Alabama UFO Sightings in 1980

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The date and time is not exact. I was the shift supervisor at a chemical plant located on the banks of the Tennessee River. Mountains surrounded the horizon.

There was a barge facility approximately a mile from the main plant that was unmanned. Every two hours some one from the maintenance department had to go to the barge area for a fire watch and sign a log. On this particular night, I decided to ride in the van with the two maintenance men to the barge dock.

The road was straight as an arrow and not paved. When we were about halfway back to the main complex, the maintenance man driving stopped the van. I got out of the van from the passenger side and the other maintenance man sat in the van listening to the radio.

As we talked, the other person suddenly said "what in the hell is that"? As I turned to see what he was talking about I saw nothing but stars and the outline of a mountain across the river. It was a clear night but the moon was not visible. Initially I saw some flashing stars on the horizon changing colors as they do when they are first visible.

I said "What"? "All I see are stars". He said "no"! "To the right" and pointed. As I looked further to my right, I saw the large shadow coming straight toward us.

It was so large I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It had no lights and was shaped like a perfect triangle. It passed directly over our heads and disapeared over the horizon of a different mountain.

It had a flourescent appearance and shown a greyish black surface. It made no nise except for a gliding sound coasting it seemed through the air. The other maintenace man in the van jumped out at hearing our talking about the object and saw it briefly b! efore it disappeared over the horizon.

I felt weird and had chills over my entire body. We were freaked out and decided we would tell no one because it would make us seem crazy. As we started to get back into the van, we heard a noise and it was two military jets following the same path as the triangle.

As they passed over head they broke the sound barrier and the "boom" echoed across the valley. It then dawned on both of us that the triangle and the jets had come from the direction of the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Al, about 30 miles away. I had read about flying saucers and UFO's but at the time of my sighting, I had never heard of a flying triange.

This thing had to have been over a mile wide. Who would believe that? Now that others are beginning to report the same, I decided to report what I saw that early morning. ((NUFORC Note: Source of report indicates that the time of the sighting is approximate.

PD)).

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Ball of Fire that changed into a cone shape. I have two friends who were traveling south on U.S.

Highway 431 in north Alabama.It was dark there were severeal cars whos occupants would have to have had seen it also. My friends discribed a "Orange ball of fire" that was hovering over a small country store adjacent to the highway.

As my friends got closer, the "Ball of fire" changed into a cone shape. The craft had something on the outside that started to revolve,on the thrid revolution, the craft made an initial dart and then left at an incredible speed.

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I was a college student @the TIME drivinG from AUM ON BELL RD. TOWARD TROY HWY. TURNING RIGHT, RURAL AREA THEN.

AS I WAS TURNING LEFT ONTO VIRGINIA LOOP RD. I SAW A SAUCER, FLYING LOW WITH LIGHTS OVER THE PASTURE LAND HEADED SOUTH, WITNESSED IT CLOSELY FROM THE REDLIGHT SIGNAL. IT FLEW OFF INTO THE SKY WITHIN TWO TO THREE SECONDS, DISAPPEARED.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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three lights that formed a triangle in the night sky In the eary summer of 1980, I was taking my private pilot ground school on the weekend. On a Friday night a buddy and I were sitting on the front steps of another friends house, waiting on him to get home from eating out with his parents. As we sat there talking I noticed a humming sound that sounded different from any airplane that I have ever herd before.

I looked up toward the sky (southeast) towards Birmingham and notice three lights in the sky above that formed a perfect triangle. The two on the right were smaller in size and would have formed the base of the triangle. The one on the left was larger and would have been the apex of the triangle.

The apex light was white and the two smaller lights were white with a red tint. Since I was taking my private pilot ground school, we had learned that red was on the left, green on the right, and white on the tail. I was trying to make sence of the lights but it just wasn't right.

The lights were moving towards us from the southeast heading northwest. If the lights were on a plane, the plane would have been flying sideways. I then got my buddies attention and pointed the lights out to him.

As we watched the lights slowly move across the sky, I was telling him if,that is a plane, it is very low and we would hear it, and that the direction of flight would be different than the lights. The house that we were at is up on a hill and from our position you can see the lights of Birmingham in the distance some 12-15 miles away. To the southwest of us about 1 mile a baseball game was underway at parkwest and you could hear the pa being annouced at the game.

I notice a plane had just departed from BHM and was climbing out towards the north in a slow arc. The plane was very identifible as an F-4 phantom recon aircraft that was based at BHM. This was identified by the two bottom stobes that we saw all the time in our area.

As the F4 got closer to the objects above us, the objects slowed and came to a complete stop. To get an idea of the spacing of the objects overhead, they were about the width of an adults outstrected hands in the sky (2'from the apex to the base.) The two objects that formed the base were about 1' apart from each other.

As the F4 got closer, the two objects that formed the base began to separate from each other, widening the base to what appeared two be 3-4' in the sky. They slowly started to move to the southwest which is a 90 degree turn from the original direction. As the moved the gatherd speed and instantly streaked across the sky leaving a white line that dissapeard as fast as it appeared.

As soon as they were gone, the largest (apex) light slowly started in the same direction (toward the ball park) as did the other two. It too started to build speed and in a blink of an eye streaked across the sky and left an identicle steak of light behind it and was gone. It would remind one of a shooting star.

From out position on top of this hill, you could see 15 miles. So we were able to follow these light all the way across the horizon. The F4 continued its approach and made a large circle back towards Birmingham.

My friend and I just looked at each other in disbelief and asked each other "did you see that". We told out friend what we saw and his parents. They just looked at us as if we were crazy.

The next morning I went to my private pilot ground school at the birmingham airport and asked my instructor, who was a F4 pilot at the time if they scrambled any F4's last night to check out what we had seen and he said he didn't know. This has been on my mind ever since and I felt the need to write it down. If anyone else has had a similar experience I would like to read about it.

Thanks ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. Witness describes self as a member of the medical community. PD)).

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It looked like the comic book flying sausers when i was young._ silver, had lights, i was 100 ft away daylight. My friend an i was leaving Montgomery, Al, going back to Prattville, Al, witch neighboring city to Montgomery, there is a river between the two citys, as we got onto the bridge I was in passenger seat looking out I saw flying sauser, it was as wide as the river, it was just hovering above the river , it looked the bottom ot it was in the water and water was shooting out the edges , car went i dont know about 30 more feet the craft then rose up about 80 to 100 feet then flue off looked like 1/8 mile twards Montgomery , stopped , sat still like it was dialing in directions then headed north , in about 15 seconds it was completely out of cite ,no sound no vapor trail .

I didnt tell my friend until it was gone i was in shock and ah, i was so freaked out every hair on my head and arms was standing stright up. he did see that, lots people phoned in they saw it als including my friends wife, weard thing that night had a dream about owel [bird] scaey other people saw it had same dream . I'll take all lie detecting machines test you want to give me.

Got to be record of that date some where it was on the news._. I was 100 ft away from it.