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Alabama UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 62 UFO sighting reports in Alabama from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "triangle" (11 reports, 17.74% of total).
- December is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (10 reports, 16.13% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (14 reports, 22.58% of total).
- 12/18/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 3.23% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (24 reports, 38.71% of total).
Alabama UFO Sighting Reports in 2019
This is a sampling of 20 Alabama UFO reports from 2019, 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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I was driving northbound on County Line Rd. towards Hwy 72 heading home. At first I noticed the lights and thought it was from a water tower or something similar such as an antenna.
As I got closer passing the Publix shopping center, the lights began to move in such a way that indicated the lights were rotating. I then turned into the parking lot close to the Redstone FCU and immediately turned around to try to catch it on camera. The craft was triangle in shape based on the 3 white lights on the corners.
There was also a red light, which appeared to be on the bottom. It sped off and I could not catch up to it.
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I was driving down the red mountain expressway, and saw a large silver disc/circular shaped craft in the sky. It moved unnaturally from one point to another. Speeds that aren't possible.
I tracked it for around 45 seconds trying alert others on the road to the object. It had what looked like larger thrusters cylindrical shaped on two sides. Golden aura around the thrusters.
I looked away to exit the highway, and when I looked back I saw it for a split second, and then it vanished.
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MADAR Node 63.
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Bright light trailed by a green glowing light attached.
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MADAR Node 63.
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Quiet Triangular overall shape with 4 dark amber lights (possible windows) On the eveing of 12/25/2019 while at work (nurse) in Madison Alabama, I stepped outside the facility to call my wife at approx 7:40 pm, and noticed when I stepped outside, what at appeared to be a large aircraft (ascending up) from approx 500+ feet over tree tops and Hwy 72, to the side of the facility where I was located. Initially there were 2 large amber lights (possibly windows), these 2 points of light were approx 500+ feet apart, followed by a second amber light(again possible window) following at approx 750+ feet, then followed by another (4th amber light, trailing at another 800 to 1000 feet. When I first seen it, I told my wife on the phone immediately, "let me call you back"! I began trying to flip on the camera on the cell phone and it unfortunately was showing me on the camera, instead of the outward photo image, I finally got the phone camera to work, so that I could video the image before me… This object was massively large, moved effortlessl! y and slowly, was dead quiet, made 0 sounds, again had ONLY of 4(overall) dark amber lights (window appearance).
The object was traveling in a North heading, then turned to it's left, heading then NW, towards the city of Athens, which at this time, is my beginning video of the 2 lights moving away from the camera. As the camera pans down, you'll see a single amber light moving from left to right slowly.This is the fourth amber light mentioned initially and trails off, continuing in a northern direction projectory.
As I am quite familiar with the "Phoenix Lights Incident" of 1997, and it's details, I truly believe my sighting was a Triangle, with very much the same details, much like that one and knew IT, when I SAW it, and I know my mouth fell open. This was a humbling experience and an amazing craft! Folks, hate to tell you this.WE"RE NOT ALONE!.
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6 Bright lights over Hartselle Alabama My 29 year old son was traveling Interstate 65 south from Decatur Al going home from work. Approaching the Hartselle exit he noticed these lights in the sky around 5:39pm and stopped to photograph them. Multiple cars were also stopped taking photos.
The lights in the image seem to be oblong but he said that was his camera as the lights were a solid circle. They hung around about 5 minutes then disappeared. I don’t know what they would want in Hartselle but Redstone Arsenal is in Huntsville,Al, about 25-30 minutes away by car.
I’m assuming a few seconds in ufo speed.
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In the west southwest sky near capricornus, there is a large, bright light. The light is yellow-white and undulating. Off and on we can see two red and two green lights on it.
It's been there for 25 minutes now. It's silent and stationary. It flickers wildly.
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Craft moving very slowly or not at all clear blue sky about 9 o'clock in Western sky in small air craft space then accelerated in unbelievable speed and disappeared. Lots of people on 431 I know they seen it to. Had to to big not to.
