NUFORC Sighting 165886

Occurred: 2021-12-15 20:45 Local
Reported: 2021-12-17 09:24 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Ocean Isle Beach, NC, USA
Location details: over the ocean

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects

Sighting began with 2 orange glows proceeded by small randomly pulsating white lights. Then the lights moved back and forth in the sky.

At about 8:45 pm, while sitting on an ocean front balcony, I noticed 2 orange glowing orbs in the sky above the water that suddenly "appeared". These faded after about 10 seconds. I thought a boat had sent up fireworks, but there was no sound nor any boats that I could see. After a few seconds, in the spot where the orange glows had been, I saw many tiny white lights flickering in a round pattern. This lasted a few seconds, and then there appeared larger star-like lights pulsating at different intervals in what seemed to be a triangular pattern. The "object" (just lights were all that were visible) began to move back and forth across the sky at a relatively medium pace. At times, the lights would completely disappear, but then return after 5 - 10 seconds. After about 5 minutes of this, 2 of lights seemed to separate quickly and become 2 completely different "objects" with the same intermittent (sometimes rapid) flashing lights, and both began to travel back and forth across the sky. This went on another 15 minutes, when lower on the horizon 3 more orange "glows" appeared and soon faded. When I looked back to where the original objects had been, they had disappeared and did not return. There was no sound. There was no blocking of stars as they moved back and forth, as if the lights themselves were not a part of anything, just on their own. But you could definitely tell that they were a part of something as the intermittent flashing lights stayed within the confines of a pattern. Very strange indeed.

Posted 2021-12-19

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