THINK ABOUTIT UFO SIGHTINGS REPORT
Date: summer of 1966 or 1967
Sighting Time: 10:00 PM
Day/Night: Nighttime
Location: Greensboro North Carolina
Urban or Rural: Urban neighborhood, people sitting on front porches.
Entity Type: None (Witnesses only saw the craft).
Entity Description: N/A.
Hynek Classification: NL (Nocturnal Light) Point or extended luminous source observed at night.
Duration: We had eyes on the craft for approximately 30 minutes.
No. of Object(s): 1
Appearance / Description of the Object(s): The craft was delta / triangular shaped and was surrounded by what I call electronic iridescence. It changed colors sort of like an oil slick but looked a little fuzzy. We could see the stars being blacked out as it moved across the sky. We could only see the underside of the craft.
Distance to Object(s): Because we could see (green and red wingtip lights)and hear local airline traffic in the background we knew it was much lower than those. My guess is it was about as high as a private plane would normally fly.
Shape of Object(s): delta / triangular shaped
Size of Object(s): This is a tough one. My guess is maybe about 50-60 feet across, but it could have been bigger.
Color of Object(s): electronic iridescence
Number of Witnesses: 5 in my group, many more across the area.
Special Features/Characteristics: Silent propulsion, extreme acceleration (streak of light), electronic iridescence, radar confirmation from an Air Force base near Washington D.C
Source: Reported To Think AboutIt by D
Summary/Description: We noticed a delta shaped craft approaching slowly from the West and as it came directly overhead it turned and left the area slowly on a NNW direction, all the while making no sound. We watched it for about 15-20 minutes before it was out of sight. About 10 minutes later we saw it returning along the same trajectory slowly, and when it got back overhead about 10 minutes later it accelerated away so rapidly that all we saw was a streak of light. We had eyes on the craft for approximately 30 minutes. We were naive teenagers, recent HS graduates, and we assumed it was something the Air Force was testing up until it left in an instant streak of light. Then we got very excited and tried to call the police and the local newspaper. the lines were busy for a while and when we finally got through they answered with “You saw it too, huh!?!” Evidently a lot of people in this county and this area saw it as well. Back in those days people sat out on their porches in the evenings and enjoyed catching a breeze. Back then we had a 2 daily papers and the next day the evening paper , The Greensboro Record, had a short article about the event which stated that many people across the state had reported seeing the craft, and the Air Force base near Washington D.C. reported that it had tracked it on radar and launched interceptors. When the interceptors were approaching the VA/NC state line the craft accelerated away so fast that it disappeared off their radar and they returned to base. I have always considered this as government confirmation of our UFO sighting.
Historical Context: The 1966-1967 UFO Wave
The mid-to-late 1960s represented a significant “wave” of UFO activity across the United States, and North Carolina was a primary hotspot. During the summer of 1966 and 1967, thousands of citizens reported triangular or “delta” shaped crafts that exhibited flight characteristics far beyond the capabilities of contemporary aerospace technology. This Greensboro account is particularly notable because it occurred during the height of the Condon Committee era—a formal study funded by the United States Air Force to investigate the UFO phenomenon.
The witness mention of the Greensboro Record newspaper article is a vital piece of local history. During this period, local papers were often the only outlet for citizens to corroborate their experiences before the advent of the digital age. The fact that the phone lines were “busy” suggests a mass sighting event that overwhelmed local infrastructure, a common occurrence during significant nocturnal light (NL) events.
Technical Analysis of the Greensboro Craft
The description of “electronic iridescence” and an appearance like an “oil slick” is a recurring theme in high-strangeness reports from this decade. This visual effect is often theorized by researchers to be a byproduct of a high-energy propulsion system, potentially ionizing the air around the hull of the craft. The “fuzziness” noted by the witnesses could indicate a gravitational or plasma field distorting the light passing through it.
Furthermore, the radar confirmation mentioned by the Air Force base near Washington D.C. provides the “Gold Standard” of evidence: multi-sensor corroboration. When a visual sighting by multiple ground witnesses is backed by hard radar data and scrambled interceptors, the event moves from a subjective experience to a documented physical reality. The craft’s ability to outpace military interceptors at the state line—moving so fast it “disappeared off their radar”—is consistent with the “Instantaneous Acceleration” observed in many top-tier UFO cases.
The Significance of Social Observation
An interesting sociological aspect of this report is the mention of people sitting on their front porches to “catch a breeze”. Before air conditioning was widespread, the “porch culture” of the 1960s meant that many eyes were naturally turned toward the night sky, making it much more difficult for anomalous crafts to pass through urban airspaces unnoticed. This collective observation by a community of teenagers and adults alike adds a layer of credibility that is often missing from solitary witness accounts.
The 1966-1967 Greensboro sighting stands as a textbook example of a “high-credibility” encounter. It transitions from a quiet neighborhood evening into a dramatic military event, corroborated by radar and newspaper reports from The Greensboro Record. The witness’s description of “electronic iridescence” and the craft’s ability to outpace interceptors at the state line suggests a technology that was, and remains, decades ahead of human capability.
While the Condon Committee eventually concluded that there was no evidence of extraterrestrial visitors, cases like this one—with multiple witnesses and official radar tracking—continue to challenge that skepticism. For the teenagers on that North Carolina porch, the event wasn’t just a news story; it was a physical reality that changed their understanding of the world. Today, as we revisit these archives, the Greensboro sighting reminds us that the “Golden Age” of UFO sightings was defined not just by what was seen in the sky, but by the hard evidence left in its wake.
