NUFORC Reports for State NC

Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Media	Explanation
Open	12/13/1994 18:55	Murphy	NC	USA		Woman reports seeing strange, lighted obj. with "arms." Many witnesses and written reports.	02/03/1995
Open	02/05/1995 01:30	Greensville	NC	USA		Woman and friend witnesses "striped, square" ship streak towards them while driving home. Followed them. Good rept..	02/07/1995
Open	03/30/1995 23:32	Murphy	NC	USA		Woman and grandson witness large, oval, brightly lighted obj. W of Murphy, NC. Similar sighting 03/28/95 @8pm	04/02/1995
Open	06/03/1995 23:53	Goldsboro	NC	USA		Man repts. two sightings minutes apart. Sees very bright light, "like meteor," streaking to NE. Sees minutes later going SE.	06/03/1995
Open	07/30/1995 01:06	Bolivia	NC	USA		NC Emer. Commo.Cntr. repts. 2 police officers reporting strange lights in sky near Goose Creek area.	07/29/1995
Open	07/30/1995 22:05	Highpoint	NC	USA		Man sitting on lawn hears obj. pass overhead very fast. Distinct humming tone. Repts. it sheared limb off tree.	07/30/1995
Open	11/17/1995 23:30	Seymour-Johnson AFB	NC	USA		Duty sergeant rpts multiple calls from citizens regarding 1 or more (?) objects hovering, maneuvering near USAF base. Radar neg.	11/17/1995
Open	12/17/1995 20:15	Greenville	NC	USA		Man witnesses 3 orange lights in triangular pattern hover momentarily, glide across sky, pause, pivot, the fade from view.	12/19/1995
Open	03/13/1996 23:05	Pink Hill	NC	USA		Man walks onto porch, notes very bright light in sky with"4 small lights on one end, giving off sparks on other." Suddenly moves off.	03/13/1996
Open	11/27/1996 00:00	Graham County	NC	USA		Police report--Possible twinkling star.	11/27/1996
Open	03/30/1997 20:30	Shallotte	NC	USA	Formation	9-10 orange objects flying in V formation,leader drops down to form W ,all vanish within seconds. Watching Hale-Bopp, both girlfriend a	04/30/1997
Open	12/31/1986 19:00	Mt. Airy (near)	NC	USA	Formation	We were driving south on Hwy. 52 when we saw 3white lights in a triangular shape ascend from thetrees to the left of the highway and ho	04/30/1997
Open	06/01/1963 11:00	Albemarle	NC	USA	Disk	outside playling ,neighbor starting yelling pointing up to the sky , went over to look the woman was scared she ran into her house told	06/01/1997
Open	05/15/1997 21:00	Asheville	NC	USA	Other	an object was sited around the asheville area that was travelling westward. it was brilliantly lit and appeared to be moving very fast.	06/20/1997
Open	06/22/1997 06:00	Greensboro	NC	USA	light	two lights in tandem moving NE-SW	06/24/1997
Open	08/03/1997 22:03	Bakersville	NC	USA	light	A bright light with a long tail (presumed to be a meteroite) was sited moving slowly across the eastern sky, in a south to north direct	08/03/1997
Open	10/29/1997 16:30	Glen Alpine	NC	USA	Light	I herd a humming sound and a bright lite. From - Thu Oct 30 14:34:07 1997 Return-Path: nobody@colorado.nwlink.com Received: from colora	10/30/1997
Open	06/15/1985 14:00	Stokes	NC	USA	Disk	I think I was about 9yrs old, and my brother 5yrs old. We lived on farming land. We were out playing at the edge of the field one day w	01/07/1998
Open	02/21/1998 20:00	Halifax	NC	USA	Circle	While driving I noticed a large, bright orange circle in the sky with what appeared to be a straight object sticking down from the lowe	02/21/1998
Open	02/27/1998 21:00	Morganton	NC	USA	light	Large amount of lights on a mountain about tree top level	02/27/1998
