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Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 15 UFO sighting reports in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "triangle" (2 reports, 13.33% of total).
- September is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 26.67% of total).
- Tuesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 26.67% of total).
- 2012 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 20.00% of total).
- 09/16/22 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 13.33% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (9 reports, 60.00% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina
These Wrightsville Beach, 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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Spotted 2 UFOs, one white one red & white, above Wrightsville Beach I work as a music producer, and my wife works as a teacher. My wife and I drove down to Wrightsville Beach tonight, to do some romantic stargazing. We were at the 43rd access of Wrightsville Beach tonight, on Friday, September 16th, 2022.
We rolled out a beach blanket, laid back looking up at the stars, and we both saw some unusual lights that were moving above us. At 8:30pm, we saw two very silent unidentified crafts, neither of which made any engine sounds at all. The first UFO was round like a mechanical wagon wheel, shining a white light, and hovering about a mile above the Atlantic Ocean.
It would travel left, or weave right, and sometimes just hover in place. The second UFO looked like a round red ball of light, that would intermittently flash a white light. So that the appearance was a red and white flashing craft, flying about 300 feet above the beach.
In a matter of a few seconds, the second UFO was seen traveling due West along the coastline, exceeding speeds beyond 3,000 mph, and in a flash disappeared beyond the horizon. My wife and I were shocked, because we haven't seen anything quite like this, so we took pictures and video clips of the unidentified objects. What are these?.
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*Update* 2 UFOs Spotted Fri 9/16/22 @8:30PM Over Wrightsville Beach, NC *UPDATED REPORT* I live in Wilmington, NC. I'm a Music Producer and my wife works as a teacher. Friday night, my wife and I drove out to Wrightsville Beach for some romantic stargazing.
But, at 8:30 PM, we were surprised to spot 2 UFOs. The first craft emitted a bright white light, was too wide to be a star, and was like a mechanical wagon wheel in appearance. In the video it appears to have a forcefield around it.
It flew left, then right, but mainly hovered in place about a mile in the air over the Atlantic Ocean. The second craft was a red sphere about 300 feet in the air, which morphed shape, and changed flashing colors between red, white, yellow, and green. After a few minutes, the second craft zoomed past us to our left, heading westward down the coast at about 3,000 mph.
We ascertained this speed and measurements based off of the position of the crafts, in relation to the stationary stars, per the number of seconds it took for it to vanish over the horizon. We called the US FAA, that Friday night and left a message. Monday afternoon 9/19/22, James at the airtraffic control tower called us back.
When we asked him if there were any commercial or government aircraft flying over Wrightsville Beach that night around 8:30 PM, he said there were not any commercial or government flights scheduled for that Beach area. When we asked him what he thought it was, he replied he didn't know, because drones cannot reach speeds of 3,000 mph. We zoom edited the original photos & videos together into an attached YouTube video.
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Saw 3 orange orbs appear and hover over the ocean not moving On May 18, 2022 around 11 pm I was at access 2 in wrightsville beach, NC sitting on the beach. I had had a long day at work and wanted to decompress before heading home. While I was looking at the ocean, I noticed a large orange orb of light appear.
It was so bright. It was very low in the sky, almost right over the ocean. It was located in the direction of figure eight island.
I watched in amazement for a few minutes before I started recording. Videos do absolutely no justice to what I saw in person. Over a 15-20 minute timespan I witnessed 3 different lights but only 2 at a time.
One would appear and then slowly fade out and then another would appear right above and to the right of the previous one. I couldn’t tell where they had come from because they kind of magically appeared. After hearing the uap congress hearing this past summer, I went back to watch my recorded videos again and then edit as much as possible through my iPhone.
I noticed that it appears they came up from the ocean. I am attaching my screen shots of the video where I tried to make the objects stand out and show detail as much as possible. I have uploaded the original videos to YouTube.
Everything was done with an iPhone 11.
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A fireball-like object was seen falling for two minutes until it made a sharp 90 degree left turn and exited the field of vision. One family member saw something falling from the third floor. The sky was completely clear and the sun had recently set.
Five people went to the third-floor deck to witness this object, which we assumed to be a meteor due to its round appearance and the trail it left. However, it remained in the sky for almost 10 minutes at dusk, while there was still light in the sky. For the first two minutes, we witnessed the object falling directly downwards at a slow pace.
It then made a sharp 90 degree turn and continued to move in that direction, leaving an orange trail. It left our field of vision after 10 minutes of continuing to the left. We are still unsure as to if this was some sort of space debris, such as a meteorite, falling through the atmosphere but it does not seem to match the criteria.
The object was far enough away that we did not think it would hit anywhere near us.
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Orange colored object in the eastern sky over the ocean near Wrightsvillle Beach, NC. Glowing orange light observed in the eastern sky off Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. It moved from north to south.
It appeared at first sight to be close to the ocean surface and then climbed to what seemed to be about 1000 feet. I could hear no sound associated with the object. It continued to move south by southwest.