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it was silver and flew across the sky to the left and down (SW if on a compass) my sister and i were driving home from basketball practice on the interstate and we saw a silver flash of light fly through the air at a high rate of speed and lasted around 5 seconds. this was too close to us to be a shooting star but too far away that we could specifically find out what it is.
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Bright Green Fireball Bibb Co. AL Bright Green Flash in sky, then it shot out of sight like a rocket, I pulled off the road along with another person that was driving in the North bound lane, he asked me WTH was that. I told him IDK.
But it’s not anything normal, it happened right over the Green Pond Fire Dept building, that’s we’re we pulled off road at. Maybe they have cameras, it happened to quick for me to do anything.
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Red/orange lights. First seen as a single long light. They moved in the blink of an eye with no sound, about five miles from where it was first spotted,and then they disappeared.
Seconds later each individual light came on in sequence in a straight line and then off in sequence. The on and off sequence continued three times then disappeared all together.
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Small light hovering slowly about 200-300 ft off the ground. Was walking dogs down street, at first glance thought It was a star then noticed it was hovering slowly and not but 200-300 feet off ground. Light moved slowly passed us, I had my flashlight in Hand and turned it towards the light.
after doing this the light vanished but I could still see something in the sky for about 5 seconds. The whole time we could not hear it make any sound, it was quiet.
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a round, illuminated object with a "counter-clockwise arrow" on the face moving slowly from overhead to east. At sunset, saw what I thought was a planet or mini-moon overhead or a little north-northwest of center/zenith. Over time it moved/floated east/southeast at a very high altitude.
I then thought it might be a balloon, but it was perfectly round. With binoculars, I was able to see a design on the "face." It was a semi-circular arrow beginning at 12 o'clock and going to the left until about 7 o'clock.
It was opaque and two-toned and appeared to be lit from within. It started out bright white and faded to ivory as it headed east and faded away.
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Bright circular object floating across the Mobile, AL sky It began when my wife and I were standing in our backyard enjoying the nice afternoon weather we were having. I am a private pilot myself and we live below an approach into KBFM that is used when the winds are out of the south so I am looking up into the sky quite often to see what types of aircraft are flying. Being a private pilot with more than 100 hrs flying and an aviation enthusiast in general I am quite competent at identifying aircraft.
My wife is a homemaker with little experience in aviation other than the occasional vacation, but living in our area and like I said under an approach she still sees quite a bit of aircraft. My location at the time of the sighting was 30 deg 42' 20" N by 88 deg 8' 10" W. I was facing 320 deg.
when I first saw it and the object was tracking a SE course. I looked up into the NW sky and I saw what at first I thought was a small cloud due to the color. It was very bright.
Then I realized there were no clouds in the sky on this particular day. It was hard to say what altitude the object was at. If I was to give a number it would be a total guess.
I began to notice that this object was actually moving across the sky. It was moving very slowly about the speed a blimp flies. No way an airplane could fly this slowly and still be able to produce lift.
There was no sound associated with this craft. My wife and I stood there and watched it until it crossed behind the roof of my house. So I ran to my front porch to continue watching.
From my front porch I have a massive unobstructed view of the sky. I can see for miles. I stood at my front door watching this object for maybe 5 minutes and I decided that given the speed the object was moving I could run inside to grab a drink and return and still see the object.
After quen! ching my thirst I returned to the front porch to find and empty sky. There was no way at the speed it was traveling that it could have gotten out of my view in the short time I was inside. The object never reappeared.
I will include pictures I was able to take of the craft. My pictures will be in the email titled Mobile, AL Sighting. Some of them are zoomed in and the object looks pretty weird.
All of the zoomed in pictures show some sort of tentacle looking object protruding from the craft. It is hard to tell if these are just camera quality problems or if something is really there, but they do appear in multiple shots.