Open	04/15/1971 15:30	Burlington	NC	USA	Circle	I was thirteen years old, was in the back seat of a Volkswagon Beetle being driven home from school, while gazing out the rear window I	04/08/1998
Open	10/01/1997 09:00	Charlotte	NC	USA	Cigar	Cigar shaped, silvery-white object @ 500-1,00' up, in a clear blue, cloudless sky. Object was silent, immobile, and when I glanced dow	04/27/1998
Open	10/25/1978 21:00	Monroe	NC	USA	Disk	Coming home from grocery store on a brisk fall evening I noticed something in the sky to the NW of our location. Stopped car to take pi	08/29/1998
Open	08/22/1998 23:15	Sparta (12 mi.north of, countryside)	NC	USA	Unknown	A 69-yr-old male sighted small lights below the planet Jupiter. Looking through binoculars, another male 65 years old, sighted small li	08/31/1998
Open	06/23/1998 01:15	Apex/Holly Springs (between)	NC	USA	Triangle	Town of Fuquay, NC had power blackout -10PM - 06/22/98. Hwy 55,north of town, saw BRIGHT white light-southern horizon. Shaped like quar	06/23/1998
Open	03/07/1998 18:17	Benson (Just outside of)	NC	USA	Fireball	A comnet shaped object suddenly appeared in the sky and appeared to move across the sky slowly until it turned away from me and disappe	06/24/1998
Open	08/15/1985 20:00	South Nags Head	NC	USA	Triangle	While walking on beach, two teenagers witnessed football-field-sized triangular craft over water from distance of approx. 50 feet.	07/03/1998
Open	07/12/1998 21:45	Salisbury (E Ridge Rd.)	NC	USA	Fireball	Bright self illuminated object traveling SE to NW Changed direction at least twice at very high speed and at very sharp angles say at l	07/13/1998
Open	07/13/1998 21:00	Chocowinity	NC	USA	Disk	It really just appeared, it was only a few feet above me, I an not sure but I think I touched it. It was a silverish metallic color, I	07/20/1998
Open	10/10/1991 22:00	Frisco	NC	USA	Unknown	A friend and myself were standing on the shore of the Pamlico sound as we observed 4 objects moving in up and down motions for about 30	07/21/1998
Open	02/23/1981 21:00	Cameron	NC	USA	Light	Round object hovering in sky then in a zig zag motion dissapering	07/26/1998
Open	10/15/1998 16:01	Winston-Salem	NC	USA	Sphere	silver-white sphere crossed sky in 12 sec.	10/15/1998
Open	10/10/1998 20:50	Mooresville	NC	USA	Light	Star gazing in back yard with telescope and binos. Saw shooting star and an oblong shape of light.	10/18/1998
Open	10/24/1998 17:00	Wilmington	NC	USA	Sphere	Approx 1 hour before dusk, 7 chrome-colored spheres appeared in the north/northwest sky. The objects didn't appear to be balloons and w	10/27/1998
Open	07/21/1976 23:00	Brevard	NC	USA	Sphere	Saw two star-like objects, one bluish, theother orange, remain stationary for at least 5 minutes, then, in sequence and at about a 2 mi	11/02/1998
Open	06/10/1966 21:30	Hickory	NC	USA	Disk	Bright Light in distance over mountains moves in very quickly, then moves slowly over suburban commercial district (Kmart).	11/09/1998
Open	10/06/1998 02:00	Vass (Town of, on hwy #1)	NC	USA	Circle	I saw a green irredesent ball in the sky	11/07/1998
Open	07/15/1994 16:00	Charlotte	NC	USA	Triangle	I witnessed a black unmarked helicopter first. then as if coming straight up behind a tree line was a large triangular shaped craft.	11/15/1998
Open		Marshville (about 3miles south of)	NC	USA	Cylinder	I was about 13 when I was laying down in a field looking at the partly cloudy sky. It was a windy day when the some of the cloud sepera	11/17/1998
