke like a jet from the ground up when it landed and took off.
But this was different from the bright orbs. Several times the bright orbs seem to come from every direction and that’s when they all come together in a circle and s! et for a few minutes. Some times for a hour or so before backing up to form a triangle.
Once they form a triangle they look to be connected to one another as they start to spin in a circle as a triangle. They spin around in a circle and slowly move in another direction. When this happens it is like a stopping point for all of the other crafts.
Each one comes from another direction to meet up with the brighter one that formed the triangle and after meeting them it returns to another area to do it again. I can see anywhere from 10 to 30 in one night some times. I saw several in just a hour.
I burn large piles of tree limbs and they seem to come out from everywhere when that happens. My mother is scared to the point where she will not go outside at night. When you see 8 or 9 flying lights over your head just setting there not moveing to much it is weard.
I just need to find out what they are. Some look to be a sphere with lots of light from red to a white strop to even a green! lazer light. But I have called several airports and they said! that th ey have no where near that many planes in the air at night.
I have seen about 4 land in the fields and sand pits in the area. It lights up the woods like the sun itself.
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Small red and white lights hovering arond area for hours,comeing together as a triangle, moveing west with night fall I know its getting to you but I really need your help. I’m trying everything I can to record these things flying around my house almost every freakn night. There is no way they are just planes because these things just set in the same spots for hours sometime before slowly moveing off.
Some look like really bright stars but if you watch them among other star you can see they move around a lot. I was able to catch 2 on my recorder at night fall and one of the really bright ones at night. My recorder won’t work to good at night so stars show up but the light does.
There seem to be 2 different types of flying objects. One has 2 whits light and smaller red ones between the white ones. The other is several small white and red lights that look to rotate in cirles like its spinning.
I star to see them at night fall and on thru the night. A lot of times the smaller one form a triangle when they get in that form they seem to go off in another direction but come back later on and separate and go in different directions. I just need help to figure out how to record them or catch them.
It is Sunday night and I started watching them about 8:30pm til around 1:00am and I counted 22 sightings. I don’t know if it was the same ones leaveing and comeing back but I have seen up to 6 in the sky at the same time. They cross one another and come within feet of one another and just stop and set there for a few minutes then take off again.
I can’t see air planes getting that close. The one I recorder in day light looks like a mirror flying by it was so bright. At that moment there was 3 in the air but I could only get one clearly because my recorder wouldn’t zoom in any more plus they are fast to follow.
I even got what looked like a jet following that one but left the jet way behind. I never thought That stuff like that was real but after I saw the first one I kept looking up and on a clear night I could see a lot of them. If they are planes then ! I guess every plane in the area goes over my house.
What gets ! me is ho w many there is and how low they are. Plus they seem to just set in spots for along time. Everytime I try to record or watch them they stay at the edge of the clouds and for some reason my recorder battery dies within minutes.
I only recorder like 10 minutes all together and the battery was dead after being fully charged. Its never done that til now. During the day if they are close you start to record but the object doesn’t show up in the recorder but the streamer is still there.
You know how jets leave a cloud streamer behind them. Well, these do to but that’s all you can see in the camera but you can clearly see the object with your eyes. Plus my recorder uses the tape to record and dew at night messes with the camera so it hard to do.
But I did get the really bright one where all of the other smaller ones meet up at before flying off. I need help figuring out how to catch better recordings of these so I can prove what Im saying. The few recordings I have are not enou! gh for me.
If I have to I’ll buy a better recorder because these aren’t planes. I’ve watched them for almost a month. But they seem to be returning more than before or I just noticed it.
I’ve watched them every night for 2 weeks. Even on cloudly nights you can see them sometimes. From 8pm til midnight is the best I’ve seem.
I put a spot light on one and about 4 can back and just circled around for about a hour before moveing away. I did notice that when they form a triangle the lights look almost orange and brighter but I’ve only seem that twice in a week. Please reply or tell me how to catch a clear view to show others.
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Bright lights look like a star, moves fast and stops, circles a standard craft, they circle the area and return to larger craft several I’ve never reported anything I’ve seen until now and it’s hard to believe but I had to report this. It has happened 2 times before and I never said anything. There is a set of lights that stay in a standard spot but moves around alittle each night I see it.
The smaller crafts move around a lot and move in several directions but always comes back to the standard one. The smaller crafts move around low to the ground compaired to normal plains and there isn’t any sound at all which is weard. Also, they seem to stop from time to time and lower down some then take back off up and in another direction.
