NUFORC UFO Sighting 187626
Occurred: 2025-02-08 19:30 Local
Reported: 2025-02-10 06:08 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Weaverville, NC, USA
Location details: Drive way

Shape: Orb
Color: White light
Estimated Size: Commercial Jet
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: East
Angle of Elevation: 75
Closest Distance: 15000
Estimated Speed: 400 mph
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

Multiple craft seen flying over. Some in formation others at random elevation.

Got out of my vehicle and looked up to look at moon and and saw numerous craft in the sky fly from East to West. Many around the same elevation as commercial jets and the rest at varying higher elevations. I'm use to see commercial craft making their turn to land at Asheville Regional Airport, or heading to Charlotte. These had no blinking lights, but were very bright. Could not make out the shape, but appeared to be same size as commercial airliners. Some were in triangle formation and some were side by side. Made zero sound. I could see occasional commercial jets flying east, around the same elevation, with blinking lights, but they made noise. These objects were flying around the same speed as the commercial jets, with the ones at higher elevation flying a bit faster. I have never seen that many aircraft in the sky, so close, ever before. Even late at night if fighter jets fly over, way up, you can hear their sound a minute, or so, later.

These craft continued to fly over for a period of about 5 minutes, nonstop. The majority were bright orbs. Even after I went inside to get my wife to come see, she was able to count around 10, while I witnessed around 20 before getting her. After about 5 minutes, clouds moved in at that was it. These maintained same altitude, and I would say around 10000 to 15000 feet. Possible secret military aircraft. Possibly drones. But if I saw that many airplanes in the sky at one time, it would have been loud.

Posted 2025-02-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 158511
Occurred: 2020-08-11 00:00 Local
Reported: 2020-08-13 16:41 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 4

Location: Mad River, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Left a trail, Landed, Possible abduction

There was a huge blinding light and a loud sound. About 5 little aliens were observed through infrared binoculars hopping off the craft. Aliens were observed sticking needles into family dog. witnesses heard their dog screaming as if it were being killed. On the morning of August 13, 2020, four witnesses observed the dead dog on the ground. Witnesses said dog was smashed. Days before leading up to the evening of August 12, 2020 witnesses observed tracks and paths on the ground. It was assumed the tracks were bear tracks. Upon a closer look, witnesses realized it was not bear tracks. Witnesses reported hearing grass swish and hearing a weird clacking sound. Upon sunrise or shortly after witnesses could see the aliens in a tree. Witnesses shot several rounds at the aliens in the tree and one alien drooped out of the tree and fell down a steep embankment. Witnesses were to freaked out to go down the embankment to see if there was a dead alien laying there. At about 10:00 a.m. on August 13, 2020, when the shooting ended, witnesses said aliens were gone from the tree. Witnesses believe the aliens are still on the property. Witnesses did not hear or see an alien spacecraft leaving the property. Witnesses reported circles in the grass. There are pictures. Due to shear terror and trauma witnesses are inconsolable and are not able to send the pictures right now. Witnesses said it hard to explain exactly what aliens look like. Aliens were described as being 3'tall. Witnesses heard a rustling noise underneath their home and believe the aliens were trying to get in the home. Witnesses and residents have left their home and will not be staying there tonight. Observers are farmers and the property owner has lived there for 25 years. Witnesses are not on drugs or alcohol and have no mental health issues. Witnesses are not convicted felons.

Posted 2020-08-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 157575
Occurred: 2020-07-04 22:30 Local
Reported: 2020-07-13 00:38 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 3

Location: Weaverville, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Emitted other objects, Changed Color, Missing Time

3 backpackers see very strange lights appear in the wilderness while hiking the Trinity Alps, followed by a missing time event.

On the night of 4th of July 2020, my two other buddies and I (all of us friends for 20+ years since high school) were backpacking in the trinity Alps north of Weaverville, Ca. We had been backpacking 9 miles on the Caribou lake trail into deep wilderness that day. It was a perfectly clear night, 10:30pm. We all were talking, sitting by a fire when I saw a bright white light appear over a nearby mountain ridge, stationary, hovering at Upper Caribou Lake. It hovered for roughly 3 minutes. It took me by surprise as I thought (at first) it was a planet but it started to slowly move upward, very slowly. I yelled OMG, UFO. My two other friends jumped up and by the time we all reached the edge of the lake (away from the treeline) it was gone. I was the only one that saw this first sighting.

