State Report
UFO Sightings in North Carolina
5,694 sightings on record from 1860 to 2023, drawn from the National UFO Reporting Center databank.
Total sightings
5,694
Share of US total
2.65%
Peak year
2012
472 reports
Top shape
Light
1,117 reports
Years active
163
Sightings by decade
reports / decadeTop shapes reported
all-timeLatest 20 sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | Shape | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-13 | Greensboro | orb | 2x - 1st 10 min 2nd 3 hr | AM sighting of a bright intense light that was hovering over tree line and a PM sighting with 2 crafts of the same... |
| 2023-12-13 | Benson | disk | 1 minute | Driving up Raleigh road turning right. Right on to Zack's mill road. We saw what look like the planet Saturn. In front... |
| 2023-11-29 | Fairmont | other | About 5-10 seconds. | Small light-colored object moving very fast then instantly disappeared. |
| 2023-11-27 | Manteo | light | 25 seconds | I saw 3 lights staggered in distance coming from the north to the southeast |
| 2023-11-09 | Elkin | disk | 15-20 seconds | A silver metallic disc rising vertically from the ground. |
| 2023-11-06 | Greensboro | orb | 30 minutes | Rotating, purple lights that split apart, fly separate directions & spark electricity between them once separated. Orbs... |
| 2023-11-04 | Clayton | formation | 57 second | Flashing lights in formation. No plane silhouette seen. No tail lights |
| 2023-10-30 | Burlington | changing | Five minutes | Looked up into sky at the moon, saw a whitish-silver, rounded double decker bus shaped object flying in a northern... |
| 2023-10-29 | Marshville | sphere | 30 seconds | Large bright solid white round object with orange light surrounding it. Silent no trail |
| 2023-10-21 | Monroe | fireball | 1 minute | Bright orb with erratic movement |
| 2023-10-21 | Charlotte | circle | 2-0-25 minutes | At @ 9:45 PM last night, my husband called to me to come out to the yard to see 'a light.' |
| 2023-10-15 | Waxhaw | light | 30 seconds | Camera caught a strange what appears to be a beam from the sky |
| 2023-10-13 | North Wilkesboro | star | 10 mins | I took multiple videos of these Star like objects, the enclosed video shows 2 of them meeting at the little dipper |
| 2023-10-11 | Gastonia | oval | 30 seconds | Tumbling large red circular shape that was changing shape and moving NNW and didn’t appear to be too far above the... |
| 2023-10-08 | Wake Forest | circle | Continuous | Saw 3 circles of light |
| 2023-10-04 | Pinehurst | disk | — | Taking dog out and looking up at the sky I saw the object and wrote down the time when I got inside! |
| 2023-10-03 | Greensboro | cigar | 20 seconds | White Cigar Shaped Craft |
| 2023-09-30 | Clyde | rectangle | 20 seconds | Me and my family saw a large rectangular reflective craft above our house for about 20-30 seconds. |
| 2023-09-30 | Forest City | triangle | 30-60 mins | I've been seeing these for months. It's triangular in shape with red and sometimes white |
| 2023-09-23 | Huntersville | flash | 5 seconds | 3 individual bright flashes of light and a separate large orb of light. |