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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:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (33 reports, 50.77% of total).
- November is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (13 reports, 20.00% of total).
- Wednesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (13 reports, 20.00% of total).
- 11/11/15 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 7.69% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (29 reports, 44.62% of total).
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).
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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)).
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6 oval white lights in the sky. Followed us darted back and forth.
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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)).
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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.
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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)).
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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)).
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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)).
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I see this craft a few times a week while outside smoking. Triangle shaped, low flying and no noise at all.
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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)).
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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)).
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we seen big black triangle craft.
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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.
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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.
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Going up a steep hill, I saw a green light that divided, just as it went out of sight.
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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)).
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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.
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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)).
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Blue circle stopped approximately two minutes and moved rapidly. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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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.
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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)).
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Alabama
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Alabama.