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We saw four connected bright lights. My fiancé and were returning home to Fort Payne, AL, from Huntsville, AL after a Chris Young concert. We were right outside of Scottsboro, AL, when we saw four bright lights above the tree line.
We first thought they were either bright car lights in our lane ahead or possible stadium lights from a football field. Upon getting closer we could see the lights were way above any trees. There were four lights lined up directly side by side and they stayed that way for about five minutes.
Then, they shut of just like headlights.
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Light in the night sky moved and stood still and flew around for many minutes. Me and my girlfriend were looking at the stars around 8pm, it was kinda cloudy and lightning could be seen on the horizon lighting up the clouds over the ocean. As we sat there we noticed something moving in the sky.
The object, about the size of a small star, would move from one spot to one another and stay still almost blending in with the stars. Also, I saw once that very dim light from the object would be reflecting onto the clouds as it flew. It would disappear behind the clouds as well.
When it would move It moved at about the speed of an airplane. It even did some circular loop movements up and down that were way too fast to be a plane. It would stop completely still and I would put my two fingers in between it to make sure I was actually seeing what I was seeing and sure enough it would move to another spot.
It would sit still for a few minutes and then move to another spot and sit still like a star. At one point we thought we saw multiple lights mov! ing in a similar fashion but we tossed that up to us hyping it up. There definitely was one “craft” that I followed for as long as it was around being about 20 min.
Not sure what we saw but it was odd. Other air craft were clearly seen in the sky but the way this one moved was different and the lights never blinked only a solid light like a dim star.
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Two large disc shaped bright solid objects were observed by 5 adults. They moved slowly and disappeared over the tree line. They appeared to be huge.
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My husband was checking on our boat, I was looking at full moon. I saw a large bright light traveling fast from North to South. My husband started watching, it was a bright round light, it slowed down eventually stopping.
I was able to take three pictures. The pause lasted appropriately a minute. It started moving due East and progressed rapidly.
We have watched the recent meteor shower. This was totally different and very bright, the moon is almost full, the brightness was incredible. Gulf of Mexico area.
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Saw bright white light cigar shape moving very fast.
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2019 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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Triangle | 11 reported sightings | 17.74% of all reports |
Light | 10 reported sightings | 16.13% of all reports |
Circle | 6 reported sightings | 9.68% of all reports |
Fireball | 6 reported sightings | 9.68% of all reports |
Cigar | 5 reported sightings | 8.06% of all reports |
Other | 5 reported sightings | 8.06% of all reports |
Sphere | 4 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
Disk | 3 reported sightings | 4.84% of all reports |
Unknown | 3 reported sightings | 4.84% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 1.61% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 1.61% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 1.61% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 1.61% of all reports |
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2019 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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December | 10 reported sightings | 16.13% of all reports |
October | 8 reported sightings | 12.90% of all reports |
May | 7 reported sightings | 11.29% of all reports |
July | 6 reported sightings | 9.68% of all reports |
September | 5 reported sightings | 8.06% of all reports |
November | 5 reported sightings | 8.06% of all reports |
August | 4 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
June | 4 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
March | 4 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
February | 4 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
April | 3 reported sightings | 4.84% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 14 reported sightings | 22.58% of all reports |
Sunday | 10 reported sightings | 16.13% of all reports |
Wednesday | 10 reported sightings | 16.13% of all reports |
Monday | 9 reported sightings | 14.52% of all reports |
Saturday | 8 reported sightings | 12.90% of all reports |
Friday | 6 reported sightings | 9.68% of all reports |
Tuesday | 5 reported sightings | 8.06% of all reports |
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2019 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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12/18/19 | 2 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
02/21/19 | 2 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
07/04/19 | 2 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
11/10/19 | 2 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
12/30/19 | 2 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 24 reported sightings | 38.71% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 16 reported sightings | 25.81% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 9 reported sightings | 14.52% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 6 reported sightings | 9.68% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 4 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 3 reported sightings | 4.84% of all reports |
All Alabama Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Alabama, in 2019
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Alabama
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Alabama.