Open	11/29/1998 01:50	Hampstead	NC	USA	Fireball	As we steped out of our car we saw a fireball vollyball size redish orange yellow in color, heading west to east on a horizontal plane	11/28/1998
Open	12/10/1998 03:05	Fort Mill	NC	USA	Disk	The object was a dull orange glow, shaped like a flattened image of Saturn. It crossed in front of Orion and I caught it in my binocula	12/10/1998
Open	10/22/1986 22:00	Selma	NC	USA	Light	Six aircraft moving at high rates of speed in an acrobatic formation then dissapearing in a star burst	12/13/1998
Open	07/04/1998 22:30	Nags Head	NC	USA	Light	I was outside at around 22:30 and i saw three circular lights in a triangle formation. They moved through the sky pretty fast, and then	12/19/1998
Open	05/09/1998 20:00	Asbury community	NC	USA	Light	the lights would change colors as if spinning really fast and they looked like the colors of a prism	01/13/1999
Open	11/21/1998 22:00	Avon (Outer Banks)	NC	USA	Light	Single points of light, orange/yellow in color, much like meteors. There was broken cloudcover, and the lights would appear and disappe	11/22/1998
Open	10/09/1998 17:50	Pikeville (Farmingdale Drive)	NC	USA	Disk	I walked outside wearing my red lesned sunglasses and I saw it. It went SW then NE and had a reflective covering and was moving faster	02/03/1999
Open	02/02/1999 21:30	Charlotte	NC	USA	Fireball	I'm an Engieer and former Air Traffic controller. I spotted a Green Fireball. I waited to hear someone else report this but none els ha	02/19/1999
Open	09/01/1989 18:00	Hiddenite	NC	USA	Disk	A VERY LARGE SAUCER SHAPED OBJECT (ABOUT THE SIZE OF TWO FOOTBALL FIELDS) (SILVER IN COLOR) WITH FLASHING COLORED LIGHTS (GREEN, RED &	02/19/1999
Open	02/23/1999 20:00	North Carolina (southeast part)	NC	USA	Sphere	while driving north on interstate 95, my mother and i had just crossed the border into north carolina, we saw a red spherical light cro	03/12/1999
Open	02/14/1998 10:45	Rocky Mount	NC	USA	Disk	I was fishing in Stoney creeck about 10:45 pm. I looked up and I saw somehting aproaching me at pretty fast rate of speed, I would say	03/13/1999
Open	07/01/1955 21:00	Stoneville	NC	USA	Sphere	a sphere of light,baseball at arms leingth.	03/15/1999
Open	04/01/1991 18:00	Fort Fisher	NC	USA	Light	Red lights came out of the water, hovered a few seconds then went up at a slight angle at a speed that was incredible. As big as 3 airc	03/15/1999
Open	03/19/1999 16:20	Weaverville	NC	USA	Other	Two black helicopters following possible object near Parkway entrance	03/19/1999
Open	10/12/1998 19:00	Asheville	NC	USA	Fireball	A MOVING RED BALL OF LIGHT.	03/22/1999
Open	03/25/1999 20:50	Interstate 40, East Bound	NC	USA	Oval	on 03-25-99 me and my wife were on interstate 40 east bound when we saw a bright light in front of us it stoped and then all of a sudde	04/09/1999
Open	06/10/1982 21:30	Greensboro	NC	USA	Sphere	Observed objects passing along the banks of city reservoir	03/30/1999
Open	04/24/1999 02:00	Marion	NC	USA	Teardrop	huge bright star moving from left to right, then turned to tear drop and then went dull and moved over our lake home. strange but true.	04/24/1999
Open	04/01/1993 06:00	Gastonia	NC	USA	Formation	A triangle formation seen each morning before daybreak for five days off Bud Wilson Road.	05/02/1999
Open	05/05/1999 21:45	Walstonburg	NC	USA	Other	Round and round, dizzying	05/07/1999
