North Carolina UFO Sightings
07-?-1944 Charlotte, NC
Joanne Broome, Lola Helms, Marion and Susan Carter all witnessed five UFOs, with domes, silver skin and green halos, hovering above their homes.
01-09-1948 Clinton, NC
The object was bright red, bright enough that it could be seen through the clouds, and, it had a green tail-like protrusion extending from its cone body. Witnesses said that the object displayed a variety of acrobatic feats for more than half an hour.
1980 Photo
Airliner traveling from Dulles, DC airport to Jacksonville, Florida. Pilot and co-pilot both observed a delta wing shaped object with what appeared to be small objects flying at an altitude of about 21,000 feet. They watched them as they came towards them and then passed under the airliner probably at 1,000 feet beneath them. Estimated size was just "large". Said it was really smoking. They called radar & asked what just went by them and radar said they saw nothing up there with them. Duration was less than one minute and was directly over Greensboro, NC.
From The Charlotte Observer -- Charlotte, NC June 12, 1989
THOSE WHO KNOW UFOs GATHER IN LINCOLNTON
Steve Bond and Susan Lightcap were traveling south of Ashevillein Transylvania County one night two years ago when they suddenly saw the light. It was a large, fuzzy yellow light. Bond, who had been trained to spot aircraft during his three years in the Navy, had never seen anything like it. The pair drove 10 miles before reaching the light, which Bond said hovered 1,000 feet above U.S. 64. They stopped the car and got out. "I said, 'That is no helicopter because helicopters make a lot of noise,' "Bond recalled. The silent object then vanished without a trace, he said. With that, the two friends joined the ranks of people who say they have seen unidentified flying objects. They came to Lincolnton from Asheville Sunday to meet with others who either claim to have seen UFOs or have investigated reports of the alien ships. George Fawcett, who has investigated 1,200 such reports worldwide over 45years, hosted the gathering at his home on Battleground Road. Fawcett, 59, takes his work seriously but still keeps a sense of humor about it. "My wife had me down as a UFO one time," Fawcett joked to the 23 people who exchanged UFO literature and first-person accounts during the gathering. Lincolnton resident Danny Barger has never seen a UFO, but he knows were they reportedly were sighted. Barger has made a map of all reported UFO sightings in North Carolina, with a pin stuck in each location. It reflects 829 reported sightings through 1988."And this is probably only 10% of what has been seen," Fawcett said. Fawcett said reported UFO sightings tend to come in waves, the last big one in North Carolina in 1973."Sometimes we have the most reports when there's no publicity at all," he said. Fawcett became interested in UFOs as a teenager reading a newspaper account headlined, "Silver Balls Floating in Air (Are) Nazis' Newest War Device." In fact, the account did not confirm where the objects came from. Fawcett has since amassed 35 filing cabinets containing UFO documents. He also just became president of the N.C. unit of Mutual UFO Network Inc., a self-described international scientific organization that studies and researches UFOs. At Fawcett's home, network members and their guests celebrated the 42nd anniversary of UFO sightings in modern times. They looked at UFO books and newspaper clippings with such headlines as "UFO Chased By Car" and "I know UFOs are real because I've seen one." Fawcett said a Gallup poll last year showed that about half of all Americans believe UFOs are real. Bond acknowledged that other people "are already waiting there with their response to disprove it." "Something unknown and unidentified is threatening to them." In an effort to inform the public, Fawcett is now trying to raise money for a $4 million UFO museum he hopes will be built in North Carolina. After all, he says, the state was home to the first airplane flight.