Alabama UFO Sightings in 1975

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Very low, very slow flying, silent, black trapezoid viewed by 4 family members for about two minutes On the particular UFO sighting night, I had been out of doors for quite a while and was getting chilled and tired of the lawn chair. The duration of my stargazing session was probably from around 8 PM to nearly 10PM that nite. Just to be safe, I'd say that the hours from 730PM to 11PM found me outside looking up.

Well about the time I get up to go inside, my mom or dad, comes out back to get me. Here's the odd part. I'm right outside a little ways into the back yard (which is chainlink fenced for our dog) to be apart from the ambient light from the house.

We had sliding glass doors to the back yard and a small concrete patio. So I'm out in the yard and instead of going right into the den through the sliding doors I get up and walk north to the yard fence gate and go through it around to the carport and enter the house through the utility/laundry room into the kitchen. I took off my coat and may have had a blanket to put away and then go into the kitchen which opens into the den.

Huh.no family in the den??? Wonder where they went, I'm thinking? About that time they all ( both parents, older brother, and younger sister) come back into the house through the sliding glass doors into the den. The ensuing conversation goes something like this.

Where'd you guys go?-I ask. Out back looking fo you! -they replied. All of you?-I ask.

Yea,.did you see it? See what? The UFO! No,.you guys are kidding me, right? NO! didn't you SEE it? No, I didn't.

Where was it? What did it look like? It was right over the house, It was HUGE, black and made no noise! They all were looking at me quite seriously and no acting or practical joking was going on because my disbelief and smiling about their responses should have cracked at least my little sister's composure. She was about10 -11 years old at the time. You guys are joking, right? No! they insisted.

How big was it? What color was it? What did it do, where did it go? What did it look like? WHY didn't you get me? They thought I was also looking at it the same time but didn't see me because I was walking around the house and went under the carport. Plus they were all looking up. My dad, a 20 year Army pilot then got a sheet of notebook paper folded it in half and drew what they witnessed.

It was silent, dark grey or flat black in color without insignia of any kind visible. No panels, windows, landing gear, protrusions or cockpit were visible. Four small red lights located on the underside that were constant in nature were seen.

The altitude was twice a telephone pole above the ground as it flew over telephone poles and the tree tops in our neighborhood at the time were lower than this. Size of the craft was in the 60-80 foot width and 45-55 foot length. Flat was the general profile description my family gave.

The drawing my dad did within a couple of minutes of the sighting was that of a trapezoid, not a true triangle, but an equilateral triangle with the apex missing at near the half-way point. No rounded edges or bulges. The small red lights were located near the corner points of the craft.

Altitude and speed remained constant during viewing. They viewed it for about 90 seconds to two minutes as it went from North to South across the backyards of Victoria drive (map availabel upon request) crossing Rucker Blvd and continuing on out of view. Estimated speed was between 5 and 25 MPH maybe closer to 10 MPH.

My dad held up his hand palm down and demonstrated a slow, smooth flight. He also indicated that he could have hit it with a baseball, hand thrown. Kind of amazing to me after all these evenings that I'm out back with good quality "big eyes" as I call them (binox) and my normal path into the house would have put me right into the den with the family, but noooo, I go slowly around the house under the carport while the first of my family members to see the craft calls the rest outside to witness the event and I miss the whole thing.

I have never before reported this event.

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It was like something out of star wars I was watching out the window for my husband to come home.Looking westward I saw a large white light sitting pretty low in the sky.The light was moving upward and it was getting closer.

I stepped out on my porch and watched as it went directly over my home.I could see it very well because it was a clear night.It was at least the size of a football field and grey mettalic with white and red recessed lights all around the edge.

The large white light was in the center,on the bottom,protruding out slightly,which has always made me think I saw it taking off from the wooded area that was in the direction it came from.It made no sound and seemed to be gliding slowly.I watched till it went out of sight.

I was a young mother,sober and not on drugs but no one believed me, not even my husband. I feel honored to have witnessed it. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.

PD)).

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Blue and Round Approx October of 1975, just near Ft.McClelan Army Base going north on hwy 21 then turned on why 431 north just past the bridge we saw a blue circle in the sky about the size of the moon appears, we where looking south about the blue mountain area, the object just hovered moving slightly in all directions, we then pulled over and got out to look as many others did also still on us hwy 431 right past Chinese resterant which may not have been there at the time. My grandmother said oh it's just a weather ballon but it wasn't this was bright and after about 15 mins in a instant it either shrink to nothing or went south till it was out of site.

