2004-11-01 - Fuquay Varina, NC - Triangle

Huge, slow moving, silent, black triangular shaped craft flying at very low altitude.

I was new to the area at this time and was by myself driving on a two lane road outside of Fuquay Varina, NC.

It was a crystal clear night without a moon when I spotted four large round lights glowing softly off to the right side of the road ahead about a quarter of a mile away. They seemed to be motionless at first and my first thought was that they were lights on top of a communications tower because of the numerous towers in the area.

Then I realized that tower lights were just small blinking lights there to warn aircraft of their position. These lights were large, about 3' in diameter, they didn't blink, and they had a soft glow like a child's night light, not like a spot light, and they didn't light up the ground or anything around them.

Then I noticed they weren't stationary, but they were moving very slowly towards the road that I was on. I started to slow down and realized that it was going to cross over the road right over my head if I slowed down enough, which I did. I rolled down the windows of the car so I could hear it but there was no sound at all.

There were trees lining both sides of the road that obscured my sight of this object as it got nearer to me but I finally slowed down to the point that I came to a complete stop on the road. I hadn't seen any other cars on this road at all and hadn't passed any houses for miles, so it was pretty much an isolated and deserted part of the country, so I was safe to sit at a stop on the road with my car idling, windows down with my head out the window and looking up as the front of this thing appeared over the tree tops and slowly and silently floated overhead.

It wasn't more than a couple hundred feet high at the most because it wasn't much higher than the pine trees alongside the road. Its speed made me think of a blimp cruising along. It was black and blended in with the pitch black night, making it very hard to see the exact shape of it inspite of being so close, but I could make out what appeared to be panels on the uder side of the craft as the front disappeard over the trees on the opposite side of the road.

It continued to glide in total silence at a very slow speed until the back of the craft appeared over the trees on the right side of the road and then disappeared over the treetops on the left side of the road. I couldn't see the whole craft at one time because of the trees so the exact size and shape is hard to determine for sure, but because of my occupation I can be considered a very reliable source for size and shape estimates, and I believe what I saw was in a triangular shape and was at least 300' long and 150' wide.

And the strangest part about it is that as it passed over me not more than 200' to 300' overhead, I didn't see the four large round lights that first brought my attention to the object. I was directly under the craft so they might have been located on the sides and not visible from where I looked up at it.

I have only told a few people about this experience because nobody seems to believe anything that can't be explained, and that things that don't fall within our general knowledge of things just can't be true and must have been imagined. But I know what I saw and I didn't imagine anything.

And this wasn't something that was in the distance either. It was only a few hundred feet away from me at the most. It was huge, totally silent, moving very slowly, and because it was either painted black or made of a very dark material it was almost invisible against a black night sky.

I'm glad I finally found a place that I can tell about this experience because it's been on my mind for the past year and seems so significant that it should be told.


((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident in November 2004 is approximate. PD))