Light UFO Sightings in North Carolina
716 light-shaped UFO sightings reported in North Carolina since 1967, peaking in 2014 (66 reports).
- Total sightings
- 716
- Span
- 1967–2022
- Peak year
- 2014 (66 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1967–2022 · peak 2014 (66 reports)
Bessemer City · NC, USA
Bright as a star. It could zoom at thousands per hour or stop and sit still.
Ocean Isle · NC, USA
Large golden red light coming on and then going out, several times in the night sky.
Kure Beach · NC, USA
Strange Orange Lights seen off Carolina and Kure Beaches, North Carolina
Greensboro · NC, USA
Bright light
Mocksville · NC, USA
Bright light hovering over tree line
Spring Lake · NC, USA
Large light very high in night sky, no sound, could have been ISS.
New Bern · NC, USA
Strange Lights over Eastern NC.
Great Smokies National Park · NC, USA
A stationary white dot was observed for 10 minutes.
Maiden · NC, USA
Unknown Lights ((NUFORC Note: Possibly the star, "Sirius." PD))
Charlotte · NC, USA
Two motionless, intense, white lights around 100' above ground
Bakersville · NC, USA
I walked into the woods alone!
Candler · NC, USA
Bright light faded to nothing
Washington · NC, USA
50-75' lights hover than streak away out of sight
Charlotte · NC, USA
dimming light that rotated counter-clockwise and then shot across the sky and vanished
Kannapolis · NC, USA
A long light, like a star that moved fast and kinda sparkled. Moved in full view, low in the sky in less than 60 seconds
Mebane · NC, USA
saw a bright light with red and green lights sitting in the sky, too slow for a plane,moving very slowly to the north.
Pireway · NC, USA
One orange light divides into two
Charlotte · NC, USA
Blinking Object In the Sky
Surf City (Topsail Island) · NC, USA
Many craft coming from and returning to a paticular fixed object in the sky.
Charlotte · NC, USA
Craft moves at least 43,200 miles per hour
Oak Ridge · NC, USA
Bright light skipping around at approximately a 60 degree angle from ground. I Much brighter than any other object in the sky.
Manteo · NC, USA
3 strange lights 7/1/03 outer banks nc
Kitty Hawk · NC, USA
Strange glowing haze like light over Kitty Hawk NC.
Asheville · NC, USA
I saw a bright light that seemed to be sucked into another dimension when I looked at it, and there was a loud "booming" sound as it di
Charlston · NC, USA
((NUFORC Note: Possible hoax? PD)) Cloud over the ocean at night, glowing from within, duration around 10 minutes. We saw no craft.