Alabama UFO Sightings in 1988

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Long oblong, hovering over ground, bright headlight on each end very close. Riding in dark countryside, nothing for miles. Under the cover of tall grass and fields.

We had to surprise them when my Volkswagen popped up around the corner. It looked as if they were just chilling out in a dark field, hovering over the ground. Long oblong too dark to tell color.

A giant, bright shining headlight on each end. Not shining in our direction, but so bright, it lit everyone's face up in the car. I didn't stop and look, I just kept rolling at a very slow speed, all of our mouths hanging open.

Our vision was blocked for just one second when I rolled past a tiny dilapidated shack. I sped past to be able to see on the other side and it was completely gone. It had vanished in no more than 1 second.

We were back in the dark and my passengers started yelling "let's get out of here!!" We all knew exactly what we had witnessed without having to say a word. I wish I had stopped the car instead of rolling by that shack.

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Bell or thimble shaped object rises out of Guntersville Lake and follows pair into Huntsville. Late one evening (between 9 and 10 PM) in the winter of 1988 (possibly February), I (a high school student) was sitting on a boat dock at Guntersville Lake with one other person (a high school student) when a large bell or thimble shaped object rose from the water about a quarter of a mile from us. It rose straight up (higher than the tree line) and stopped.

Too close for comfort, we got into our car and drove rapidly from the lake taking Hwy 72 through Scottsboro to Huntsville (a trip lasting approximately 35 minutes). The object followed us just above the tree line rapidly moving from one side of the road to the other. The object was bright enough to be seen through the street lights once we reached Huntsville and followed us on a twisting path through town.

We stopped at my house near Redstone Arsenal and gathered up a pair of binoculars and a rifle scope to look more closely at the object that was now hovering over the neighbor’s house. We were joined by my father (a restaurant manager) and a neighbor (profession unknown), and we all watched the object for approximately ten minutes. It was bell or thimble shaped with varying colored lights around the outside of the object in a diagonal line from the bottom to the top.

It rotated counter clockwise and was light in color. After ten minutes or so, the object rose rapidly and sped off to the southeast. I saw several strange luminous objects in the skies over Redstone Arsenal in the spring and summer that followed- often the same objects in the same general area several nights in a row--but none came close enough for me to distinguish their shapes.

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

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Huge craft hovering over a residential area. I am not exactly sure of the date, but I remember the year and time exactly. I was sixteen years old and this single event is the reason I am a MUFON supporter and interested in the UFO phenomenon.

I have never seen anything since that one experience. I watched a huge craft hover over an area near my home. I could see it well and it was very slow, fading out of view behind a house.

I cannot emphasize enough how large it was. It was oval-shaped and had many, many light on it. The next afernoon at work, I told some people who thought I was crazy, at least until it was reported on our local news that many people saw this craft.

Years later, in 1998, I was watching a UFO documentary on television and saw a picture of the exact craft I saw. You don't forget things like that. Anyway, the picture was taken in 1988 (same year I saw it) in Florida.

I would just love to know what it was. Thank you. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the alleged sighting is approximate.

PD)).