Later that night around 11:30pm as we stayed up and moved away from the fire and sat at the lakes edge, one of my friends was alarmed at a series of odd blinking lights straight above are heads. We all looked up and the lights continued to blink in a random pattern far away from each other, too far apart to be a passing plane. Weird colors amber, red, then bright white. At one point we saw a streak of light continue into more blinking lights that seemed unattached to any know plane or craft of known origin. All three of us confirmed the sighting as it happened. I remember the last set of blinking lights being very intense with a super bright amber light flashing quickly a fair distance away from the other flashing lights we had just witnessed. This second sighting of the night lasted about two minutes and crossed half way over the visible sky from are vantage point. We've seen many planes flying at night and this string of flashing lights didn't match up to anything we've ever seen.

I will note there was no bangs, or typical sounds related to any fireworks. Plus, we were in the deep wilderness far away from any nearby town.

Lastly, about 30 minutes after the blinking light event, I was standing near one of my friends while the third friend was walking behind us (again near the lakes edge) The friend closest to me and I felt a strange since of missing time as it felt our third friend had vanished or was suddenly placed sitting on a nearby rock. The friend sitting on the rock said he was sitting there the whole time. Granted it was late and we all were very tired at this point, but the fact my buddy closest to me and I felt the same experience caught us by surprise. We both immediately confirmed the experience and talked about it.

These events were odd, as my two friends and I have been backpacking many times in the wilderness and have witnessed several times over the years odd lights in the sky. But, only when all three of us are together on these hiking trips. We feel there is some kind of pull towards us being more receptive to these experiences. Very strange.

I could go into more detail about our other sightings over the years but I will keep this short as to be more relevant with this current sighting.

Thank you for reading this count. I'm an illustrator/ digital artist and could illustrate the light event if needed for more documentation.

Best to you!

Posted 2020-07-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 156136
Occurred: 2020-05-02 13:05 Local
Reported: 2020-05-02 12:34 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Weaverville, NC, USA

Shape: Rectangle


Aircraft with 3 unknown objects surrounding

I was sitting on my porch and seen an airplane that had 3 triangle in shape, much smaller than the airplane flying as if in a format along with the plane. I did get a picture but they went into some clouds and you cannot see them clearly. You can although see the 3 images around the plane.

Posted 2020-06-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 142585
Occurred: 2018-08-05 21:30 Local
Reported: 2018-08-05 19:23 Pacific
Duration: 8 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Weaverville, NC, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

We saw several orange lights in the western sky NW of Weaverville, NC, around 930 Sunday night, August 5th.

My wife and I were walking west on our street around 9:30 tonight. As we continued we could see an orange glow through the trees. When the trees cleared we could see several (5-7) orange lights grouped tightly together. We continued walking and watching the lights and thinking what the hell is that.

We stopped at the cul de sac to see if the lights were moving. They were slowly moving right in the western sky we think over 1000 feet in the air. The lights moved away faster but low on the horizon and finally disappeared. Our guess is that it lasted 8 minutes.

We didn't bring either of our phones.

We came back to the house and I looked up UFO on the internet, and I found your website.

Posted 2018-08-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 135619
Occurred: 2017-07-26 22:00 Local
Reported: 2017-08-09 09:47 Pacific
Duration: 10-15 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Weaverville, NC, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

Red sparkiing lights appeared in a dark sky hovered a few miles from us for about 10 minutes - then blinked out with one flying away.

At 10 pm on this moonless night full of stars, I went out on my 2nd story deck looking NE towards a large dark mountain in the distance. (We live in the country and there are no visible houses or lights in this direction.) I first noticed 3 large sparkling red lights. I assumed they were stars - all in a vertical row in front of this mountain in the valley. They were not moving but glowing very red.

I called my boyfriend to come look. We noticed two more red lights rise up behind the trees together side-by-side to a 4th position in the line with one then dropping into a 5th position. A 6th red light appears at the bottom just over the trees at the end of this vertical line. Red light number 1 seems to be getting smaller – but does not seem to be moving. Then it disappears, and the line moves upward. #2 then disappears, and then # 3 disappears. A bright red light appears briefly over to the left then also disappears.

During this viewing time – maybe 10 -12 minutes – some of the red sparkling lights disappear and then reappear in the same position. They all appear to be hovering in this valley within a few miles of us.