Open	06/01/1998 00:00	Andrews	NC	USA	Cylinder	clear day seen object in western sky...2 military aircraft flying together toward the object	05/07/1999
Open	04/10/1999 19:30	Charlotte	NC	USA	Other	Large craft - noisy - many lights - altitude 200 feet - speed less than 65 mph - strange aspect ratio, almost the same aspect ratio as	05/14/1999
Open	05/20/1999 07:35	Roanoke Rapids	NC	USA	Cylinder	I was in my wife's graduation with some friends. Around 7:35 my friends were taping the event. When I asked them to look up they refuse	05/20/1999
Open	05/24/1999 21:55	Wilmington	NC	USA	Formation	2 lights on the left and 4 lights on the right. all golden in color and same intensity heading at 330`.	05/24/1999
Open	10/16/1997 05:34	Hickory	NC	USA	Fireball	I was outside when I saw a red "fireball" moving in an oval pattern.	06/03/1999
Open	04/01/1999 21:00	Greensboro	NC	USA	Fireball	i took a break at work. stepped out back. while looking to the south east , i saw a bright green fireball heading towards the ground .	05/07/1999
Open	05/10/1999 03:00	Oak Ridge	NC	USA	Triangle	at apox. 3am I woke up to the dog going crazy and a strange hum.outside my father and I saw an object just sitting on the tree line	06/23/1999
Open	07/05/1999 00:07	Knotts Island	NC	USA	Unknown	6 of us were in a boat in the dark and looking at the stars, we noticed what appeared to be like a vapor trail that was way up in the s	07/06/1999
Open	07/06/1999 22:30	Stokes County	NC	USA	Chevron	Observed object moving rapidly across the sky. Very bright lights, I could easily see a distinct > shape.	07/06/1999
Open	08/02/1860 23:00	Cherokee	NC	USA	Fireball	meteor or fireball passage	07/18/1999
Open	04/20/1999 20:00	Rockingham (by Racetrack)	NC	USA	Triangle	Driving on US 1 North hovering south of Race Track spinning with light on each corner of Triangle. Started moving along road for about	07/20/1999
Open	02/18/1960 21:00	Winston-Salem	NC	USA	Cigar	It was on a Full Moonlit night, while snowsledding, a friend called to me and said , "look Bill, what in the world is that?"	07/22/1999
Open	06/01/1998 21:30	Mt. Airy	NC	USA	Light	We where at a drive in movie, it was my family and my fiance. My mother first noted the objects. Due to her recent outpatient surgery	07/25/1999
Open	08/12/1999 03:58	Apex (N 35 41 25 W 78 45 01)	NC	USA	Triangle	A very large triangular aray of (3) lights seen in the east and moving rapidly north north-west.	08/12/1999
Open	08/19/1999 15:45	Wilmington	NC	USA	Triangle	Rolling triangle seen moving in front of storm system.	08/19/1999
Open	10/26/1997 22:00	Charlotte	NC	USA	Triangle	I spotted two triangular craft over the treetops........	08/22/1999
Open	08/22/1999 13:30	Rocky Mount	NC	USA	Circle	I thought I saw a parachute or a balloon coming down from a heavy bank of clouds, then saw it zig-zag falling-leaf fashion.	08/23/1999
Open	12/15/1998 10:00	Rocky Point/Hampstead (Rural area outside of)	NC	USA	Sphere	Hunter views UFO and is later buzzed by two military aircraft.	08/21/1999
Open	08/15/1988 21:00	Highlands	NC	USA	Rectangle	we were driving down the main st. of town.it was huge! drifting over a building at one end of town the lights in town dimmed then went	08/27/1999
Open	08/23/1999 02:30	Wilmington	NC	USA	Disk	wife walking dog in yard. heard humming, she looked up and seen disk hovering over our house	08/26/1999
Open	07/07/1999 21:00	Charlotte	NC	USA	Changing	Silent hovering glowing object	08/29/1999
