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Alabama UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 130 UFO sighting reports in Alabama from 2014 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (33 reports, 25.38% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (21 reports, 16.15% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (34 reports, 26.15% of total).
- 07/04/14 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (6 reports, 4.62% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (77 reports, 59.23% of total).
Alabama UFO Sighting Reports in 2014
This is a sampling of 20 Alabama UFO reports from 2014, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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8 stationary objects with red lights hovering in a semi-circle shape for approx 5 mins in Chelsea, AL I walked outside in my back yard around 8:45 pm CST and noticed 8 stationary objects in the NE sky. They each had 3 red lights and appeared to have a triangle shape. The objects hovered in a semi-circle formation for approx 3-5 mins and then disappeared.
There wasn't any type of noticable sound like you would hear with a normal airplane. This was definitely not anything I've ever seen before!.
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many shooting stars before a strange object appeared. My little brother and I were outside, able to bear witness to upwards of twenty shooting stars near the big dipper while I was facing east. The shooting stars prevailed a shape that my brother and I couldn't quite make out, but was similar to a large ball of Orange light with two dull greyish blue lights in the center located far to the left of the big dipper.
After fifteen minutes of erratic movement, the Orange light surrounding two dull lights sped towards the western part of the night sky before disappearing on the horizon. There is an uneasy feeling in the area after object departed.
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UFOs moving fast like fireballs or individual rockets. We were leaving Centerpoint, Alabama. When we got past the airport, we sighted 6 of what looked to be white dots from our car.
Then, as we got closer to downtown, we got a better view. The objects look like fire balls, or meteors, flying through the sky. I recorded one of them moving toward Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
All the others moving fast and out of sight fast, moving in no specific sequence, but at one point, in a T-formation, then a V-formation, then breaking off in a scatter, but a close scatter.
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4 white floating streaks of light, that moved in no particular order in Hoover area So, we were driving on interstate 65, getting off by the Galleria, on the fly over and me, (the passenger) notice 4 white streaks of light that seemed to be floating and i called my friend who was in the car in front of us and asked if she saw them, and at that time, there were now only 3 lights and we all saw the same streaks of white light that seemed to be moving but in no particular fashion and then one disappeared and the 3 remaining began to scatter and they were moving toward the bessemer/tuscaloosa area. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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While driving, I looked out the window, and there was an object, and it looked odd. Then I took a picture of the unusual object. My friend also is an observer of this picture.
((NUFORC Note: We have requested a more detailed description of the sighting. PD)).
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Lights in circular motion going in to one another. Stood in same spot for along time before moving about 60 ft. When they left, they left rapidly and blinked out.
Been coming for little over a week now. Along Highway 77. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect that the lights may have been advertising lights, but we cannot confirm our suspicion by contacting the witness, since he provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Bright multi colored image in the eastern part of sky moving erratically with flashing lights. Then after about an hour one image turned west moving very quickly no sound & large with flashing light - it was definately not a plane - moving too fast.
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My daughter and I were sitting at the traffic light at Cox Creek Pkwy and Florence Blvd. facing S.W.
? A large white light streaked across the sky in front of us, low to the horizon as if it came from behind us. It was like a dash space dash space dash. Then it was gone.
We have never seen anything like it. It moved extremely fast like a shooting star, but was not steadily lit like one. It reminded us of a missle being shot from a fighter jet.
The strange part was how it disappeared at exact intervals almost like a sewing machine stitch.
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Large shape changing fiery object. We were driving on the road when we saw a large rectangle above the trees. It then changed to a sphere and then a cube later.
It was on fire. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Came about 6:00 pm saw to my north a some clouds but somethig was going round and round and then it went a bit further out .it seamed like if the light was comeing from top of the clouds.but it was prety big.
me my son and husband were looking at this for about 15 min then disapered and then all the dogs in this little nighborhood started barking and mouging :( ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD)).
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Very large low flying aircraft covered ten or more bright, non-blinking white lights. It was about 10:30 on a cold clear night. Me and my cousin we returning home from a vaction and only ten minutes away from home witnessed a large strange object traveling above across the interstate.
I noticed it first when and it appeared to be the shape of a triangle. Then as we moved along it appeared more cross like. Really tried to focus on the object and wish I would have just stoped because we wanted to identify the object.
It was not our luck as well because it was flying so low that after I first noticed it, trees in the intersection we also obscuring our view. It was a very strange flying object like none I've seen before. As stated before it seemed difficult to actually determine the shape.