One observer is a psychologist and the other was his wife. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Triangular Shaped Craft over Wrightville Beach, North Carolina As I was Metal detecting on the beach tonight not having too much luck i stopped and started star gazing, I noticed two Military fighter jets come from out over the ocean from the south and flew off to my right.They only had red lights on. Maybe 15 mintues later I began detecting again and the tide was coming in and occasionally would send a surge of water rushing towards me, and as a surge came towards me i turned and ran away from it to keep my metal detector from getting wet and as i turned and stopped and noticed off to the Northwest 5 Giant white lights moving from left to right , THIS WAS A CRAFT! From my vantage point i could tell the object was triangluar in shape, it was totally silent and for being atleast a mile away it stuck out like a sore thumb in the night sky! These lights like i described to the operator upon my oringal report to the UFO Reporting Center were smaller than a full moon but definately bigger than a star and venus! As it conti! nued to move slowy from West to East it began to slowly make a 90 degree turn and started heading to the North and that was when I got my iphone out and attempted to get a video of it but my phone froze up, im not sure if it was because of the UFO or just my phone messing up but it has never done that before, i could see the object from the back and also the lights werent as bright as before because they werent directly in front of me, but the underside of the craft had a red pulsing light smaller than the white ones but not by much! The craft headed slowly towards the north and as it headed away from me the dunes from the beach blocked my view.
As i stood there i automaticly knew what i had witnessed! i started running to my car determined to get another look at the object and as i was running i heard a military helicopter coming from east along the shoreline and came directly over my head and turned and headed toward the north like it was chasing after the craft! The Helicopter had only its dull red lights on. I got to my car and sta! rted hea ding in the direction i last saw the object but i never saw it again after it last left my line of sight behind the dunes. I called my local poilce department and they said they will call air traffic control and report my statement to them! This undeniably a legit UFO!!.
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multiple objects blinking different colors over ocean and 3 bright white lights scanning beach at ground level my boyfriend and i were talking, sitting on beach, there were no stars in the sky at first, there were a few families still. later the clouds cleared and stars came out in one little patch over the ocean. looking more closely, we noticed one first blinking different colors and moving slightly left and right over the ocean.
then looking around we realized none of them were stars, they were all moving slowlyy and blinking slightly. some of them were moving towards the clouds towards wilmington. we very vaguely thought we saw stuff coming from them.
and some of the lights were moving at the same direction and pace making one look like one huge shape. there were also flashes in the sky, which we thought were originally heat lighting. after admiring the sky for about 25 minutes (we were the only ones on the beach) we looked down the beach and there were 3 lights at level coming down the beach.
it looked like someone running with 3 flashlights just scanning the sh! ore line down the beach, except there was nothing holding them up we could see. we just looked down the beach and they started out of no where. just coming way to smoothly and quickly for 3 people to be holding flashlights.
i got scared and started to head off the beach, the lights starting coming down the beach faster, so i ran. one light starting to shoot off in our direction and we were sprinting for the parking lot. running towards the board walk we heard just extrremely loud chirping in the dunes, sounded like crickets, just so loud and intense.
I ran as fast as i could towards the parking lot and the whole way running down the boardwalk the chirping just got louder and more intense, it was so loud. when i finally hit the parking lot and i got to my car there was one man on a phone sitting in the parking lot but there was no chirping anymore and when we looked up at the sky all the stars were gone. not one star in the sky.
when we got home we noticed just one in the sk! y, just floating, which we saw hours later still in the same s! pot. thi s was my first experience ever seeing anything like this. i have NO idea what was on the beach, literally on land.
but all the little lights in the sky were mostly over the ocean and there were so many of them. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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2 triangle objects and 1 sphere object, dancing and hovering in sky, red, purple, green, pink, very bright white lights. Watched them for about 20 mins then they took off at a very high speed.
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Four orbs of light, in no particular formation as if one craft, moving very fast south of wrightsville beach moving south. This just happened less than 30 minutes ago. I was studying for exams and took a break to smoke a cigarette.
While I was on my porch that overlooks the ocean I saw out of the corner of my eye one light that flashed maybe two or three times but very dimly. When I looked in that direction 4 lights slowly increased in brightness and took off south in a straight line very fast. I’m not exactly sure how far away they were but seemed like a couple miles.
Maybe over Masonboro Island which is I think 3 or 4 miles away. I don’t think it was one craft because three of them were in a triangle but not a perfect one and the other was off to the right. They were close to each other though, but it’s hard to say how close because they were far away.
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11/17/09 a disc w/ flashing lights hovered off coast of NC for 1hr+ moving horizontally then climbing off at a steep angle. While observing the meteor shower on November 17, 2009, we noticed an object North-northeast from Wrightsville Beach, N.C.
, hovering over the Atlantic Ocean. Multi-colored flashing lights, including orange, yellow, red, blue, and purple changed around perimeter causing what appeared to be a spinning effect. It occasionally moved horizontally but primarily maintained a fixed position approximately 20 degrees above the horizon.
