Last updated on May 1, 2024

Alabama UFO Sightings in 2015

This page aggregates and analyzes all UFO sighting reports made in Alabama during 2015.

How many Alabama UFO sightings were there in 2015?

  • There were 65 officially reported UFO sightings in Alabama in 2015.
  • In 2015, Alabama ranked #33 on the list of states with the most UFO sightings for that year.
  • Adjusted for population size, Alabama ranks #46 in the list of states with the most reported UFO sightings in 2015, with an average of 1.36 reports per 100,000 residents.

Alabama Cities with the most UFO Sightings in 2015

Rank City Number of Reports
1 Florence, AL 5 UFO Reports
2 Mobile, AL 4 UFO Reports
3 Dothan, AL 3 UFO Reports
4 Tuscumbia, AL 3 UFO Reports
5 Birmingham, AL 2 UFO Reports

Alabama UFO Sightings Analysis

We analyzed all 65 UFO sighting reports in Alabama from 2015 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:

Alabama UFO Sighting Reports in 2015

This is a sampling of 20 Alabama UFO reports from 2015, 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).

Gadsden, AL

Full Report Text:

two fireballs traveling same path a minute or 2 apart About 20:00 hours, a friend and I went outside to smoke. We were talking, when we noticed something big and orange in the sky. We went out to the street to get a better look.

It traveled from north-northwest to southwest. Then about a minute later another one did the same, and traveled the exact same path. There was no sound or no tail like a comet or shooting star.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

12/31/15 8:00 PM

UFO Shape: fireball

Lasted: 5 minutes

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Harpersville, AL

Full Report Text:

6 oval white lights in the sky. Followed us darted back and forth.

12/30/15 8:00 PM

UFO Shape: oval

Lasted: 5 minutes

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Cullman, AL

Full Report Text:

Four lights going in a circle and rotating in the sky. There are 4 circle-shaped lights in the sky, which keep circling and rotating. They a kind of blue in color.

First, they bunch up together, and then they separate from each other. Afterwards they rotate and then bunch up again not quite sure what it is, other than lights moving in a continuous circle as described above. ((NUFORC Note: Advertising lights? PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

PD)).

12/29/15 6:17 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: idk

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Dothan, AL

Full Report Text:

Seemed close perhaps over florida por the ocean near there/would appreciate a picture that someone else saw, i live in daleville,al looking in the general direction of florida i saw a bright star shooting to the ground perhaps over the ocean.

12/14/15 9:15 PM

UFO Shape: fireball

Lasted: 40 seconds

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Athens, AL

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Diamond shaped craft points up and down multiple colored lights Red being most outstanding and brightest others where clear to yellow in color around outside of middle of diamond shape hovered right over tree tops in distance of approximately 10 miles completely stationary for approximately 4 min. Then with extreme acceleration vanished start away from my location. No sound.

((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no contact information. PD)).

12/08/15 9:00 PM

UFO Shape: diamond

Lasted: 3 minutes

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Vance, AL

Full Report Text:

Single light disapearing and re apearing in a direct line path then shot out to the side faintly. One light came and disappeared about three times in a line directional pattern, then came back on really faint, and shot out at a 90 degree angle till it disappeared. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

PD)).

12/08/15 6:20 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 2 minutes

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Mobile, AL

Full Report Text:

Bright orange light hovering. Walking to the store me and my sister n law saw a bright orange light blinking out and in. it was unexplainable.

Aliens are real. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We are unable to confirm whether the sighting was in the morning, or whether it was during the evening.

We have amended the time above, to reflect a nighttime sighting. PD)).

12/04/15 5:00 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted:

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Dothan, AL

Full Report Text:

I see this craft a few times a week while outside smoking. Triangle shaped, low flying and no noise at all.

11/28/15 8:00 PM

UFO Shape: triangle

Lasted: 3 minutes

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Hollywood, AL

Full Report Text:

Very bright star or light, it was stationary, it would go out and then reappear. Bright light low elevation stationary, would completely disappear and reappear, L shape in light, thought it was a star at first. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information.

