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)
Newport · NC, USA
Bright blinking rows of lights with a red light that changed position, hovering in the northern and northwest sky.
Waynesville · NC, USA
Large glowing disk at Max Patch, NC...... abduction?
Mooresville · NC, USA
Three large, round, bright orange lights coming together in the form of a rotating triangle
Zebulon · NC, USA
It was a circle shape with a very bright Florissant lights glow to it
Mooresville · NC, USA
4 bright lights traveling at a very high rate of speed.
Leicester · NC, USA
Digital pictures of alien ship in Leicester NC
Charlotte · NC, USA
Grayish object flying fast North to south over Independence Blvd
Emerald Isle · NC, USA
Three vertical rows of huge bright red lights observed in Emerald Isle, NC over the ocean under Mars in the sky.
Asheville · NC, USA
Boomerang shaped object, glowing pink, red and yellow flying south.
Kannapolis · NC, USA
triangular reddish reflective object flying South
Wilmington · NC, USA
Multiple orange lights over ocean in eastern sky of North Carolina
Shelby · NC, USA
Round, lighted object over Shelby, NC, hovered then zoomed away. ((NUFORC Note: Possible hoax?? PD))
Kure Beach · NC, USA
2 groupings of 3 and 4 bright orange round lights over the ocean horizon off the shore at Kure Beach, NC.
Clarkton · NC, USA
This was a reddish vertical streamer that drifted to the south and was in the western sky.
New Bern · NC, USA
SEVERAL SMALL CRAFT WITH VERY LARGE WING SHAPED CRAFT THAT MADE NO NOISE
Garner · NC, USA
Bright white light moves across sky and stops suddenly and reverses
Wilmington · NC, USA
Fireball O'er Wilmington, NC. Unexplicable illuminations
Oak Island · NC, USA
3 green lights in horizontal formation converged into 1 bright orange light, 3 oranage lights reappeared in triangular formation
Charlotte (Matthews) · NC, USA
Saucer shaped object hovers then suddendly dissappears, only to reappear again
Cary · NC, USA
walked out on back deck at twilight time red -white lite just above tree line cruises by heading west very very fast no noise or trail
Kannapolis · NC, USA
Multiple sightings of star like object moving in rapid precise movements across the night sky. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Sirius? PD)
Topsail Island · NC, USA
((HOAX??)) silver disk.
Charlotte · NC, USA
Disk-Shaped Objects w/ Red and White Lights Over Incoming Flight Path of Charlotte-Douglas International Airport
North Wilkesboro · NC, USA
Diamond-shaped light flying silently
Clayton · NC, USA
Steady bright white ball of light moving above tree line and then disappears in cloudless sky