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Alabama UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 64 UFO sighting reports in Alabama from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (14 reports, 21.88% of total).
- April is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (12 reports, 18.75% of total).
- Wednesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (12 reports, 18.75% of total).
- 02/02/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 4.69% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (22 reports, 34.38% of total).
Alabama UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 Alabama UFO reports from 2020, 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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single white light rapidly blinking. Decatur Alabama 6:20 pm. clear night stars were out.
total view time approximately 45 seconds. direction of travel approximate 332 degress NW. first sighted directly overhead single white light rapidly blinking.
then after approximately 15 seconds light split into two white blinking lights. One light appeared to orbit the other in circular pattern for 8-10 seconds then rejoined the other light. never changed direction.
disappeared out of view when rooftop of neighbors house blocked line of sight.
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Bright light moving sporadically up and down and across the sky Just south of Birmingham Airport. A bright light was noticed by an airline pilot and reported. The light was moving around up and down really fast.
The light was very bright and more maneuverable than any drone or aircraft I’ve ever seen. The light just suddenly disappeared and the pilots confirmed that there was definitely something flying around out there within the Birmingham Airport airspace.
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Saw a teal light , thought it was lightening at first but the teal color was solid and stayed there for a few seconds and blinked a few times. Reached for my phone to record it, it disappeared with no traces . It wasn’t a power outage.
The teal light was a distance away but very large .
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at Farley Nuclear plant, I was walking outside and saw a slow moving object flying at a slow speed not too far in the sky. It startled me and caught me off guard; however, when I told someone to look, it quickly flew out of the atmosphere at lightning speed. It was sphere-shaped and had a red and bright blue color trailing it.
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Several round pulsating stationary crafts with red, green, yellow orange lights. 9:30 pm. I went to kitchen window where I observed a round pulsating stationary craft.
It was above the tree line but directly in my view. My daughter was awake with sick baby & witnessed everything. We’ve seen them before but to far to video.
This one was practically in the back yard. As I went out the side door of our kitchen, there was another one in front of house. They were low with red, green, a yellow orange lights.
As I was panning the sky for more there was at least 4 more in the distance all around the house. The ones in the distance I couldn’t make out if there was one or a cluster. I was in such awe that I was seeing not 1 but many.
Only the 2 were more visible than others. It was amazing. We see them all the time.
In the videos you can actually see them spin & pulsate. We also see planes a lot so we know the difference. These were stationary for over 45 minutes & I waved & went inside.
Last time the one came back 3 nights in a row in the same ar! ea. Too far to take picture or video but these last night were great!! Video & still pics do no justice! It was awesome!.
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My husband and I decided to talk a walk on the bike trail and around the school. You can see the sky clearer by the school and I started to get a very eerie feeling. I couldn't stop starting at the sky and noticed I was seeing a lot of triangle star patterns.
But when I looked closer I could see multiple black triangular ships all over the sky at least 10. We went home and I wanted to show my children who are teenagers. It was like they where hidden in plain sight.
For someone to glance up, you can't see it. When I was pointing up to show my children the triangle patterns. DIRECTLY over our house one appeared and was a visible UFO.
It was so close just above the roof and the trees. It was a different shape more round and moving south. It was so close to us and it was like it was creating its own light.
There was no sound coming from it, and it was silent all around us. It was like everything was still. I panicked told my husband and saw it fly off in the dis! tance.
Then I stayed outside starring up and see another rounded one appear below one of the triangular ones. I realized I was seeing flashes in the sky and hearing a metal noise also. The vibration in the atmosphere was like static.
A very eerie and amazing experience. I come from the wright patt area and I am used to seeing some things but this was nothing like that and it was like it wanted to show itself to us.
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Large fire ball close proximity Came down from the atmosphere, very fast rate at around 2000 ft is when is past the sky turned into day it was brighter than the sun. It was dark and then light. I have no explanation for what I saw, it was here for a mintue, it slowed down, unlike a meteor its speed slowed to like a car traveling down a high way.
It was so bright, like you wish you had sun glasses, it was 230am, Ive seen comets, and satellites, this came down to 2000ft, I work in aviation. Can anyone tell me what I saw that night. It scared me so bad, I went to my room and locked my door.
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There were three lights, 2 brilliant blue Lights on the sides and 1 green/blue large light in the middle. None of the lights flashed or had typical airline marker lights. It didn’t make any noise that I could hear.