PD)).

11/23/15 3:00 AM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 10 minutes

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Red Hill, AL

Full Report Text:

Saw large orb in nights sky.started to watch and could see it moving in a triangle formation. with each position lighting up different colors.

have pics and video. two phones ((NUFORC Note: Twinkling star, or planets in eastern sky? PD)).

11/22/15 3:00 AM

UFO Shape: formation

Lasted: 3 hours

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Eastaboba, AL

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we seen big black triangle craft.

11/17/15 6:00 PM

UFO Shape:

Lasted: 1 minute

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Fort Payne, AL

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red light seen moving slowly left,right and rapidly vertically up and down. On 11/16/15 about 7:30 pm myself, my sister-in-law & her daughter were walking her dogs. It was dark, light overcast and very windy.

When reaching the intersection of Hamilton Drive and Crystal Lake Drive we spotted a large, bright red light against the mountain. My first thought was it was a car's tail lights visible on a mountain road, but then realized there were no mountain roads in that area. The light moved up the mountain side seemingly following the slope and then back down to approximately its original elevation and began blinking a small green light from the lower side of the red light.

It began to move left, right, back left and then rapidly ascended to an altitude approximately the height of the mountain, estimate 500 feet in about 5 seconds. Then it rapidly descended back to its original altitude. The light slowly descended from that point behind a tree line as if landing and was not seen again.

No craft shape could be seen as the red light dominated. The event lasted approximately 20 minutes.

11/16/15 7:30 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 20 minutes

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Vandiver, AL

Full Report Text:

I observed one very bright round shaped orb that seemed to hover over the treeline. It was fairly low in the sky and after hovering for about 15 minutes then flashed very bright for a fraction of a second, then disappeared.

11/12/15 8:00 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 15 minutes

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Hamilton, AL

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Going up a steep hill, I saw a green light that divided, just as it went out of sight.

11/11/15 6:00 PM

UFO Shape: circle

Lasted: 4 seconds

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Florence, AL

Full Report Text:

Too big, too fast; may land and crashed, or continued passing. Big Oval shape, more like Big, Big Meteor, surrounded on back by a crown of Blue light and red sparks passing by at Very high Hyper speed toward NE Too quick appear like fallen, may meteor fall or just pass, not know If continue flying or crash difficult to say. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

PD)).

11/11/15 5:39 PM

UFO Shape: unknown

Lasted: 10

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Rogersville, AL

Full Report Text:

White ball light about the size of basket ball saw just before it went below the tree line. My location was 5 miles east of Rogersville, al. While walking my dog.

Didn't hear anything. Just happen to look up.

11/11/15 5:20 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 20 seconds

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Centre, AL

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Watched for 4 minutes from 68 bypass to the old Big-E parking lot. ((NUFORC Note: No information provided by source of report. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

PD)).

11/11/15 5:00 PM

UFO Shape: fireball

Lasted: 4 minutes

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Florence, AL

Full Report Text:

Blue circle stopped approximately two minutes and moved rapidly. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

11/11/15 3:00 PM

UFO Shape: sphere

Lasted: 3 minutes

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Florence, AL

Full Report Text:

Bright multi-color flashing orb saw in the sky making slow and fast maneuvers from left-right horizontal too vertical maneuvers easily. The first sighting was approximately two months prior to the sighting I am posting about now from this last Wednesday (11-4-15) at exactly 2:50 a.m.

I am a Private Investigator my late twenties and work crazy long hours so needless to say I was asleep on the couch when my Fiancée woke me up in a frightened state saying that she just observed something unexplainable in the sky upon walking outside to have a smoke. I immediately walked outside and much to my surprise there it was. Distance, size and altitude were obviously impossible to determine due to it being far up in the sky.