The slow down and stop for several minutes before moveing on again. I have seem up to 8 in one night. At first they look like stars but they move alittle then they get closer and you start to see the lights.
They are very small crafts and have a white light on each side that is white and turns red. Sometimes they flash. The middle has a small white light and a red one.
Like I said there is not any sound and they move super fast some times but normally very slow and low to the ground but I put a light on it and it was gone in seconds. It was almost effortless for it. They go in one direction til its out of site then comes back about 20 minutes later and meets the standard craft.
From there they go into another direction and returns. They do a odd thing sometimes, they line up with a star and just set there until another comes up and they fly off again. I have seen this two times before but they did not stay in the area this long.
It's been several hours and they keep returning to the standard craft. I thought the large craft was a star for most of the night til I noticed it was moveing around more. The small crafts can set still for long amounts of time and when they lower down you cant hear any sound at all.
I tried to take a picture with my phone but I couldn’t find them in the screen to record them. It has been several hours now and the standard craft is still there. The smaller ones are still returning just like before.
They are always around the large clouds when they are seen. It is like they try and stay behind the cloud and the smaller ones leave when they large one gets behind the clouds. It sometimes looks as if the clouds just stop when that happens.
Its not like anything I have ever seen but if it still keeps happening I’ll see them again because this is weard and has happened before. I ready would like to know whats going on and why there is small crafts surrounding the area and why here because there isn’t much in this area.
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plane chaseing a bright star like craft, very fast. I have it on video. Thank you for reading this.
I have been watching these things for some time and several times a month. One even landed a few miles down the road. After following it to a dirt path and as I came to the end where it was at there was a gate that said it was an animal reserve.
I have lived here my whole life and never heard of that being there. The other I got on tape with a jet following it but was left behind after the object went to fast for the jet to keep up with it. It was as bright as a star and sometimes it seems to get as bright as the sun.
It is so bright and fast. If the sky is right you can see a tail of smoke from it when it goes fastest. I have it in the day time on video also of the jet behind it.
Full Report Text:
Several unidentified objects where seen on this day from my home in Wilson, NC On Sunday, January 09, 2011 at about 11:40 am, I was lying on my bed which faces a window in my bedroom, and from my bedroom window, a series of very bright lights caught my attention. I immediately looked out of the window and observed approximately 30-40 circular shapes in the sky with bright lights. I was the only person to my knowledge that saw this and I immediately called 911, they gave me a number to the FAA 1-866-835-5322, to no avail.
I had someone go online and found this site. There was no noise, just the lights they were extremely bright. Just as quick as I saw them, they went away… I am not crazy! I know what I saw.
Thank you Mrs. ((name deleted)).
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Star shaped light blinking and rotating - then two of same lights after cloud went over and began to move Last evening, October 1, 2008, at approximately 8:00 p.m. I was walking my dog in the Country Club area of Wilson, NC (40 miles east of Raleigh, NC).
The sky was semi-clear with a few occasional clouds. As I looked up a saw a light hovering – not overhead – but in front of me, probably about the height of a airplane midway down to landing. The thing that caught my attention was that this light wasn’t moving – it literally was hovering.
As I walked along and got focused on the light it looked like a star-shaped light (individual lights in the shape) at the bottom that were blinking/rotating. I thought it was odd as I have never in my 52 years seen something in the sky that resembled this kind of light. After a few minutes of staring at this light a cloud went over it.
When the light reappeared it then looked like there were two sets of star-shaped lights that were blinking and rotating. After the second set of lights appeared the object began to move southward in the sky at a much greater rate than I have ever seen an airplane. I watched it for a minute or so and then the lights disappeared.
I telephoned the non-emergency 911 number but was told no one else had reported seeing this light. I am sending in this report just because I know this was not an airplane. I have Googled all morning what kind of object would have this type of lighting on the bottom but all I have come up with are unidentified flying objects - -.
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2 dark cigar shaped objects in night sky We were driving home from the store when we saw them. There were 2 that we could see. There were no lights, just dark shapes.
We have an almost full moon right now and you could see their profile near the moon. We slowed down and watched them all the way down the road. They didn't seem to be moving.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Unusual ball of light flashed in the sky When I stepped outside to smoke cig I saw helicopter in distance so I went to edge of porch to look at it flying by. After it went further away I saw bright blue/white flash with pale green around it above our house for split second but I couldn't get better look at it. About 30 seconds later I saw 2nd flash and tried to take better look at it this time.