As the other lights just blinked out, the top red light starts to move away to the upper right and gets smaller and smaller, until it is just a dot as if flying away. It doesn’t just blink out like the others.

Posted 2017-08-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 124842
Occurred: 2015-12-24 19:30 Local
Reported: 2015-12-26 09:44 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Weaverville, NC, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Driving north on future 26 towards Mars Hill between Flat Creek exit and Juliter Rd we saw 8 or 9 red orange lights hovering in an almost upside down Y pattern.

At first we thought it was space debris as it was raining and overcast so the stars were completely blocked out.

I know the car ahead of me saw it because they pulled over.

The objects just hovered despite heavy wind.

Never saw anything like it before in my life.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2016-01-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 101593
Occurred: 2013-08-25 22:00 Local
Reported: 2013-08-26 08:04 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Weaverville, NC, USA

Shape: Other


Two large objects from the east, silent and moving together, diverged and went separate directions.

On Sunday, August 25 at about 10:15 PM, I went outside with my pair of Gen.3 night vision binoculars to view the sky. I live near Asheville, NC. I saw several shooting stars and a couple of airplanes.

I then noticed, coming out of the east heading west, two brightly lit object that seemed to be pretty high up, perhaps 15 or 20,000 ft. They were close to one another, and proceeded to move at the same speed and, while maintaining the exact same pace with one another, began to slowly diverge, with one object heading north, the other heading south. They showed no plane lighting configurations, but seemed to be self-illuminated, of a oval or round shape, with a dark spot at the bottom of each object and another lighted section below the darkened area. They were silent and had to have been huge in size. This lasted 4 or 5 minutes.

Posted 2013-08-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 101685
Occurred: 2013-08-25 19:00 Local
Reported: 2013-08-30 06:46 Pacific
Duration: 10-15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Weaverville, NC, USA

Shape: Cylinder


Cylinder-shaped, silent UFO over Western NC

This is the second UFO I witnessed in two days. On Monday, August 25 at around 7:00pm, I walked out of my house to get something from my car.

As I was walking to it, I glanced up and saw what I first thought was an airplane at about 5,000 ft. above my head. I quickly realized that it had no wings, tail fin or rudder. It was a metallic, cylinder or tube-shaped object, with no markings except a black band around the center of the object. It was totally silent, with no contrail or other evidence of propulsion.

It moved across the sky and out of sight within 10 to 15 seconds. It went from east to west. It was slow enough to observe in the clear blue sky, but too fast for me to run into the house for a camera.

This was the 4th UFO sighting I’ve had since 1973, but was the clearest and most dramatic.

Posted 2013-08-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 98653
Occurred: 2013-06-03 23:00 Local
Reported: 2013-06-15 19:15 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Weaverville, NC, USA

Shape: Circle


Bright unexplained light captured on video traveling over Weaverville, NC.

Our group witnessed a bright light traveling at and just below cloud level over Weavervile, NC, in the Reems Creek area. The object made no noise, had no navigational lights, and was not high enough to be a satellite. We were able to see the object through night vision, and captured it on film.

Posted 2013-07-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 95792
Occurred: 2013-01-03 20:03 Local
Reported: 2013-01-03 20:35 Pacific
Duration: 7 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Weaverville, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere


night sighting and not a convential aircraft

2043 PST from Weaverville, Calif 96093

Orange light in sky traveling from southwest to northwest at a fast speed. This is similar to my previous report in that it was the same general location and same color although this time the object was moving at great speed and at a greater distance from me(size of object was much smaller then my previous report.

Although the distance was greater then my previous report I estimated the angle from my location was 70 degrees from first observation to its disappearance and I timed it as a 7 second sighting. 1 Mississippi 2 Mississipi ....

Posted 2013-02-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 95733
Occurred: 2013-01-01 20:01 Local
Reported: 2013-01-01 20:24 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Weaverville, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

Unfortunately it has to be classified as a light in the sky. But it was more then just that!

I was standing on my porch looking west south west and observed a large orange fireball in the western sky. No tail but it appeared to be getting larger.

At first I thought I was observing a possible super nova or an atomic exposion in space.

I stepped inside and grabbed my binoculars and when I returned to the porch (5 seconds later) it was gone.

I stepped out in the yard and observed all the night sky and could not spot it.