The size of the shape was enormous for such a low flying object and was covered with about ten or more white balls of light. I have never seen as many lights on a plane before so at first I thought it might be some sort of miltary plane that I have never witnessed before, but I do not understand why they would want to be so lit up. We could see the enormous object through the tops of the trees but it never rize above for a clear enough view.
None of the lights seemed to blink like any other normal plane and almost seemed extra bright white and glowing light. The object also seemed to be moving extremely slow for such a large low flying aircraft. After the object left sight we continued to search the sky and also stoped off the side of our exit to search the sky again outside of the vehicle.
No sight of the once large, lit up object but we had traveled a few miles to arive at out exit. We did however notice unusual amount of plane activity where at first there seemed to be four planes flying close together then separate and seemed to just kind of circle the area. They were very noticeably different from the other flying object but did not seem to be commercial airliners.
I by no means am a aircraft specialist, but h! ave never seen a large, low flying aircraft with so many light! s. May be a case of mis-identification but I know there were plenty of other cars and people in the area. I've never reported an incident and only did trying to find anyone who saw the same other object that may have had a different angle and maybe help explain the craft, or possible verify our strange sighting.
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I noticed 4-5 orb-like anomalies moving in formation across the evening sky. I approach everything with skepticism. I'll be the first to call most "sightings" a big pile of bologna.
But this report, is entirely accurate. This report, I saw with my own eyes. Let me get started by explaining the "sighting" in its entirety.
It was just before sunset, I was facing east looking toward a tree line. Out of my peripheral vision I noticed 4-5 orange glowing "orbs" in the cloud line. They seemed to be moving in some type of formation, appearing and reappearing at will.
They "danced" around in what I would describe as a figure eight like motion for the majority of the time I was able to see them. One of the "orbs" shot across the entire sky until no longer visible, followed by the remaining anomalies at an alarming rate of speed. They were there, and then they were just gone.
No sound, no reflection , no nothing, just gone. Ok, so no big deal right? Unless I were to take you back to my childhood, in which I saw the exact same type of anomaly, but not yet old enough to understand the difference. I would not have even thought to much about it, had it not been for a Youtube.
com video I recently viewed, depicting the exact same experience I have mentioned here.
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friend says wow 2 shooting stars, i did not see but i know it wasn't stars friend seen 2 glowing objects fly through the sky he exclaimed it was shooting stars but i think otherwise. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Two objects flew across the sky from south to north close together they were jade in color my wife saw them while driving ahead of me in the other car. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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At around 18:00 or 18:30 hours on November 6, 2014, my friend and I witnessed a disc like oval craft traveling southeast over Phenix City, Al, and Columbus, GA. It traveled directly overhead. Its movement was similar to a hockey puck on an air hockey table.
No sound and when it was directly overhead it seemed cloaked to mimic the clouds. Moon light kept its shape visible. The altitude was similar to plane height at air show planes.
Craft was visible for approximately 30 seconds.
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I could not explain it, and wondering if anyone else saw it. At about 11pm, I noticed a strange light in the sky to the southwest; a larger white light, a smaller green light and a smaller red light all together. Having been a pilot for 30 years and a flight instructor for almost 20, I supposed it was an airplane.
However, this light did not move. Had it been a hovering helicopter, I would have heard it, but it made no sound. After about 20 minutes, it began moving in a circle, then bobbing up and down.
I compared it to stationary ground objects, steadying myself against a road sign to make sure that it was moving and not myself. Since I do not believe in UFOs, I went inside after about a half hour. Curiosity got the best of me an hour later, and I went back outside to check on it, and saw that it had moved almost directly overhead.
Still no sound. ((NUFORC Note: Witness corrects the date to Sunday, November 02, 2014. We have corrected it above.
Witness believes firmly that the object was not a star. PD)).
Full Report Text:
4 bright oval flashes 4 large oval light flashes from the the clouds. Appeared to be exact spot. No thunderstorms reported in the area nor did it appear to be lightning in anyway.
Flashes were sporadically timed. Event occurred over interstate 20 so possibly many witnesses. Power outages reported at time of flashes.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Please listen, I see an average of 5 to 20 moving star like objects every night for a year, different types!! I see slow moving, star like objects every night for over a year now. Some are slower, higher elevation and seem to zig zag. Some pulsate on and off completely and fade out after a minute or so.
A few flying a little faster and lower have responded to flashlight by brightening up extremely bright after I've flashed them with light. They dim back down and continue on path. One responded 3 times in a row to flashlight.
