Stange glowing cloud seen by many over pamlico sound north carolina.I will try to relate this event in as much detail as possible but please understand that this event was as difficult to witness as it is to describe.I was outside sitting on a pier with 2 of my friends on a clear balmy june evening. We were looking at the sky(There is virtualy no light pollution on ocracoke island so stargazing is as involuntary as sneezing around here).We noticed very high up some of the "stars"moving in erradic patterns.At first we thought we were seeing very high planes but then they would grow brighter and fade while moving at high speeds.We could not tell if we were seeing one object appear and reappear in another part of the sky or if there were several.Each time we would see a bright flash that faded as it moved sideways.We have all seen this before,we agreed it was a strange thing to see but we have always blown it off as military aircraft since we live close to so many airbases.After watching these lights for 30 minutes or so(they appeared in the south and to the west)we noticed a dim cloud high to the west over the pamlico sound.It was difficult to make out at first but as we watched it appeared to grow in size and brightness.The cloud was extermely high it looked as if it was occuring in the outer atmosphere and it was its own source of light.The 3 of us flabbergasted decided to go to the southern tip of the island to get a better look.As we walked the cloud kept getting brighter and took on a strange greenish hue similar to the bioluminecent green we sometimes see in the waves at night.Once we got to the state ferry dock the cloud had elongated and formed an arc.There at the docks many others had gathered to look at the massive glowing cloud.There was an air of silent awe and disbelif as people were asking each other,what is it?One man started yelling that we were all witnesses to a major event in history.This is history here!! he kept yelling.My friends and i decided to move away from the gathering crowd so we found a small pier to sit on and watch.As we sat there the glowing cloud seemed to be sort of billowing sideways extending itself in a slowly lengthining round tubilar form.It looked to me as if something massive had entered the atmosphere and was slowly making its way down through the diffrent layers.THIS IS VERY DIFFICULT TO DESCRIBE.The inside of the cloud had small wisps in it that were brighter than the gas around them.They had longish tails and ranged from white to light green.I asked each of my friends to describe to me what they were seeing so that i could be sure i was seeing what i thought i was seeing.One of my friends said that to her the shape of the cloud looked like the long curved neck of a crane(the bird).As an hour,then 2 passed the "arc" OR "cranes neck" had turned on its side as it decended lower in the sky and continued to spead out.As it spread the light it carried weakened and the wisps within the cloud disappeared.By 2 in the morning the cloud had completely turned on its side and continued to spread out growing ever dimmer.At three oclock there was still a faint glow in the sky although the shape of the cloud was nolonger decernable.I must backtrack here to try to better descibe what appeared to have happened.It was clear that the cloud had begun much higher than where it vanished.There was a clear sense of depth and dimension in the clouds shape and movement.It seemed that its entry into the atmosphere had affected it via the different layers of air and tempreture it had passed through.By this i mean to say that the turning motion of the cloud appeared to be caused at least in part by air currents.(yes all of this was visable even at night,that is how bright and massive this thing was)What was I thinking?First it was frightening,an event of that magnitude no matter what is a major deal.I came to many conclusions with my friends.1,it was a collision of whatever aircraft we had been witnessing before.2,It was an outer atmosphere nuclear test by the military.3,it was an electromagnetic blast caused by HAARP experiments or 4 We were finally being invaded by someone from out there.But none of these theories explained very much.On its own the cloud was a magnificent phenomena but coupled with the other strange lights in the sky it becomes simply unexplainable a UFO.As I sat in silence with my friends watching the cloud disappear i assumed i would read of it in the paper,or see it on the news,no matter what i thought i would pursue it for the rest of my life.It never made the news that i could tell.My friends contacted others on the nieghboring Cape Hatteras sea shore.Even as some descibed seeing the same cloud thier sightings differed from ours by hours.I decribed this event to a good friend that also lives on the island but was not present that evening,he told me that he had been told the same story a year earlier by a man living on the mainland.The event that I witnessed with so many others had been seen before in the same place.It has taken so long for me to report this because i was unaware of this website.I am hoping that someone else who was there that night will also end up here in thier search for answers and put down thier own description of this awesome event.It may never be revealed to me what this was but it will always remain clear and unforgettable in my mind and i am quite pleased to have seen it.((NUFORC Note: Date of the sighting may be approximate, although the witness does not indicate that fact. PD))