Ronda Moore was working the night shift at a group home in Franklin, North Carolina the night of January 7, 2023. When she stepped outside for a smoke break about 10:15 p.m., she saw “a bright ball moving steadily across the sky.” She was able to snap a few photos which are shown above.
A year earlier, Ronda saw something similar but much more dramatic.
“That was when I saw a UFO moving westward from Balsam Mountain Ridge. I immediately jumped up to get my boss to tell him I was seeing a UFO. As he looked up, the UFO split. A smaller one and then a second small one came out of the original UFO. Then all three continued on the same path and stopped. The first and bigger UFO sent a bright beam of light downward and both little ones zipped straight up and were gone.”
Like many UFO witnesses, Ronda has seen multiple UFOs over the years. On the night of the lunar eclipse in May 2022, she saw “two UFOs zig and zag across the entire sky.” She says “they would come together and then part but stayed close together.”
She’s also seen a UFO take off from land at Yellow Mountain; a triangular UFO over Walmart in Sylva; and another triangular one come out of the water at the Wolf Creek Dam. All of her sightings have been in Jackson County, North Carolina.
EDITOR’S NOTE: We received this witness report on November 8, 2016 from a man who identified himself but requested that we use only his initials C.T.
I just found your site and wanted to give you my sighting report. I live near Mount Airy in Surry County, North Carolina (county in red). I have looked and looked to find a person with a similar sighting and have yet to find one that resembles what I saw. I can’t remember the exact day but a few years ago around 10 or 11 o’clock, I was sitting outside on the porch looking southwest. I was gazing at the stars and noticed one that was peculiar. I remembered some talk about Venus around that time so I was thinking it might be Venus. As I kept watching, the “star-like” object seemed pretty innocuous but it seemed to get higher above the tree line. We are in a small valley. Across the road is a steep hill/small mountain. The light seemed to gain distance between it and the top of the hill.
It continued very slowly until I realized it was not gaining altitude, it was coming toward me from the southwest. Slowly I was able to make out the light which was attached to the foreword center of a craft of some sort. Eventually, I could see the dark shape against the dark purplish grey sky. It was relatively low to the ground. It is hard to estimate, but I would say it was about 300-500 feet from the ground. Compared to my thumb at arm’s length, it was about the size of my whole thumb. Its shape resembled a policeman’s shield-like badge. Once the shape was clearly visible, I was amazed it could fly since its appendages were by no means wings and it was slow moving not hovering – surely not “flying.” I have attached a drawing of the outline of the bottom of the craft (R). Then I felt the eeriest feeling while I was watching it – that it also was watching me and was aware that I was watching it. I started to feel slightly scared in a hard to describe way.
Not too long after feeling like it was watching me, it banked slowly and gently in a tight turn heading west. The turn was far too tight for normal flight. Immediately the sense of being watched went away. I then watched it between the gaps in the trees from the wooded area beside my house. There was no sound during the sighting but shortly after it banked and turned, I could make out a faint drone sound, however, there also was a high-altitude aircraft at the same time with standard aviation flashing lights. The UFO traversed the sky slowly. From the time I noticed the light to the point where I could not see it any longer, was approximately five minutes. I reported my sighting to MUFON and they contacted me for an interview about the sighting. I’m still baffled by what I saw because it moved so slowly and so silently. NOTE: The above image is CGI.