I thought it might have been a drone but it was too large for the height it was at. I stopped in the middle of the road and started videoing through my open sunroof. The object had already came directly over me by the time I got the sunroof open and phone out to record.
It was already passed me but had started moving back toward me, then it moved away from me again. In the video it looks like one light, I guess I wasn’t zoomed in enough on it. The video is a little shaky and it is still dark so nothing to compare the speed to.
The video makes it look like it’s moving fast from side to side but I think that was me moving. There was a vehicle in front of me and I bet they saw it also. This was on Apple Grove road near the old Ryan school.
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It wasn't the normal star. It was strobing and sparkling like a sparkler and it was lower than a star .All the years that I've lived here, I've never seen anything like this in the skies here.
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A command module looking craft. At approximately 1500 hours I witnessed an object traveling East to West across North Jefferson Street/ Alabama HWY 127. I was walking North along the side of the hwy, the object was white in color and had a cylinder shaped section on the top with what appeared to be a bubble window.
The bottom of the object was cone shaped with a silver flat bottom. To be completely honest I swear that what I was a Saturn 5 command module. I saw it for about 5 seconds and just vanished and it made no sound.
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A flying object was seen traveling SW slowly in a straight line. The object had one red and two green flashing lights. The object instantly stopped with no deceleration and hovered for a few seconds and then sped off in the opposite direction towards the east again traveling in a straight line.
It quickly stopped again for a few seconds and hovered again before speeding away at about a 45° angle into the clouds.
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Two white point sources of light (one and then another) rose straight up from NW horizon and slowly faded in brightness while veering off to the NE.
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Light seen moving erratically above cloud layer through NVGs. Gulf Shores AL While on the beach using a PVS-7 NVG, I was looking at the stars when I noticed what I thought was a satellite moving across the sky. It was going about as fast as a typical satellite and then stopped and loitered in one position for about 3 seconds and then redirected about 45 degrees and continued for a short distance then stopped again for about 3 seconds.
It repeated this a few more times, each time moving straight a short distance in a random direction and then stopping completely. It was above cloud height at minimum as I saw it disappear behind some clouds. This all lasted about 15 seconds total before I lost it behind clouds that were moving in.
It only looked like a dim light through my NVGs and I couldn’t discern any shape due to distance.
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Stationary large orange red lights, one light moving out from another to become to separate lights On the beach at Fort Morgan, AL on August 19 around 9:45 pm. My sister and I were on deck of beach house looking south and out over the gulf, at I guess a 30 to 40 degree angle, we saw an orangey red light (appeared larger than Jupiter that was visible that night) in the sky. It was not moving.
A second light seemed to move out from the first and they both were stationary for a moment and then disappeared. I few seconds later, another orangey red light of the same size appeared then after a moment disappeared. After a couple of seconds another red light appeared and as in the first instance, a second light seemed to move out from the first and both were stationary and then they disappeared.
Although the lights were stationary when they appeared, the location of each event seemed to very slightly more eastward. Although not certain, it seems that the appearance of the second single light was slightly lower than the two events involving 2 lights. After the sighting, we called other people out on to the deck in hopes that they would see it too.
There were approximately 15 of us. No more red lights appeared but at about 10:30 pm, to the west above the shoreline, a consecutive burst of lights appeared, seemed like 5 total, then disappeared. It was quick and those who saw it were left with different impressions.
Some thought the lights looked almost square, other though round and some though maybe just cloudy puffs of something. However, one of us got a photo with a phone although it is fuzzy, the photo definitely shows it was lights, not anything cloudy or flame-like. I am aware that there is an airport somewhere to the west of where we were located.
Considering that, there may be a plausible explanation for the lights. However, the red light were definitely not the common red light you see on aircraft. There are quite a few planes flying at night at that location and these lights were oranger, larger, lower and stationary.
And I’ve never seen anything like the second phenomenon.
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Saw 1 bright light that dimmed out & got really bright in an erratic manner, the movement was unlike a plane or anything Ive ever seen I saw this right after it rained and the sun came out bright and sunny with pretty much a clear sky. Our city experienced a double rainbow and of course everyone was looking at it and took to social media (I say this because I might not be the only one who saw it but idk). But that's when I noticed a single, VERY bright light that was small (my first initial thought was a plane or maybe a satellite).
You could tell it was far away. It stuck out like a sore thumb. The brightness of the light was different and that's when I decided to watch it because I've never seen something like this.