After the Wellborn vs Saks game we got home and it was on 3340 news that several sightings of ufo was reported in this area. Now I'm of christian faith and don't believe in green Martians but all I know is I seen a unidentified flying object, could have been pocket of space gas or something from the heavens for all I know. A 2nd sighting acurred in same county in Coldwater, Al.

, Approx 1987 was traveling hwy 202 west almost at c & s service station I looked to the right and seen a round moon shaped white object in the sky I then thought to myself nice full moon tonight then it dawned on me the moon is on the opposite side after a last look at the object I lost it in the tree tops as I was driving never to see it again. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).

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Two brothers observe cigar-shaped UFO late at night after work. Two brothers were headed home from work and spotted a very large hovering craft above a field. They stopped and got out of the vehicle and observed said craft for at least 15 minutes.

The craft was emitted a low-pitched hum with a reverberating tone to it. There were no lights on the object. The object then began to emit a louder humming tone and began to tilt from a horizontal position to a vertical position.

Then the object lifted up and out of sight in a very rapid fashion. There was no wind, no heat, no radiation burns, no known magnetic effects, no effect on the vehicle or any other objects around the vicinity. The two brothers were excited but frightened by the experience.

They returned home and woke up everyone to inform them of what they had just experienced. They have subsequently re-told this story in identical fashion for years and have never had any other comparable experience. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information.

PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date is approximate. PD)).

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CLEAR DAYLIGHT SKY SILVER SAUCER WITH BLINKING LIGHTS OLD SPRINGVILLE RD 1975 IT WAS SUMMER AND STILL DAYLIGHT. WE HEARD TWO PEOPLE AT THE APARTMENT BELOW SCREAMING FOR ANYONE TO LOOK OUT THEIR WINDOW. I WENT TO A LARGE WINDOW AND SAW THE UFO FLY OVER OUR BUILDING.

YELLED AT MY HUSBAND AND WE WENT OUT AND STOOD IN THE PARKING LOT WITH 4 OTHER PEOPLE AND WATCHED IT HOVER. NONE OF US COULD BELIEVE WHAT WE WERE SEEING. TWO BOYS SAID THEY HAD BEEN FOLLOWING IT FROM CAMP COSBY (SPRINGVILLE, AL) DOWN OLD SPRINGVILLE LAKE ROAD (TOWARD HUFFMAN HIGH SCHOOL), WHEN IT LIFTED ITSELF, AND WENT BACK THE WAY IT HAD COME.

IT WAS SILVER, SAUCER SHAPED, WITH BLINKING LIGHTS AROUND THE MIDDLE. I WILL ALWAYS WONDER IF WE HAD THOUGHT TO GRAB A CAMERA, IF WE WOULD HAVE BEEN "BEAMED UP." MY HUSBAND AND I WILL BOTH TELL YOU, UFO’S EXIST.

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

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Light flying over the area in a scallopped pattern, I walked into the woods for a few minutes that turned out to be a couple of hours. One evening somewhere around April/March 1975, I was driving north on Rideout Road with a friend. There were other people pulled over to the side of the road looking at the sky.

We saw a light in the sky that looked like a low flying plane except the light was bigger than a plane's lights and it was flying in a scallopped pattern over an undeveloped wooded area on the east side of Rideout just north of Sherwood Park. I drove around to the east side of the area where Bradford Drive deadended, got out of the car, and walked down the footpath into the woods, while my friend stayed with the car. I remember seeing lights through the woods, standing there a few minutes, and then walking back to the car.

My friend said he was aware of crickets/bugs/birds being very loud, and then everything went quiet. He lost sight of me in the dark and waited a couple of hours before I came back. I thought it was minutes.

He said the crickets/birds started up again a few minutes before I came back. He questioned me about what had happened, and I told him all I remembered was the lights through the trees and a voice saying, "Are you afraid of your own mud?" We got back in the car and drove back to his house where we discovered that, even though the path and my shoes weren't particularly muddy, my jeans were covered with strange patterns of mud that looked like brush/finger strokes. I also discovered I had a rash on both of my upper arms.

((NUFORC Note: We spoke with this witness via telephone, and she sounded quite credible to us. She indicates that the date is approximate. PD)).