Last night 10-22-2014, there were three together flying in a Triangle formation, each taking turns getting bright.
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Four bright stars form smiley face then quickly move away and disappear. UFO Sighting report – 10-22-2014, 5:30 AM in Andalusia Alabama. I got up early this morning and was standing outside enjoying the clear night sky.
It was about 5:30 to 5:45. I was facing to the WNW and looking up at about 75 to 80 degrees. (almost straight up).
I noticed that Orion was very prominent and that almost straight North or maybe NNW of Orion, I noticed what looked like a big smiley face in the sky with four stars in it. It made me smile. I thought to myself that it looked really cool and pondered why I had not noticed it before.
I watched for maybe 15 to 20 seconds and then two of the stars (lights?) moved in exact opposite directions the one on the left went straight towards Orion and the second from the right headed what I’ll say is Northerly. It seemed to be the exact opposite direction from the far left star. I watched them moved for almost a minute.
The one on the right seemed to stop moving, the one on the left kept going and it seemed like maybe (since it was well far away by now and very dim) it had some sort of a tail. The star on the right remained in the same position. I was watching it steadily.
Especially since the left one had moved and disappeared, I wanted to see what it would do. After about 30 Seconds I noticed that it too was moving. Only it was or seemed to be moving straight away and getting smaller and dimmer.
It disappeared quickly. (10 Seconds?). Holy Cow! The only star left in the smiley face was the second from the left.
It was also the brightest of the four original lights. It seemed to be staying stationary. I started wondering if there were other lights in the night sky moving around so I started to check out the rest of the sky.
When I started watching the smiley face, there was a very very dim glow in the east from the sunrise. So dim that if I was a rooster I would have waited a few more minutes to crow. The sky was clear and all of the stars toward the west were still very bright.
I looked all over the rest of the visible night sky and nothing caught my attention, so I looked back at the smiley face fourth star. And it was completely GONE. That’s it that’s all I know.
IT would be nice to know what this was and if anyone else saw this.
Full Report Text:
Flaming object I saw a bright blue and red flaming object in the sky over Huntsville , Al. It was going from East to West at about 2,000 feet and rapidly descending. It made no sound and left no trail I could see.
I estimate speed at about 1500 to 2000 mph.
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2014 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 33 reported sightings | 25.38% of all reports |
Formation | 15 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
Unknown | 11 reported sightings | 8.46% of all reports |
Circle | 10 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Fireball | 10 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Sphere | 9 reported sightings | 6.92% of all reports |
Triangle | 6 reported sightings | 4.62% of all reports |
Other | 6 reported sightings | 4.62% of all reports |
Cigar | 4 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
Flash | 4 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
Cross | 3 reported sightings | 2.31% of all reports |
Disk | 3 reported sightings | 2.31% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Egg | 2 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 0.77% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 0.77% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 0.77% of all reports |
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2014 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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May | 21 reported sightings | 16.15% of all reports |
July | 18 reported sightings | 13.85% of all reports |
April | 14 reported sightings | 10.77% of all reports |
January | 11 reported sightings | 8.46% of all reports |
September | 11 reported sightings | 8.46% of all reports |
November | 10 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
February | 10 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
June | 9 reported sightings | 6.92% of all reports |
October | 8 reported sightings | 6.15% of all reports |
March | 7 reported sightings | 5.38% of all reports |
December | 6 reported sightings | 4.62% of all reports |
August | 5 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2014 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Thursday | 34 reported sightings | 26.15% of all reports |
Wednesday | 23 reported sightings | 17.69% of all reports |
Friday | 22 reported sightings | 16.92% of all reports |
Saturday | 18 reported sightings | 13.85% of all reports |
Monday | 12 reported sightings | 9.23% of all reports |
Tuesday | 11 reported sightings | 8.46% of all reports |
Sunday | 10 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2014 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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07/04/14 | 6 reported sightings | 4.62% of all reports |
05/01/14 | 5 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
07/16/14 | 4 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
09/17/14 | 3 reported sightings | 2.31% of all reports |
04/25/14 | 3 reported sightings | 2.31% of all reports |
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2014 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 77 reported sightings | 59.23% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 28 reported sightings | 21.54% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 12 reported sightings | 9.23% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 6 reported sightings | 4.62% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 4 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 3 reported sightings | 2.31% of all reports |
All Alabama Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2014
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Alabama, in 2014
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Alabama
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Alabama.