NUFORC Sighting 152393

Occurred: 2020-01-05 21:00 Local
Reported: 2020-01-06 20:16 Pacific
Duration: 5 hours

Location: New Bern, NC, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail

Pilot Reported Lights off NC Coast

At approximately 1630 EST a pilot reported to Air Traffic Control a possible derelict weather balloon just off the coast of North Carolina near Morehead City at or near 22,000 feet moving from west to east. Appropriate reporting procedures ensued and reports continued sporadically for the next couple of hours before they temporarily ceased. At approximately 2100 EST another pilot reported 10 miles north west of New Bern, NC, at around 9,000 feet reported a static light with contrails around it and could not confirm that it was a balloon or anything similar of that nature.

Posted 2020-02-07