Posted 2013-02-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 85682
Occurred: 2011-12-03 19:15 Local
Reported: 2011-12-04 17:56 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Weaverville, NC, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby, Landed

me and 3 friends saw two weird orbs of speeding light to the north and south of weaverville.

Me and 3 of my friends were messing around outside when me and one of my friends saw a greenish-blue orb flash across the sky headed south at speeds no earth craft could even imagine reaching so we told my other two friends about it and i went in to get my video camera.

About ten minutes later I was messing with my camera when my three friends saw the same looking orb of light shoot down from the sky to the the north of us. They said it looked like it fell from the sky. After that we did not see anymore activity.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD


Posted 2011-12-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 77276
Occurred: 2010-08-15 23:30 Local
Reported: 2010-08-17 13:50 Pacific
Duration: about an hour
No of observers: 2

Location: Weaverville, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object

orange ball of light spotted at trinity lake weaverville california

we were camping at tannery in trinity lake outside of weaverville california. sitting by the camp fire watching stars. i look up and notice a star that is a bright orange in color. figuring it was a star i notice movement. continue to watch i figure it was a comet or satellite but soon wrote that off. the bright orange object moved up down left right and did a few figure 8 patterns. the light would also go away from its position .. (would be bright then go out)...then return to its position. the person sitting next to me witnessed the same movement for verification. another coincidental weird factor was the thunder lightening and showers that followed twenty minutes later. the skies were crystal clear ...the storm rolled in ...thundered and lightening ...rained then went away like nothing ever happened. i think the storm might be a coincidence just due to the fact that the entire sighting was so overwhelming? but we saw an orange ball of light. we saw our first Unidentified Flying Object.

the next day there was a millitary huey helicopter that flew around for a couple hours as well. again that could have been a coincidence...but i think the nearest military helo pad is about an hour away?

Posted 2010-08-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 73485
Occurred: 2009-11-27 05:30 Local
Reported: 2009-11-27 08:56 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 1

Location: Weaverville, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Electrical or magnetic effects

Bright pulsating stationary light, changing positions quickly.

I saw a bright light in the sky on November 27, 2009 between 5:30 a.m. until 6:40 a.m. I was woken up at 5:30 a.m. by my dog doing one of those low 'berf' barks dogs do. I noticed it was lighter than usual outside, but dismissed it as me not being a morning person. My dog would not stop making that low sound so at 5:40 I got up to put her and my other dog, outside. By then, the brightness from outside was gone. My patio door faces North and it was clear outside except a very few horizon clouds.

When I got to the patio door I noticed a really bright 'star or Venus' in the sky. It seemed strange because I have never seen 'Venus' so high in the sky, nor a 'star' so bright. The light was stationary, very bright and twinkling two different pulses. I looked at it for about 8 seconds. When opening the patio door, I looked down for about 5-6 seconds or so to keep the cat from getting out; as I closed the door, I looked back at 'Venus', however, it had moved visually 5 feet over to the West, and 2 feet to the North! I know it was in a different position because when I first saw it I compared the position in the sky to the plant on my patio railing. I looked at it for another 10 seconds or so to determine that it was definitely stationary in the sky.

I closed the curtain, because my dogs will stare in the patio door instead of doing their business, and went over to a window on the same wall and two feet over from the patio door (taking about 2 seconds to do that). I could not see the light anymore. There are no large objects on my patio which would block out the area where I saw the light, in fact I have a very clear view of the sky from the entire North side of my house. I got right up to the window searching for the light all over the sky and horizon. Did not see anything but a few regular stars.

About 3 minutes later I let my dogs in and saw the light further down on the horizon, just above the clouds and more toward the West visually about 1 foot above the horizon, above the town water tank. I had looked in that area minutes before and did not see it there. It appeared further away because it was about 3/4 the size as when I first saw it. I went outside stood there for approx. 5 minutes watching it. Getting cold, I went inside and watched it for 45 minutes. I watched the light stay in exactly one position, still very bright and still twinkling 2 different pulses. There were tiny flashing lights that would pop up all around the sky near the light at different times, about 8- 10 of them. At one time a cloud passed in front of it, but it was still there once the cloud moved. The clouds slowly went away, and now it was completely clear. After 45 minutes,I walked over to grab a chair to sit in to watch it, when I returned seconds later, the light was gone. I ! right away started to e-mail my Mother, when I noticed my computer was 2 hours off. I had not been that way the night before because I always check the time while I am e-mailing someone. What was strange about it was that the light would be stationary, then be in a totally different area in the sky within seconds. Unfortunately I never saw it actually move, I just happen to look away each time it relocated.



