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Alabama UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 76 UFO sighting reports in Alabama from 2022 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (11 reports, 14.47% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (10 reports, 13.16% of total).
- Wednesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (19 reports, 25.00% of total).
- 03/01/22 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 2.63% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the evening, between the hours of 16:00 - 19:59 (19 reports, 25.00% of total).
Alabama UFO Sighting Reports in 2022
This is a sampling of 20 Alabama UFO reports from 2022, 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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Hover then depart We saw the fire like glowing object coming toward our house, we walked out and looked at it. It came toward us and hovered for about three minutes, solid glowing lights looked like ball of fire. Then it blasted into the distant faster than anything I have ever seen.
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Unidentifiable Glowing Object This was the first experience I’ve had seeing a UFO/UAP. I was hunting one afternoon in December of 2022 about an hour or 2 before sundown. I was in a tree stand looking down into a hardwood bottom.
Behind me was wide open clear cut. I would occasionally turn my head to look behind me to see if anything was moving across the cutover. Right before 3:30PM, I turned my head and something immediately caught my eye in the sky.
It was a circular, maybe oval, shaped object. It seemed to be glowing but I assumed it to be reflecting light from the sun due to it being a bright white/yellowish glow. As soon as I saw it I knew something was off.
I immediately started trying to deduce things in my head on what it could be but could not come to a conclusion. This object was flying extremely low, too low for commercial aircraft. It was also moving slowly, also too slow for commercial aircraft in my opinion (considering it’s low altitude.
) It did not have any wings, propellers, etc. It didn’t have any sound or navigation lights. It appeared from NW and was traveling SE.
I was stunned and watched it for about 10 seconds until I realized I needed to record it. I reached in my pocket, got my phone, opened the camera, and by the time I found it in the lens it was already all the way across the other side of the cutover. I captured a 9 second video before it disappeared.
Unfortunately the video wasn’t great because it happened quickly. Keep in mind, the area I’m hunting is in central Alabama and very rural. There’s very few people who live around this area.
There’s no nearby big cities, airports, or military bases. I’m not saying it couldn’t be one of those just flying over, but I’m not convinced it was. This was the first object I saw that I deemed to be unidentifiable to my knowledge, and it was during the broad day.
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Traveled horizontally slowly. Stopped and sat for a few secs. Darted down left.
Stopped. Then fast north. We were sitting on the front porch talking.
Not looking up at the sky. Then both of us turned left. We saw an object moveing slowly horizontally to the left.
I said do you see what I see he said yes. It maintained color and degree of luminescence. It stopped and stayed in the same position for a few seconds.
darted down to the left and stopped. Sat there for a few seconds. Then darted North very very quickly and disappeared.
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It looked like a huge battle ship over a dozen long gun like wings it was transparent to the eye. The flying object looked almost pixilated. You could see through it as it hid in the clouds early flying above and across I65.
It looked at first glance like a mass of crows in a formation. But as it came in my field of vision, I could see it was one uniform object. It resembled a tree branch flying.
But these were the wings of this craft. They were bent in various directions similar to crafts in STAR TREK. ABOUT a dozen very long arms extending from two cylinder like centers.
It was moving noiselessly, fast, and purposeful. It seemed to be preparing to land as it crossed the field. I was awe struck.
I immediately called my husband. This craft was not from Earth.
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While driving I saw a spinning disk of lights low to the ground with a red light blinking on top. I was in the car and over the cliff where lights of the city below can be seen. I regularly drive this way at night and I noticed something I haven’t seen before.
Near the horizon line there was a line of yellow lights. I looked closer and they appeared to be spinning and a red light flashed on the top of what appeared to be the disk shape. If this is not a UFO my only guess is that it could be a stadium but the lights were too uniform for that and it would not makes sense that they span.
I took a video of the lights but it is hard to make out the shape. My dad did not see the object but witnessed my reaction and is also familiar with the skyline.
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Strange gray object that seemed like a formation of many objects that changed shape as it moved Twenty minutes ago I went out to look for meteorites since the sky is very clear. After about five minutes, my eyes had adjusted to the darkness. I had my back to nearby parking lot lights so I could get the best view of the sky.
I hadn’t seen any meteorites yet it was easy to spot constellations. While looking toward the Pleiades, I saw this gray, wedge-shaped object moving from SE to NW. It seemed to move and change shape subtly like a formation of birds would fly but it was obviously not birds.
It appeared that this object or formation of multiple objects was being illuminated by the lights from the nearby commercial development. This object drifted to NW as if it was caught in a sea current. It did not travel at a constant rate of speed.
After less than a minute it faded out of view. After pondering what I had just witnessed, I noticed a commercial jet approaching from the same direction that the object did. From looking at FlightAware, this was FDX1200, a 767 flying from Ft.
Lauderdale to Memphis. The object flew much faster that the jet did. The width of the object was about four to five times the width of the 767.
It seems that the object was at a fairly low altitude, maybe 1000 to 2500 feet. The FedEx plane was at 36,000 ft. Minutes after the jet passed, a medical helicopter flew from the NW to the SE at about the altitude that the object seemed to travel.
