NUFORC Sighting 104692

Occurred: 2013-11-22 17:40 Local
Reported: 2013-11-22 21:14 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Durham, NC, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Landed

Bright red light performing maneuvers and landing

(Addendum to earlier report) Earlier I described my sighting of a strange red light that I saw today. This light rose in the air about 200 yards in front of me and a friend while we were parked in my car facing NORTHWEST. This was around 5:40 EST. In a populated area with intersections, restaurants and bargain centers. The sun had gone down but it wasn’t totally dark yet. The object seemed to have structure but the light was all that could be seen.

When it first caught our attention it was rising from at least 50ft from the ground. As it rose slowly it seemed to come closer to us but mainly going straight up. It elevated around 500-600 ft then it stops suddenly and at that point we both were puzzled because this wasn’t normal flight maneuvers for anything I’ve seen in the sky and this was so close. There were no sounds coming from it. Now that it’s closer it appeared to me there were actually two red lights instead of one but both were bright and bled into each other. They were side by side but seemed to both be on one object. I couldn’t make it out clearly, but it looked like above the lights there was structure.

The object at that point seemed to slowly spin 180 degrees now showing white lights. Then it moved to the left and right at different speeds stopping on a dime. Very controlled and deliberate, as if showing off. Not very fast, but too fast to start and stop, changing directions as it did. Then, it shown red again and went away from us, we both got out of the car to get a better view and it lowered behind some trees maybe a quarter of a mile away. I could see the red light looked to have landed in a clearing and out of view. I kept looking and 45 seconds later it appeared again rising from the area it had lowered to. It came back to the same area it was before in front of us. It performed similar maneuvers again and moved very fast, up and down left and right. Then it went away behind the trees again once more. I never saw it after that.

The size is hard to estimate, maybe the size of a compact car. The shape seemed saucer like but was not flat. It moved in ways I’ve never seen before, very stable and strict. It seemed to be controlled by intelligence.

Posted 2013-12-02