NUFORC Sighting 165869

Occurred: 2021-11-26 20:00 Local
Reported: 2021-12-15 11:47 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Swift Creek, south of Raleigh, NC, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

Five pulsing green lights and a large object that blocked out much of the sky, followed for five minutes

On the day after Thanksgiving, November 26 (i.e., Black Friday), I was visiting my parents for the holiday with my wife and two young sons (7 months and 2 years old) in an area known as Swift Creek (an unincorporated area just south of Raleigh and just east of Cary, NC). Though I live out of state now, I’m familiar with the area as I grew up there.

My wife wanted to visit Crossroads Plaza in Cary, North Carolina for a quick Black Friday shopping stop, we brought our younger son and left our older son at home with my parents. On the way back from shopping, we pulled into Brass Lantern Court, it was a few minutes before 8 pm.

My wife and I saw five pulsing green lights and a large object, beyond the trees, out of the front window. The object was like a rectangle with a triangle on one side --- I don't know what this shape is called but, basically, imagine a rectangle and on one of the short sides of the rectangle imagine a triangle. This is clearly the same lights/object that is visible on these links below, however, these links show the object far away, but I saw this right above me in the cul-de-sac of Brass Lantern Court and followed it during a short drive:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AvU3-MThF3w

The pulsing green lights, the slow and stable (almost hovering) movement, and the dimensions of the object in these videos are exactly what I saw right above me, blocking out much of the sky.

I saw it first and mentioned it to my wife, who was in the backseat taking care of our seven-month-old. When I first saw it, I was driving down Brass Lantern Court, I imagine the object was above the cul-de-sac of either Tupenny Lane or Dawsons Mill Run (shown on map). Initially, for the first few seconds or first minute as we were driving down Brass Lantern, the object was mostly visible through the pine trees but part of it was visible above the tree line.

As I drove down Brass Lantern Court to the cul-de-sac the object came over the tree line of the Brass Lantern Court cul-de-sac and banked at what appeared to be at about a 30- or 45-degree angle compared to the ground, pretty much above the cul-de-sac and the lawn next to the cul-de-sac. So, I could see the object more or less right above me and without any obstruction.

A structure was clearly visible with five green lights at the edges. I could see a normal dim glow of the night sky behind the object and five lights and in between the five lights, it was completely dark, indicating a solid object. It was a clear contrast to the dim glow of the night sky. The object wasn’t far from me but I could not hear any sound. Had it occurred to me, I should have lowered my car windows but even with windows up, it was kind of shocking to see something so large, hovering and then moving, and to have the soft hum of the car engine be the only sound that was audible at the time.

In the moments I saw it unobstructed in the cul-de-sac of Brass Lantern Court, the object filled much of the front windshield of my SUV. I would guess it was about 2 to 4 times higher than the tree line and if I extended my arms and held a piece of paper at arm’s length, this object took up about the same amount of my visual field as say an A2 or maybe even an A1 piece of paper. Probably closer to A2 size, I think. So, someone can do the math as to an estimated size of this object --- 2x-4x higher than the tree line (these are the common pine trees you find all over NC) and it would have filled a space in my visual field equivalent of about an A2 paper (or a bit larger) if my arms would be extended out.

The object began moving down Brass Lantern / Penny Road (i.e., towards the west or towards to southwest), so I turned around in the cul-de-sac of Brass Lantern Court and drove back up the street. I’ve attached a map to illustrate the short route I followed while I still had visual contact. But, basically, to put the route shown on the map in words: I drove up Brass Lantern Court, turned left on Old South Road, turned right on Penny Road, and followed it down Penny Road for about three minutes. There was continual visual contact through the drive shown in the map. I lost visual contact after driving over Lake Johnson. I thought I could catch it but I came up the hill after passing the bridge on Lake Johnson and I could not re-establish visual contact. The map represents the route we took following the object. The start of the map is Brass Lantern Court and the end of the map is the point we lost sight on Penny Road. After losing visual contact, we continued down Penny Road for ten or fifteen minutes but could not see anything so I went back to my parent’s home to drop off my wife and seven-month-old.

My wife has a better camera on her cell phone than I have so I asked her for her cell. As I was in the front seat, she gave it to me as I turned on Penny Road but her phone basically died as soon as I started filming the object. I took out my cell phone which doesn’t have a great camera (original Surface Duo) but by the time I could start filming we'd lost sight of the object. I was driving and trying to film at the same time so I wasn't that fast.

I went out immediately afterward with a good Canon camera with a full battery, which I picked up at home, but could not find the object or see it again.

In total, including the drive down Brass Lantern (one min or so), a few moments in the Brass Lantern cul-de-sac (one min or so), and the driving trying to follow it (as shown in the map, three min or so), the object was visible to my wife and me consistently for about five minutes.

Any of the movements performed would be possible for a drone or maybe a helicopter --- I did not see the object do anything that, say, a drone could not do. But the object was massive, it blocked out a large part of the sky (or a large part of my front windshield) when it was directly above me and higher than the tree tops and completely silent the whole time. It hovered, changed direction, and moved very quickly within five minutes.



Posted 2021-12-19

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