However, I can say with certainty that it was large and was at a far distance from my position in the field behind my residence. This object was absolutely silent and the only observable features about it was that it was a bright glowing white orb (I refer to it as an Orb because it appeared this way from the constant bright light. I don’t know if it was a craft or what) with what a! ppeared to be flashing lights of blue red green and yellow (however this was just observation by the naked eye and could have been a larger or a smaller spectrum of colors).

It is hard to say if the changing “flash’s” of different colors was from a spinning movement around the center of it was flashing from the center like a strobe. I want to point out that while this specific experience I am speaking about is from me and my Fiancée’s first experience from two months prior, both experience’s had the exact same type movements that I am about to describe. The main difference is that the first sighting was at approximately 2:50 a.

m. and the most recent sighting was at 10:15 p.m.

and BOTH SIGHTINGS HAPPENED IN THE SAME LOCATION IN THE SKY. It helped me out that I had the same two tall trees in my field to use as landmarks while looking up in the sky and allowed us to be able to tell that the objects maneuvers were actually being done and that it was just a trick to our eyes. The object’s maneuvers are what really took us by surprise in th! at it changed in speed at random while going from a hovering position to suddenly darting to the left or right.

Also it made circular flying motions as well as moving from a stationary hover to the left then suddenly making nearly a 90° turn and going vertical. All of these types of maneuvers were observed many times and at multiple patterns (Such as darting to the right then shooting straight up all while never changing speed, or while flying in one direction suddenly maneuvering into making an almost perfect circle in the sky) I do not feel that this was a standard aircraft of any kind as it showed no lighting like any citizen passenger or military aircraft I have ever observed. It also did not appear to be moving farther away from our position or so much closer either as its size should have decreased or increased as it flew away or flew closer to us.

All of the patterns and sudden changes in speed were observed in a relatively local area in the sky for a very long period of time. At the end of the sighting on the first night, we observed the orb as it ended up flying down out of the local area where it had seemed to hang around and appeared at this point to start flying away from us towards the horizon. However while it was still easily observable in the atmosphere, it seemed to us as if it almost blinked out of existence.

The most recent sighting we never witnessed when or how it departed due to both of us having to call it a night and go to bed due to having to be up early for work the next morning. While observing this anomaly on both nights, I first grabbed the first thing with a camera which was my Galaxy S5 with a 16 mp high definition camera in it. While I know that this isn’t super great camera wise, I thought just maybe since this orb is illuminated so well it would pick it up.

However, I was wrong. So I can to one of my gear bags I have for my job and just grabbed the first handheld camcorder I could find and it was my Samsung camcorder ! which isn’t anything fancy just a 32x zoom but usually has don! e me alr ight even in most low light scenarios. And again seeing how illuminated this object was I thought surely it would pick it up at least somewhat.

But no. I am just hoping that someone else could have observed this event near me. I do want to put out that being the I live in the very northwest part of AL, this object easily in my opinion was hovering and doing these crazy maneuvers over the state of TN or MS.

I know MS has an Air Force Base however the only one that comes to mind right off is a bit south of where this orb would have been flying over. So anyone who can help me out here explaining this please don’t hesitate to contact me.

11/04/15 10:15 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: >30 minutes

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Wicksburg, AL

Full Report Text:

We where on the interstate when I look up at the sky to see it so clear blue with clouds in the distance when I saw a bright light that resembled a planet. I then point it out to my husband and ask could that be a plane, but it's so bright to which my husband who is a pilot responded that's not a plane it's too low down and it's not a helicopter it's too high up. As he keeps glancing at it, the light begins to fade out slowly and then before we know it vanishes.

Very odd it happen so quickly I didn't think to take pictures and it was gone before we knew it. It looked just like a planet it was a bright white light no haze or tail or trail left behind, but a circle of light thay faded to nothing. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

PD)).

11/02/15 4:00 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: >2 minutes

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Alabama UFO Sightings From 2015 By Shape

This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.