From my perspective, it started to moved towards the rainbow. It wasn't moving erratically and not necessarily in a straight line, but instead in a smooth fluid motion regardless if it was gaining or losing altitude. And it was moving fast considering how far away it was.
It's nowhere as fast as a shooting star but it was definitely way too fast to be a plane. Once it got to t! he rainbow, it stopped and sat motionless for maybe a minute or two. It then started to move back in the same direction it came from.
Definitely never seen a plane do that. This whole time while I'm watching this light, the light was going in and out. Not flashing in and out, more like dimming.
It wasn't sequential or in a pattern, you couldn't time it. It was completely random. Sometimes it would vanish for a split second up to a few seconds.
And sometimes the light got brighter all the way up to an obnoxious bright. This went on for about 15 to 20 until I lost sight due to the tree line. A few moments later, I saw AN ACTUAL PLANE in the same general area as I just saw the light.
The plane was very visible and I could easily make out the main components of it, as well as seeing and identifying the familiar flashing lights in perfect unison that all planes have. That's when I realized what I just saw a moment ago was 100% different, no doubt about it.
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Looking out at the stars son and I noticed red craft come on like a beacon go off about six times then it did this with several times coming back in various spots facing the ocean from Baldwin county kiva dune area south west locations then seen multiple craft at various spots come on like lights all around them then they went off several times through out evening we did. Hear military craft but I have seen puff in combat this wasn’t it. It wasn’t flares and it went on and off then the final time they all went off together leaving us befuddled.
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Rectangle dark object hovering and disappearing At Azalea Rd and Halls Mill Rd I was driving my truck and looked up because I thought it was a helicopter but it wasn’t, it was a rectangle dark object. I took a picture of it and looked down to change my phone to video and looked back up and it was gone.
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Very reflective or pulsating white light seen above Daphne AL in broad daylight. Around 1pm I saw a very reflective object move across the sky. I thought it was an airplane but as I continued to observe the object it became very clear it was not an airplane or metallic balloon.
It either kept reflecting the sun or it was pulsating a white light . I watched it for about 5 mins and it went behind a cloud and vanished.
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I was on my patio watching tv. I looked over and saw 2 round discs of lights that hovered and then both shot out of view. I recorded the event.
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Ball of light in an upward arc trajectory Ball of light in northern sky. Not sure of distance from my location but it was obviously larger (closer) than the light from a star, meteor, or satellite. Confirmed on web that ISS was not flying over my location.
Did not have FAA beacons like a plane would have. After noticing the light ball, object moved toward the east in an arc (upward) trajectory for a few seconds and disappeared. No visible trail, just the ball of light moving.
Light was too large for a drone and was much faster than something like a Chinese lantern. Just an eyeball judgement of altitude maybe a few thousand feet above ground level and about 2-3 miles north of my location. There were a few small engine aircraft in the area and object was distinctly different.
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 14 reported sightings | 21.88% of all reports |
Circle | 12 reported sightings | 18.75% of all reports |
Other | 5 reported sightings | 7.81% of all reports |
Sphere | 5 reported sightings | 7.81% of all reports |
Unknown | 4 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Disk | 3 reported sightings | 4.69% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 4.69% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
Triangle | 2 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 1.56% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 1.56% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 1.56% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 1.56% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 1.56% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 1.56% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 1.56% of all reports |
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2020 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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April | 12 reported sightings | 18.75% of all reports |
January | 9 reported sightings | 14.06% of all reports |
February | 8 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
July | 8 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
August | 7 reported sightings | 10.94% of all reports |
October | 5 reported sightings | 7.81% of all reports |
September | 4 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
June | 3 reported sightings | 4.69% of all reports |
May | 2 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
November | 2 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
March | 2 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 12 reported sightings | 18.75% of all reports |
Saturday | 10 reported sightings | 15.63% of all reports |
Sunday | 9 reported sightings | 14.06% of all reports |
Friday | 9 reported sightings | 14.06% of all reports |
Monday | 8 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Tuesday | 8 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Thursday | 8 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2020 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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02/02/20 | 3 reported sightings | 4.69% of all reports |
07/04/20 | 2 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
02/03/20 | 2 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
08/19/20 | 2 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
04/20/20 | 1 reported sightings | 1.56% of all reports |
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 22 reported sightings | 34.38% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 12 reported sightings | 18.75% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 9 reported sightings | 14.06% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 8 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 8 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 5 reported sightings | 7.81% of all reports |
All Alabama Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Alabama, in 2020
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Alabama
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Alabama.