Posted 2009-12-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 96309
Occurred: 2009-08-23 16:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2013-02-14 09:15 Pacific
Duration: 6 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Salyer, CA, USA

Shape: Cylinder


Sighted 2 white cigar shaped craft traveling parallel just above the tree line crossing river

I was sitting at the Trinity River swimming hole below my house when I noticed a white cigar looking craft traveling southward. It exited the tree line into my view about a quarter of a mile away, crossed the river, and disappeared into the tree line on the opposite bank. It was smooth and silent, no fins. I thought it was a government drone plane looking for pot fields.

5 minutes passed then a second craft, same as the first, emerged from the tree line and crossed the river about a quarter of a mile up-stream from where I saw the first. It moved at the same constant speed as the first and had no visible markings either. They seemed to be traveling a parallel path.

I've been looking for an image that matched what I saw that afternoon ever since, but I've had no luck.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD


Posted 2013-02-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 68428
Occurred: 2009-02-03 20:00 Local
Reported: 2009-02-03 20:20 Pacific
Duration: outer structure spinning
No of observers: 2

Location: Weaverville, CA, USA

Shape: Egg
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted beams

It looks to me like "it's" trying pose as a star or planet

Very, very bright white w/yellow "gleams" that seem to surround the horizontal structure moving side to side (left to right) (right to left), Moving vertically once in awhile to reposition above the distant horizon It's still there Wow! Thanks for taking the time to read this...report




NUFORC Note:

Sighting of Venus or Sirius?? PD


Posted 2009-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 39964
Occurred: 2004-10-24 23:17 Local
Reported: 2004-10-25 21:04 Pacific
Duration: approx. 4-5 seconds
No of observers: 0

Location: Weaverville, NC, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Left a trail, Changed Colo

I saw a ball of white light plummet at a 45 degree angle, with the white tail displaying bands of color (spectrum) just before impact.

I was traveling north on 19-23 at 11:17 pm on October 24. It was between mile marker 26 and 24. I saw a ball of bright white light plummeting at approximately a 45 degree angle, very fast. The ball was not perfectly defined--it appeared to have motion, whirling, with bright light coming out of it. There was a white tail. The ball of light was about three-quarters to a full size of what would be considered an ordinary full moon. In the instant before the ball disappeared from sight, about a third of the length of the tail (the portion of the tail closest to the ball) displayed colors as in a spectrum, in distinct, separate bands of distinct colors, being of fairly wide breadth. The bands of color were perpendicular to the tail, not lengthwise. And the rest of the tail remained white. I heard no crash, there was no display of light as in an explosion, I heard or felt no rumble or shudder. It was just gone.



NUFORC Note:

Possible meteor. PD


Posted 2004-10-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 9608
Occurred: 1999-09-01 21:30 Local
Reported: 1999-09-08 00:00 Pacific
Duration: Aprox 2 min.
No of observers: 5

Location: Lake Trinity (Aprox. 30 miles north of Redding, CA), CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Emitted other objects, Changed Colo

Witnessed a bright red ball of light floating across the sky, much slower than a metor, that broke up into several parts and left an orange trail, but never burned out.

On Wednesday, Sept, 1, 1999 at aprox. 21:30 I observed a very strange object floating asross the sky. It was also observed by 4 friends of mine who were houseboating with me at Lake Trinity, which is aprox. 30 miles north of Redding, CA. My friends and I were sitting outside, on the lake when one of them noticed a very bright red ball of light moving very slowly across the sky. We quickly turned out all the lights to get a better look. The red ball of light apeared to be very low in the sky. It was moving in a West to East direction. At first, it looked a bit bigger than the largest star in the sky. As it traveled, it got somewhat larger. Trailing behind it was a smaller bright white light which looked like a star at first, but it was travelling at the exact same speed and exatly the same length behind the red ball of light throughout our sighting. After about 20 seconds the red ball began to split and turn a brilliant orange color. It left a trail of orange pieces that continued to follow the main body of light. There were between 4 and 6 of these "tails" following the main body of light. We watched this for aprox. another miniute to a minuite and a half. It never burned out, but rather disapeared behind the mountains to the East of out boat. It was moving very low and too slow to be a meteor. When we saw this, we had just finished cleaning up after diner and were not drinking at the time. None of us have ever seen anything like it. We are all college graduates in out late 20's. We are a close group of friends who spend our vacation together on our anual houseboating trip. I have a degree in Biological Science and I cannot explain what I saw that night.