Shape / Appearance Sightings % Of Total
Light 33 reported sightings 50.77% of all reports
Fireball 9 reported sightings 13.85% of all reports
Triangle 5 reported sightings 7.69% of all reports
Unknown 4 reported sightings 6.15% of all reports
Oval 2 reported sightings 3.08% of all reports
Sphere 2 reported sightings 3.08% of all reports
Other 2 reported sightings 3.08% of all reports
Circle 2 reported sightings 3.08% of all reports
Chevron 1 reported sightings 1.54% of all reports
Disk 1 reported sightings 1.54% of all reports
Changing 1 reported sightings 1.54% of all reports
Diamond 1 reported sightings 1.54% of all reports
Formation 1 reported sightings 1.54% of all reports

Alabama UFO Sightings From 2015 By Month

This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.

Month Sightings % Of Total
November 13 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
September 10 reported sightings 15.38% of all reports
January 9 reported sightings 13.85% of all reports
October 7 reported sightings 10.77% of all reports
December 7 reported sightings 10.77% of all reports
July 5 reported sightings 7.69% of all reports
June 5 reported sightings 7.69% of all reports
August 4 reported sightings 6.15% of all reports
April 2 reported sightings 3.08% of all reports
May 2 reported sightings 3.08% of all reports
February 1 reported sightings 1.54% of all reports

Alabama UFO Sightings From 2015 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
Wednesday 13 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
Saturday 12 reported sightings 18.46% of all reports
Monday 12 reported sightings 18.46% of all reports
Tuesday 9 reported sightings 13.85% of all reports
Sunday 7 reported sightings 10.77% of all reports
Thursday 6 reported sightings 9.23% of all reports
Friday 6 reported sightings 9.23% of all reports

Alabama UFO Sightings From 2015 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
11/11/15 5 reported sightings 7.69% of all reports
09/15/15 3 reported sightings 4.62% of all reports
01/17/15 3 reported sightings 4.62% of all reports
01/18/15 2 reported sightings 3.08% of all reports
10/10/15 2 reported sightings 3.08% of all reports

Alabama UFO Sightings From 2015 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
Night 20:00 - 23:59 29 reported sightings 44.62% of all reports
Evening 16:00 - 19:59 23 reported sightings 35.38% of all reports
Late night 00:00 - 03:59 8 reported sightings 12.31% of all reports
Afternoon 12:00 - 15:59 2 reported sightings 3.08% of all reports
Early morning 04:00 - 07:59 2 reported sightings 3.08% of all reports
Morning 08:00 - 11:59 1 reported sightings 1.54% of all reports