Open	09/17/1979 20:10	Fayetteville	NC	USA	Cylinder	Missing time involved. Other witness remembers nothing. Tractor beam taking water aboard craft. 5 miles downrange, appeared 300 feet	08/27/1999
Open	08/31/1999 21:10	Madison	NC	USA	Circle	Me and my Family were out in the front lawn watching two jet planes flying in the same direction NE_SW,when far above the clouds was an	08/31/1999
Open	07/15/1999 21:50	Charlotte	NC	USA	Changing	Glowing object blue and white	09/06/1999
Open	08/31/1999 23:30	Matthews	NC	USA	Chevron	A large chevron black craft floated over a park and parking lot. The craft made absolutely no noise.	09/07/1999
Open	06/01/1995 22:30	Supply	NC	USA	Unknown	We spotted a craft moving VERY slowly and in complete silence approximately 200ft above us shining lights all about as if searching.	09/10/1999
Open	09/11/1999 21:58	Charlotte	NC	USA	Light	When looking in the sky, I saw a light moving very high up in the sky, It wasn't blinking like an airplane and moving to slow to be met	09/11/1999
Open	09/11/1999 22:50	Nantahala National Forest (Center of)	NC	USA	Light	What we saw was a patch of illumination that was somewhat rectangular and vertical in orientation. It was approximately 30 degrees abo	09/15/1999
Open	09/18/1999 01:38	Kill Devil Hills	NC	USA	Formation	5-6 pale orange lights brightness of major Orion constellation stars viewed at 33 dgr from horizen moving due south together for 45 dg	09/18/1999
Open	09/01/1999 06:00	Lincolnton	NC	USA	Changing	Glowing object in morning sky	09/19/1999
Open	09/17/1999 05:35	Western North Carolina Mountains	NC	USA	Fireball	I saw a brilliant flash in the southern sky going from East to West. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor?? PD))	09/24/1999
Open	09/25/1999 02:00	Franklin	NC	USA	Circle	Recently my mother and myself have witnesst a white light with red and blue lights flashing around it.We have witnesst it together and	09/26/1999
Open	10/17/1999 21:00	Warrensville	NC	USA	Light	There are five or more lighted objects that are spaced apart from one another and they are sparkling with multi-colors.	10/17/1999
Open	10/14/1999 20:30	Warrensville	NC	USA	Circle	husband saw a colored flash of light that stoped in the sky.we looked out and saw 1 just latter it returned with 2 others which changed	10/19/1999
Open	10/26/1999 07:05	Concord (Near)	NC	USA	Other	Objects travelling westward, bright lights revovling.	10/26/1999
Open	10/26/1999 18:00	Charlotte	NC	USA	Light	Approx. 6-8 jets in sky. @ bright shining objects like small stars standing still. As one jet moved toward them, one moved away at a mu	10/27/1999
Open	08/20/1993 23:15	Selma	NC	USA	Oval	Saw a orangish yellow oval move very suddenly and make an immediate right hand turn.	10/31/1999
Open	11/05/1999 18:44	Raleigh	NC	USA	Disk	See Image attached to email, seen this while scanning some online live webcams.	11/05/1999
Open	11/07/1999 03:00	Charlotte	NC	USA	Light	glowing light on dresser in house(shaped like a very brite glowing glass pea-nut jar). was not a reflection and was not a flying object	11/11/1999
Open	11/09/1999 20:00	Burgaw	NC	USA	Light	I was traveling south when I saw a blue-green light with an orange-yellow tail come from the sky in an east to west direction. It disap	11/16/1999
Open	11/16/1999 23:00	Rocky Mount	NC	USA	Light	WE IST SAW BRIGHT MOVING LIGHTS,MOSTLY WHITE.THEY APPEARED TO HAVE POWERFUL SEARCH LIGHTSTHAT SCANED A LARGE AREA.WE THEN SAW A STRING	11/18/1999
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