Posted 1999-09-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 5964
Occurred: 1999-03-19 16:20 Local
Reported: 1999-03-19 00:00 Pacific
Duration: forty seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Weaverville, NC, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Two black helicopters following possible object near Parkway entrance

Two black helicopters flying about 200 feet above the ground went across the valley very quickly. I may or may not have seen an object- there was a brief orangish flash that might have been the sun behind the mountian. There was no reason for those helicopters to be in this specific area in this time- I'm reporting this mainly to corraborate an earlier report of black helicopters pursueing a UFO.

Posted 1999-04-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 79432
Occurred: 1988-06-01 04:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2010-12-31 00:44 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Trinity village, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown


satellite in orbit takes sudden right angle turn and disappears.

I was sleeping under the stars in July, or early August after a long night of amateur astronomy. My eyes opened about 4:00 AM, judging from the constellations overhead. I looked directly above me, and was caught off guard by a very slow moving satellite in orbit exactly overhead. It was pretty faint. I was barely able to detect its movement except that I watched it for over a minute, and I could see that it had slowly moved against the backdrop of stars, making its way southward. Then, without warning, the satellite took a sharp 90 degree turn and accelerated to an incredible amount of speed in a westward direction. Within a fraction of a second it was gone. From what I remember I only saw it for a few moon lengths after it had taken the right turn before it was gone from view. I was in my early teens at the time. I refused to believe I had seen something extra terrestrial since I was a big science buff, and had always observed the scientific consen! sus refute UFO's as having been extra terrestrial spacecraft. For over 20 years I didn't even think about what I saw until I began hearing the myriad of other UFO recounts that described lights taking sudden right degree turns like the one I saw. It's still hard for me to accept that what I saw was extra terrestrial, but whatever I saw it seemed to violate the laws of physics, at least in terms of propulsion.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2011-01-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 21473
Occurred: 1987-03-01 19:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2002-01-18 06:31 Pacific
Duration: 2 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Weaverville, NC, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams, Changed Colo

UFO IN ASHEVILLE N.C. 1987

this was a long time ago but I saw the same crft in the jan 2001 report same one low to the ground 700 ft a low hum sound I AM NOT KIDING I'M FOR REAL LOW SPEED LIKE IT WAS GOING ABOUT 45 MPH AND WHNT A ROUND IN A CRUCLE 4 MILE RADIS AND IT TUOKE OFF IN THE AIR LIKE A COMET BUT VRICLY.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2002-01-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 76612
Occurred: 1982-10-08 18:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2010-07-17 16:23 Pacific
Duration: unknown
No of observers: 24

Location: Weaverville, NC, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams

Bell shaped UFO with lights hovering without sound.

Buncombe County, N.C.

It was 1982, I believe in October, and probably within a half hour before the sun went down. It was on 19-23 at the Jupiter-Barnardsville exit. The object was not obviously metal and did not reflect light and if I guessed how far off the ground it was I would think roughly 300 ft but no more, and the size was large and if it landed it would have likely took up the width of the median and both sides of the roadway.

It was bell shaped and the bottom of it had three lights (I believe 2 blue and 1 red) and shining down from the center was a single white beam of light that was uniform size from where it came out of the object all the way to the ground. The object was hovering without sound directly above a section of ground between Old Mars Hill Hwy and the ramp that takes vehicles from Jupiter Rd up to 19-23S with the light shining directly down between Old Mars Hill Hwy and the ramp. There was some dust or vapor that appeared to be moving inside the beam of light.

I might not have believed my eyes but there were cars pulled over on both sides of the highway and people were looking at it, the way I would have liked to, but my boyfriend who was driving was so scared he wouldn’t pull over and only slowed down enough to get a good look. I do not know how long it hovered there.

Even now, the guy who is now my ex-husband says that yes he saw something, there were cars pulled over and yes it scared the hell out of him.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2010-07-19