Alabama UFO Sightings in 1978

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Is there a 4 way stop sign in space for UFO. In Oct. 1978 at 23;30 To about00:30 hrs.

A bright oval light move across the sky at speeds that make it cross the sky in about ten sec. It was the brightest thing in the sky. WE all looked up an to our surprize to see it stop and not move for 2sec.

then take a 90 degree turn. Over the next hr. we saw 4 more do the same in the same spot as if it was a 4 way stop sign in the sky All made a 90 degree turn comeing from different area of the sky.

To this day I alway look up to the sky to the nnw at 10 o,clock high from Birmingham,Al.

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A large triangle shaped craft, close to the ground, with no sound, at all. This occurred in August, 1978, about sunset. I was 21 years old and recently completed a 3 year tour of service in the U.

S. Army. Two of my friends and I had completed a day’s work and decided to have a beer, ( one 6-pack, we were by no means intoxicated) We stopped on a back road outside Carbon Hill Alabama called “ Nubin Ridge “.

Which is the highest point around the small town. While we were talking, I was facing the direction this thing came from. Then I saw a light in the top of the trees.

We were higher than the trees because of the lay of the land. At first I thought it was a helicopter because the light lit up the tree tops and was coming towards us. I told the other guys to look.

Now this light was getting close (it was probably a quarter mile away when I first saw it ). It was not going fast at all, Maybe 25 or 30 MPH. ! Then the actual light comes in to view.

It’s very bright and low to the ground, 500 ft or less. It gets within 2 or 3 hundred feet of us when I made out the shape of this craft, a triangle, black, and very large, I would say at least as big as a football field or bigger. It goes right over us; the light actually lights up the road we’re standing on and never makes a sound.

Being in the military, I knew about aircraft, and this was nothing like anything I’ve ever seen, then or now. I never told anyone for fear of looking stupid, especially back then. I was brought up in a christen home so that sort of thing was taboo.

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3 ft. dia tan colored spherical object manuveing at 120+ knts. I was piloting a Piper Cherokee 140 airplane returning to the Gadsden Airport after some recreational flying approaching from the north about 5 miles out, when I passed the object at about 1000 Ft.

above ground level. It was about 20 ft. off of my left wing.

It was about 3 feet in diameter, tan in color, and looked like a weather balloon except that it had no inflation nozzle, no radiosonde attached to it, and it was perfectly round. Weather balloons have a teardrop shape to them when strapped to a weather gathering payload. I circled back to get a closer look and noticed what appeared to be a red crecent moon or a hammer and scycle shape on it reminiscent of the emblem on the former Soviet flag.

As I circled around a second time to get closer look, the object moved away from me and maintained a distance of about 50 to 75 yard spacing between itself and my plane. When I became aware that the object could manuver, I was certainly rattled. I tried to pursue the object about a minute or two but it accellerated away to the point that I could not keep up with it.

I was traveling at 120 knotts. Scared, I opted to return to the Gadsden Airport. When I arrived home, I reported the sighting to the Anniston Flight Service Station.

I believe the attendant at the FSS was unofficially impressed, but I don't know weather or not he officially filed my report. I believe the UFO to be either alien, a Top Secret USA probe, or the Russians aren't telling us something. I maintain that what I saw was not a weather balloon and flew under its own power.

I strongly believe the markings were used camoflage the UFO to be from Earth. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD)).

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In '78 Yellow Orb moved silently along with my car/50 mph, moved to the front of my car, then zoomed into the stars and became a star. I was in summer school at Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, around July of 1978. My girlfriend and future wife worked at the Tuskegee Holiday Inn, just off of I-85.

I was on my way to pick her up for work. Her shift at the front desk ended at 11:00PM. It was about 10:55pm, when I was about two miles from the hotel, on the same road that it sits.

As I was driving, in pitch black then, with no street lights, I picked up in my peripheral vision, a bright light to my left. When I turned to see where the light source was coming from, I saw a “Yellow Circular Orb. It was silent and matched my ground speed at around 50 mph.

It was at about the level that the height of a light post would be, but again, there were none then. I have been down that road since then and there are light post now. It moved silently alone with me for about 5 to 10 seconds, quickly moved to the front of my car, and in a flash, took a serpentine path towards the stars and seemed to because a star, as I watched it through my front windshield.

My girl and I were in the middle of being mad, for some reason, at each other. When that happened, I don’t say much to her. But when I picked her up that night, and got about to the spot where the encounter occurred I spoke.

As I started to speak, I could see the shock on her face, as she knew that I didn’t speak to her when we fussed, She was silent hearing my story out. ANd from that point on, she always said that she believed me, because it was well out of the norm for me to have spoken to her under the circumstances. I was prompted to report this encounter all these years later, because of the obvious doubt that surround people who have seen this vehicles.

There was also no where to report it then. I also have seen Yellow Orbs on more than one of the UFO shows, that look just like the vehicle that I witnessed that night. NOTE: Subsequent to this encounter, I got 10 hours flight training as a Cessna 152 student pilot and am a former flight attendant with two different airlines.

I’ve been in the air for many hours during work & playing, but I have yet to see the Yellow Orb that I saw that night on a dark road, in Tuskegee Alabama. Please feel free to contact me via e-mail.

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Silver Sphere Hovering above treeline on Interstate 65 N. Friday, July 1978 1:00 P.M.

My father and I were driving a U-Haul truck. We were returning an empty U-Haul truck to Tullahoma, TN. We were moving from Tullahoma TN to Athens AL.

We had just Accessed Interstate 65 N from AL State Hwy 72. We had just passed a roadside welcoming center on the left of the interstate going toward the Tennessee State line. About 1:00 p.

m., I looked up and above the tree line on the right side of the hwy was a huge silver ball. It was a hot sunny clear day not a cloud in the sky.

I said to my father, "Hey, look at that!" He said, "It looks like a weather balloon." I said, "No it is not!" We argued about it. We studied it for a little while and then stopped the truck.

We got out to look at it were we had a good view. As we were debating, If it were a weather balloon or not, a door slid open in a downward motion near the bottom of the object. We stood motionless watching! We stood there in silence.

A smaller silver ball came out of the opening and went to our right. Then as second came out and went to our left. They both hovered there for about five minutes.

The small silver ball that came out second returned to the opening first. Likewise the first went back in the opening. The door shut slowly.

It sat motionless for a few more minutes. Then began moving slowly toward the NE. Suddenly with incredible speed it went upward and to the NE out of view.

My father and I in silence got back into the truck. We said nothing to one another. My father spoke first.

He said, There is no sense in telling anyone what we have seen. No one would believe it anyway." We continued on our journey in silence.

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ONE HOT SUMMER CLEAR AFTERNNOON, I WAS ONLY ABOUT 12 YEARS OLD. A FRIEND & MYSELF WERE HAVING LUNCH ON THE DECK. ALL THE SUDDEN A VERY LOUD NOISE WAS OVER THE HOUSE.

MY FRIEND LOOKED UP IN THE SKY FIRST. HE WAS LIKE MAN LOOK.WHEN I LOOKED UP THERE WERE 2 OVAL OBJECTS SIDE BY SIDE PASSING OVER THE HOUSE AT A GOOD RATE OF SPEED IT SOUNDED LIKE A JET PLANE BUT LOOKED NOTHING LIKE ONE IT WAS A SILVER METALLIC COLOR I RAN INSIDE TO GET A CAMERA BUT WHEN I RETURNED IT WAS GONE.

2 OVAL OBJECTS SIDE BY SIDE METALLIC COLOR SOUNDEDLIKE A JET PLANE THE SKY WAS CLEAR WE LIVED ON THE LAKE.