As the meteor shower dissipated, a civilian or military aircraft flew past the object which then slowly moved away at a steep angle allowing the disc shape to be seen more clearly. It could be seen with the naked eye and, in more detail, through Tasco Offshore 21 7x50mm binoculars. This was witnessed by a 50 year old professional person and spouse along with a high school sophmore and two college students.
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Glowing disk with single beam sighted at Wrightsville Beach 9/19/09 at 7:50p.m. My friend and I were sitting on Harbor Island looking out on Banks Channel and Wrightsville Beach.
It is a cloudless night tonight and night had just fallen. My back was turned, but my friend abruptly brought my attention to the sky behind me. She had just noticed something in the northern sky.
It was a glowing golden disk fairly far up in the horizon with a white beam extending down from it a fair ways. The disk appeared to rise up a bit before it faded swiftly faded from sight. It could not have been an airplane, satellite, or jet; we’ve never seen anything like it in our lives.
((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD)).
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trange lights off of Topsail Beach My family and I were all on my Uncle's back porch at his rental home on the water front.We were waiting the moon to rise at 11:50 and we started noticing these really bright fireball looking shapes off the coast off of Topsail Beach across the inlet.They would come and go, sometimes as many as three at a time would appear.
They would appear and look as if they had gone under the water.Sometimes when the lights would go out you could still see something there for a few seconds then it too would dissapear. Please if anyone else has seen these lights please post on here as well.
I have seen that a couple back on 07/29/04 saw a similar sight off of Ocean Isle beach about 45 minutes south of here.
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3-4 objects moving around eachother about 45 degrees over Wrightsville beach 3 Objects, about 45 degrees over horizon, sometimes a 4th object joins them (note: I am having a friend enter this into his computer as I am watching and talking to him on my digital phone) Dancing lights in basically a triangle pattern. They move and pulse dimming and/or moving to and away from me. one was white, one bluish-white which is the smallest shifted to red at times, one bright yellow (the largest) shifting to soft yellow-white and fades to more blue but the full moon affects its color changes as if it is reflecting moonlight.
This one has a specific shape to it like a 5 pointed star. A 4th one shows up every now and then appears like a tiny red dot that darts forward and away. The triangle pattern seems to rotate around itself mainly clockwise.
At 4:50 am they are in more of a line pattern one nearly 90 degrees overhead. For reference, there are thunderheads overhead and rain sprinkles the whole time. The formation of them changes and rotates and has been going on the whole hour and a half at this point.
These are bright enough to often show through the thunderheads. At 4:58 am back around 60 degrees up, no longer straight above me. Lights are still here but I am heading back since I am starting to get really rained on.
Objects still darting and shifting brightness. Objects seem to be unaffected by the weather and possibly checking out the beach and maybe even noticing me. I am a Christian and having trouble explaining what I am looking at.
Are there any aircraft or man made objects that can do these things? ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witnesses were looking at Venus. PD)).
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Flashing light over atlantic ocean Were had jsut gotten back from myrtle beach and were standing out on the balconay of our beach house which looked overteh atlantic ocean,there was a very bright liget that would get real bright then dim so you could not see it then get real brigth, took a pai of binoculars and coudl clears make out a retangle liek object, it did not move it stayed in 1 place in the sky ((NUFORC Note: Possibly a celestial body, we suspect. PD)).
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12/6/02 10:55 pm EST. Bright blue ball appears and moves quickly through the sky. About 10:55 pm Friday Dec.
6th my roomate and I were outside our house at Wrightsville Beach, NC. We saw a bright light blue ball light up and drop down towards the west. It was almost blinding and only lasted a few seconds.
We were on a second story porch, facing the south and it was in the sky at about a 45 degree angle in the sky.
Wrightsville Beach, 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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Triangle | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Light | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Wrightsville Beach, 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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September | 4 reported sightings | 26.67% of all reports |
August | 3 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
December | 3 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
October | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Wrightsville Beach, 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 | 4 reported sightings | 26.67% of all reports |
Friday | 4 reported sightings | 26.67% of all reports |
Wednesday | 3 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Sunday | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Saturday | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Wrightsville Beach, 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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09/16/22 | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
09/19/09 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
12/08/10 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
11/17/09 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
03/27/12 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Wrightsville Beach, 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 | 9 reported sightings | 60.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 3 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 3 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2022 | 3 UFO Reports | Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2022 |
2019 | 1 UFO Reports | Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2019 |
2013 | 1 UFO Reports | Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2013 |
2012 | 3 UFO Reports | Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2012 |
2010 | 1 UFO Reports | Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2010 |
2009 | 2 UFO Reports | Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2009 |
2006 | 1 UFO Reports | Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2006 |
2004 | 1 UFO Reports | Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2004 |
2003 | 1 UFO Reports | Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2003 |
2002 | 1 UFO Reports | Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina UFO Sightings in 2002 |
All North Carolina Cities with UFO Sightings
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