By: Roger Marsh
Two North Carolina teenagers at Nakina report watching a series of “red glowing lights” that hovered near the tree top level and seem to appear regularly on Thursday nights about 9 p.m., according to October 1, 2012, testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The two brothers – ages 14 and 16 – were returning home from a junior varsity football game about 9 p.m. on Thursday, September 13, 2012, when they stopped their vehicle to shine a spotlight on a nearby deer. The younger brother first noticed the unusual light and alerted his older brother.
“It was a single, red/orange glowing circle above the tree tops off in the distance and then it just hovered there for a few seconds and then disappeared,” the 16-year-old witness stated. “Within 5-10 seconds after that, the light came back more to my right, then another lit up and then another in a line one-by-one. I was so shocked, I just stared and reached for my phone to take a picture, but in the process the lights went away.”
This is not the first time the witnesses has seen similar lights in the sky.
“This isn’t the first time we’ve noticed these lights. It was about the fourth time and the times before this we just thought they were airplanes, but the common things about it were the dates and times. They were all on Thursday nights around 9 p.m. in the same South/southeast direction.”
No images or videos were included with the MUFON report, which was filed on October 2, 2012. Nakina is in unincorporated Columbus County, NC, along Highway 905 north of Pireway on the southern end of the state. The above quotes were edited for clarity.