It look like some kind of ball of lighting but it's not very bright. It look strange because I never see anything like that before. I don't know if it's UFO or something else but I decided to report it anyway.
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Myself and two others witnessed a strange object over North Carolina skies. My girlfriend and I were going home from an event and as we arrived home we noticed a object in the sky. We first thought it may have been a blimp but the more we watched this object move we knew it was not.
This object moved slow at times then fast with sudden stops and would hover for a few seconds then move out of sight then back again. The object was for the most part dark but it was a clear night and we could see the object clearly against the night sky. I would say that it was no more than 500 yards away during the time we saw it.
It most surely had a metalic look to it but not very shiney. We watched this for a good two minutes or so and as fast as it came it was gone. The object to me looked to be more of a tube shape like a paper towel roll.
This left both of us speachless for several minutes. We live in a small city but at that time of night there were few people out. We were in a well lit parking area and our front yard at the time of the sighting.
My friend who was visiting from out of state also witnessed this but for only a few seconds as he arrived at our apartment after we did. He was awstruck with the object and had many questions but we were just as puzzled. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate.
PD)).
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We tracked a large cigar shaped object accross town until it went out of view over the treeline. As we exited off the highway to go into the city, I spotted the big, bright light in the sky. It was straight ahead of us about 150 feet off the ground and about 2 miles away.
The sky was thinly veiled in clouds, the crescent moon and some stars still visible behind them. The light we saw was almost as large as the crescent moon and almost as bright.It was on the underside of the clouds, and was clearly visible.
It was a cigar shape and moved with as we drove into the city. We were traveling at 60 mph. and as the object flew with us, covered a much greater distance in the same time.
I would guess it traveled about 150 mph. We got caught at what seemed like every stop light trying to follow the light as it passed over the town and away toward the next town. We kept up the best we could and finally lost sight of it as it disapeared over the tree line about 5 miles away.
At this point, we were way out in the country and no roads lead in the direction the object flew. Just farm and swampland. The object must have been of huge dimensions as we could tell it was always at least a couple miles away for most of the chase, but was still as big as moon.
I tried to call the local airport to see if they had any anomolous aircraft on radar, but no one answered the phone.
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UFO SEEN HOOVERING IN A NEARBY FIELD It resembled a flying saucer and was very large in size. It's width was about the size of three houses. The bottom never touched the ground.
It was just hoovering above the ground. It never made a sound, neither did it produce any wind around it. Put it this way; It was so quiet that you could hear the crickets outside.
The sky was so clear that you could see the stars that night. It never came out of the nearby field where we had spotted it until we began to move.(we had paused beside the road when we saw it) When we began to move into the opposite direction that we were traveling, it also moved into that direction also.
It was a very bright object that had small windows all the way around it. We never really got the chance to see the back of the ufo but I do Know that it's shape never changed. It was very calm and didn't appear to be harmful.
It did follow us about a mile down the road and never came close. I do believe that it was aware of us. After awhile it later took off with excessive speed across some nearby trees.
The only thing visible then was a bright light similar to the moon. It shot off in the air upward.
Wilson, 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 | 5 reported sightings | 29.41% of all reports |
Cigar | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Light | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Wilson, 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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August | 4 reported sightings | 23.53% of all reports |
July | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
April | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
September | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
October | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Wilson, 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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Sunday | 5 reported sightings | 29.41% of all reports |
Monday | 4 reported sightings | 23.53% of all reports |
Saturday | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Wednesday | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Tuesday | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Friday | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Wilson, 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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12/08/02 | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
01/09/11 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
08/01/12 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
09/09/12 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
08/13/12 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Wilson, 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 | 47.06% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 4 reported sightings | 23.53% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Wilson, North Carolina
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Wilson, North Carolina.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2021 | 1 UFO Reports | Wilson, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2021 |
2020 | 1 UFO Reports | Wilson, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2020 |
2018 | 1 UFO Reports | Wilson, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2018 |
2016 | 1 UFO Reports | Wilson, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2016 |
2014 | 1 UFO Reports | Wilson, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2014 |
2012 | 4 UFO Reports | Wilson, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2012 |
2011 | 1 UFO Reports | Wilson, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2011 |
2008 | 1 UFO Reports | Wilson, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2008 |
2007 | 1 UFO Reports | Wilson, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2007 |
2006 | 1 UFO Reports | Wilson, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2006 |
2005 | 1 UFO Reports | Wilson, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2005 |
2002 | 2 UFO Reports | Wilson, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2002 |
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