All Alabama Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2015

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Alabama, in 2015

City Number of Reports View Reports
Florence 5 UFO Reports Florence UFO Sightings in 2015
Mobile 4 UFO Reports Mobile UFO Sightings in 2015
Dothan 3 UFO Reports Dothan UFO Sightings in 2015
Tuscumbia 3 UFO Reports Tuscumbia UFO Sightings in 2015
Birmingham 2 UFO Reports Birmingham UFO Sightings in 2015
Montgomery 2 UFO Reports Montgomery UFO Sightings in 2015
Huntsville 2 UFO Reports Huntsville UFO Sightings in 2015
Gulf Shores 2 UFO Reports Gulf Shores UFO Sightings in 2015
Enterprise 1 UFO Reports Enterprise UFO Sightings in 2015
Crane Hill 1 UFO Reports Crane Hill UFO Sightings in 2015
Gadsden 1 UFO Reports Gadsden UFO Sightings in 2015
Harvest 1 UFO Reports Harvest UFO Sightings in 2015
Eastaboba 1 UFO Reports Eastaboba UFO Sightings in 2015
Leeds 1 UFO Reports Leeds UFO Sightings in 2015
Florala 1 UFO Reports Florala UFO Sightings in 2015
Wicksburg 1 UFO Reports Wicksburg UFO Sightings in 2015
Kentucky 1 UFO Reports Kentucky UFO Sightings in 2015
Ranburne 1 UFO Reports Ranburne UFO Sightings in 2015
Semmes 1 UFO Reports Semmes UFO Sightings in 2015
Woodland 1 UFO Reports Woodland UFO Sightings in 2015
Elkmont 1 UFO Reports Elkmont UFO Sightings in 2015
Nanafalia 1 UFO Reports Nanafalia UFO Sightings in 2015
Trussville 1 UFO Reports Trussville UFO Sightings in 2015
Vance 1 UFO Reports Vance UFO Sightings in 2015
Thorsby 1 UFO Reports Thorsby UFO Sightings in 2015
Athens 1 UFO Reports Athens UFO Sightings in 2015
Stapleton 1 UFO Reports Stapleton UFO Sightings in 2015
Shelby 1 UFO Reports Shelby UFO Sightings in 2015
Centre 1 UFO Reports Centre UFO Sightings in 2015
Littleville 1 UFO Reports Littleville UFO Sightings in 2015
Rogersville 1 UFO Reports Rogersville UFO Sightings in 2015
Jones 1 UFO Reports Jones UFO Sightings in 2015
Hamilton 1 UFO Reports Hamilton UFO Sightings in 2015
Lisman 1 UFO Reports Lisman UFO Sightings in 2015
Fairhope 1 UFO Reports Fairhope UFO Sightings in 2015
Vandiver 1 UFO Reports Vandiver UFO Sightings in 2015
Elberta 1 UFO Reports Elberta UFO Sightings in 2015
Red Hill 1 UFO Reports Red Hill UFO Sightings in 2015
Spanish Fort 1 UFO Reports Spanish Fort UFO Sightings in 2015
Hollywood 1 UFO Reports Hollywood UFO Sightings in 2015
Homewood 1 UFO Reports Homewood UFO Sightings in 2015
Hoover 1 UFO Reports Hoover UFO Sightings in 2015
Waverly 1 UFO Reports Waverly UFO Sightings in 2015
Hartford 1 UFO Reports Hartford UFO Sightings in 2015
Salem 1 UFO Reports Salem UFO Sightings in 2015
Fort Payne 1 UFO Reports Fort Payne UFO Sightings in 2015
Harpersville 1 UFO Reports Harpersville UFO Sightings in 2015
Orange Beach 1 UFO Reports Orange Beach UFO Sightings in 2015
Valley 1 UFO Reports Valley UFO Sightings in 2015
Cullman 1 UFO Reports Cullman UFO Sightings in 2015

Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Alabama

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Alabama.

Year Number of Reports View Reports
2024 7 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2024
2023 57 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2023
2022 76 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2022
2021 21 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2021
2020 64 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2020
2019 62 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2019
2018 31 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2018
2017 64 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2017
2016 51 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2016
2015 65 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2015
2014 130 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2014
2013 87 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2013
2012 67 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2012
2011 41 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2011
2010 26 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2010
2009 35 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2009
2008 51 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2008
2007 53 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2007
2006 36 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2006
2005 39 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2005
2004 27 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2004
2003 42 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2003
2002 19 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2002
2001 14 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2001
2000 21 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 2000
1999 30 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1999
1998 18 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1998
1997 11 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1997
1996 7 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1996
1995 13 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1995
1994 9 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1994
1993 3 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1993
1992 7 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1992
1991 1 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1991
1989 1 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1989
1988 3 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1988
1987 4 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1987
1986 2 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1986
1985 3 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1985
1984 6 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1984
1981 1 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1981
1980 5 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1980
1979 2 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1979
1978 6 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1978
1977 3 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1977
1976 4 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1976
1975 6 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1975
1974 5 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1974
1973 14 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1973
1972 6 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1972
1971 2 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1971
1970 2 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1970
1969 3 UFO Reports Alabama UFO Sightings in 1969