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)
Kure Beach · NC, USA
2 redish orange lights over the horizon over the ocean. they kept pretty level, looked like one liht, then two, moving side to side
Hendersonville · NC, USA
Bright white light very low altitude
Hendersonville · NC, USA
large super bright object traviling low and slow
Greensboro · NC, USA
It was a slow moving bright white light heading north
Wilmington · NC, USA
Triangular gold foil rolling across the sky
Applachian Mountains · NC, USA
((HOAX/STUDENT REPORT)) Flyby of a Dead Alien w/ Red Blood on it.
Apex · NC, USA
Going on ten min now west sky ovet apex. Hoovering aprox 2500 feet.wow. its not of this world.
Raleigh · NC, USA
Cloaking plane
Raleigh · NC, USA
Saw strange light weaving and circling nearby lake
Cary · NC, USA
plane's head lights, but the headlights were pointing down & the plane must be flying backwards???
Four Oaks · NC, USA
to fast moving shiny objects beside passenger plane over n.c.
Greensboro · NC, USA
A slow moving bright white light growing brighter then dimmed to a small dull point with similar dull point of light moving slowly dull
Raleigh · NC, USA
Rising light in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Celestial bodies?? PD))
Holden Beach · NC, USA
large bright fireball
pks · NC, USA
2 pulsing lites moving s-n
Ocean Isle Beach · NC, USA
4 reddish-orange lights, 3 of them closer together over the ocean, flashing on and off in a sequence.
Durham · NC, USA
Red light stationary in sky for well over 15 minutes
Raleigh · NC, USA
V-Shaped Craft Hovering Above the Intersection of Six Forks Road and I-540 in Raleigh NC
Fayetteville · NC, USA
One white light moveing very fast and irraticly over hope mills/fayetteville for over 4 hours.
Laurinburg · NC, USA
SAW A FALLING STAR THEN SAW A LINE OF BRIGHT WHITE LIGHTS MOVING UNLIKE ANY CRAFT IVE EVER SEEN MADE NO NOISE THEN VANISHED VERY FREAKY
Jacksonville · NC, USA
bright white light flashed across sky for quick second, possibly meteor, or military affiliated
Gastonia · NC, USA
Unknown blue object sighted in the southern sky , south of Gastonia, N. C. USA ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Sirius? PD))
Salisbury · NC, USA
blue light over salisbury NC
Yadkinville · NC, USA
Yadkin County NC Lights
Robersonville · NC, USA
Row of lights outside Robersonville, NC