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)
Hickory · NC, USA
Obj seemed to be a unusually bright light, what I thought might be the north star, but 3 times as bright. ((NUFORC Note: Venus? PD))
Wendell · NC, USA
Bright light exiting atmosphere.
Reidsville · NC, USA
Last night around 8:00pm I was outside with me dad and I looked straight up and a very bright flash hit my eyes. I asked my dad did you
Charlotte · NC, USA
11/03/16; 15 white lights traveling west to east in Charlotte NC at 19:10. 2-3 minutes observing them
Sanford · NC, USA
I had went to my back porch to make sure the door was locked when I saw a huge bright light in the sky. ((anonymous report))
Charlotte · NC, USA
White very bright burst of light.
Mooresville · NC, USA
2 really bright lights separately lit up my room, each lasting about 2.5 seconds.
Charlotte · NC, USA
Starting on Tuesday, October 18th around 6:30pm in North Carolina, I noticed that just above the sunset was what I thought was a star..
Vale · NC, USA
Bright white light at low altitude moving extremely fast from SE to NW No sound. ((anonymous report))
Raleigh · NC, USA
I seen a orange looking light, at a low altitude, moved extremely fast in the sky.
Wilmington · NC, USA
Bright green neon laser light.
Hamlet · NC, USA
3 bright, red, blinking lights, flying low in the eastern sky, Hamlet, NC.
Myrtle Beach · NC, USA
Very fast orange lights.
Wilmington · NC, USA
Aquamarine light in the sky.
Holden Beach · NC, USA
Four orange then two separate groups of 5 white lights in each group moving uniformly off the Holden Beach, NC, coast.
Cornelius · NC, USA
A bright round light burst in the sky from nowhere. No sound. Appeared to be just behind and above the treeline. Like a sun.
Pittsboro · NC, USA
We did not get a very good look at this object. I am only reporting this in case someone who got a better look does also so that their
Thomasville · NC, USA
Repeatedly flashing light seen illuminating night sky in same area of sky. No weather events were occurring at this time. Light was ver
Mooresville · NC, USA
We saw lights, 2, then four BIG lights, then near this light start like coming out small lights moving different directions.
Apex · NC, USA
Bright green light sparking in sky near Lake Jordan.
Garner · NC, USA
Me and my roommate was talking on the back deck of my house while gazing at the stars. My roommate said to me look and I turned my head
Mills River · NC, USA
My niece, and I saw 5 bright orange lights moving fast across the sky. They were moving faster than an a/c. ((anonymous report))
Mills River · NC, USA
My niece, husband and I, saw 2 orange slow moving lights moving across the sky. I looked through my binoculars. ((anonymous report))
Fayetteville · NC, USA
It rose up into the sky and to the blind eye it was just a bright light but in my camera it changed colors. It moved up and down and ba
Raleigh · NC, USA
Very bright light in evening sky where neither a star nor planet should be and then 3 pulsating lights came through the trees.