UFO Sightings in North Carolina
3,393 UFO sightings reported in North Carolina since 1945, peaking in 2014 (282 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 3,393
- Span
- 1945–2030
- Peak year
- 2014 (282 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1945–2030 · peak 2014 (282 reports)
Top cities in North Carolina
Charlotte
1973–2030 · peak 2014 (20 reports)
Raleigh
1975–2022 · peak 2014 (13 reports)
Greensboro
1961–2021 · peak 2014 (8 reports)
Wilmington
1974–2022 · peak 2012 (7 reports)
Fayetteville
1962–2021 · peak 2013 (9 reports)
Asheville
1972–2022 · peak 2012 (6 reports)
Durham
1981–2021 · peak 2015 (8 reports)
Winston-Salem
1945–2022 · peak 2013 (6 reports)
Cary
1998–2021 · peak 2012 (7 reports)
Hickory
1966–2022 · peak 2012 (5 reports)
Gastonia
1992–2022 · peak 2011 (8 reports)
Oak Island
2005–2021 · peak 2012 (5 reports)
Holden Beach
1982–2020 · peak 2012 (7 reports)
High Point
1982–2020 · peak 2016 (5 reports)
Jacksonville
1967–2021 · peak 2005 (4 reports)
Nags Head
1973–2019 · peak 2014 (5 reports)
Concord
2000–2021 · peak 2012 (3 reports)
Carolina Beach
1987–2020 · peak 2014 (6 reports)
Morganton
1980–2019 · peak 2011 (3 reports)
Mooresville
1995–2020 · peak 2016 (4 reports)
Morganton · NC, USA
Orange light splits into three pieces
Charlotte · NC, USA
Cigar shape craft with lights inside over Charlotte
Fayetteville · NC, USA
Missing time involved. Other witness remembers nothing. Tractor beam taking water aboard craft. 5 miles downrange, appeared 300 feet
Sanford · NC, USA
cigar shaped crft with white light flashing from window to windows.
Tarboro · NC, USA
Triangle craft seen in Eastern North Carolina.
Boone · NC, USA
Large silent cylindar spotted on ASU campus, Boone NC, with large light, hovering just above treetops
Court House Bay · NC, USA
FROM THE DISTANCE OF THE STARS AND HOW FAR APART THEY WERE THE SPEED HAD TO BE OFF THE CHART.
Cherokee · NC, USA
This silver disc shaped object was spotted hovering back and forth in and above the tree line above the creek everyone tubed on.
Thomasville · NC, USA
2 sighting a month apart, 1st being red lights engulfing my car, 2nd being 3 triangle crafts in a circle formation with white lights.
Lexington · NC, USA
Night siting of a black trangle
Buies Creek · NC, USA
While living on the edge of the campus of Campbell College in Buies Creek, NC I saw a large saucer shaped object on the ground.
Huntersville · NC, USA
UFO near switchyard of nuclear power plant.
Windsor · NC, USA
saw while parking with girl friend. rising full moonin back ground. 25 ft up. f 50 yrs away over field. hovering. completly silent. one
Kannapolis · NC, USA
A close encounter!
Cherokee · NC, USA
Unknown white orb followed by approxmately 4 known objects
Monroe · NC, USA
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
Hickory · NC, USA
Large triangle shaped craft traveling west on Hwy 70, Hickory, NC, at almost midnight. ((NUFORC Note: Highly reliable witness. PD))
Fayetteville · NC, USA
fayyetville,NC true ufo sighting 07/04/1978
Shelby · NC, USA
A bright light that turned into 2 lights and shot off in two separate directions.
Rose Hill · NC, USA
no noise, no lights, aircraft was hovering above my parents house without making any noise
Kernersville · NC, USA
My family and I saw a saucer hovering over our field. There is missing time. and I could tell of another instant when I was six but…
Goldsboro · NC, USA
An orange glow in distant wooded area looked like a flower blooming into a large fire ball, then just faded .
Asheville · NC, USA
Big As House, Rows of Brightly Lit Windows, Silent
Columbia · NC, USA
As I stood in my yard the object came toward me. Hovered above my yard at 100ft for ten mins. Rotated west and moved on.
Thomasville · NC, USA
The even occurred North of Mt Calvary Rd on Old 85 on April 14, 1977. I left the library at UNC-Greensboro just about 10 pm to drive h