What seemed to stand out the most was how this object moved and changed shape along the way, silently like a gray ghostly cloud on clear, cold night.
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A hovering “airplane” flying unusually low and then jetting off when we got stationary Me and my father were driving south and this aircraft was driving northeast. I took the video due to the fact that it was stationary for so long. When we pulled up to the gas station the plane seemed to start moving very slowly.
The nearest airport is approximately 20 miles north to that location. Why is it so low, why is it so slow, and why was it stationary?.
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Was pulling out of driveway and rigt in front of me it was in the sky hovering then shot straight up I had been to see my son who lives on highway 17 ,as I was pulling out of the drive straight across from me in the sky was a large silver disk it hovered for a moment then shot straight up it was not quite dark so I could see it plainly. I was really freaked out by this.
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See them daily. Coming close to me now. Saw alien creatures recently.
Seen day and night. I'm seeing VERY many various shapes, sizes, colors and all are shape shifting. I have 3 videos of fake planes.
They're all ufos disguised as planes. I'm seeing them day and night. I have so many pics that it was hard to choose.
Only one created a reddish pink mist. Animals across street starts barking when ufos comes down low. Had a tiny one fly in front of my face.
Caught it in video. All had different mannerisms. Some hovered for long periods.
Some flew by fast. In the 1st picture, a big white one with tiny little ones all around it are on the ground and what looks like aliens behind it looking at the tree which has ufos beside it. I've caught one's with MANY lights around entire circular shape.
I hear a low humming noise but not always. I see these by the hundreds at times. As stated, I have 3 videos of fake, shape shifting planes and TONS of pictures of all different kinds, colors, shapes and sizes of these ships (ufos).
Never thought I'd see this day come and especially never thought I'd be filling out a UFO sighting form. I've been a huge skeptic all my life. Not anymore! Much thanks! Connie Merrihew.
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I saw it fly in and there was blue lights on it blue lights.
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Red orbs that made a V I was on the back porch, looking Into the sky I take photos of the stars often and right in the low cloud bank a V of red individual orbs flew silently over top m of my apart, It was like something I've never seen before right out of a movie. A massive sense of fear washed over me because I knew this was truly unworldly.
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I was stopped in traffic and saw a bright white light in the sky. It made a circle and then a straight line and disappeared. I was driving on schillinger rd s towards Howells ferry rd.
I stopped in traffic between the intersection of tanner Williams rd and old shell rd. I saw a bright white light around 6:50 am 7:00 am. It made a complete circle and faded off into a straight line before disappearing.
The whole encounter lasted maybe 15/20 seconds. I didn't think much of the situation at first because it was next to a coast guard base. But after thinking about it I became more concerned it was something else.
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Large bright stationary object - then disappeared. My wife and I were resting on a deck overlooking Mobile Bay facing SW to W. I saw a bright light in the cloudless sky about 90 degrees off horizon.
Looked like large bright aircraft - but did not move and was stationary for long time. I then took a few photos and zoomed in on the very bright object. I then took a short 11-second video and object disappeared.
My wife also saw this object. We were totally perplexed trying to figure out the object was so high in the sky, so bright and then fast disappearing. I am a former military pilot.
I had not consumed any alcohol. When the photo is zoomed in on, it has hard angles shapes, and blinked. It disappeared very fast.
I’ve never seen such an object.
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cigar shaped large craft with twinkling lights moving slowly and making no sound from over the tree tops was a series of lights in a linear formation slowly making its way south bond at a steady speed size estimated to be about 150 yards making no sound at all video footage of event is available just cant upload it to your site.
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I have seen several that have appeared many nights in a row. These things are odd. They tend to shape, morph, change direction at rapid rates, and don’t necessarily keep a consistent shape.
They don’t seem to have a certain path. Sometimes they’re diamond or square, they appear and disappear out of thin air. I have a video of one reverse at an extremely high level speed the take off.
I have another video of one disappearing as it flies. I have another video of one appearing as a bright light/star or fireball looking thing in the sky that stands still, then slowly morphing into a plane looking thing. I have several pictures and videos that are EXTREMELY tangible.
These things are abnormal. I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s happened all week.
They start around 7 PM central time and continue all night. They are loud. They roar.
Almost like tornadoes.
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A visual distortion of objects in night sky buy "cloaked" object I work 3rd shift at a rehab facility on Lay Springs Rd. On the night of the "event", during my walk across campus, I was looking up at the night sky when I noticed a portion of the sky appeared to be distorted visually. Initially I considered the fact that it could be my eyes but when two of the stars moved from behind the "distortion" it was clear that an object in the sky was causing the effect.
Within seconds it moved into empty space with nothing behind it from my vantage point and wasn't seen again. I remember feeling a tingle in my body, but likely due to the cold and seeing (not seeing) this object. Object was translucent but distorted 3 stars and what I believe was Venus leading me to believe this thing was in our atmosphere based on the number of astrological bodies distorted at once.
Deer in field ahead of me ran off, but could have been due to my presence, even though I wasn't as close as close to them as I normally was when they typically run off.
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Watched a bright white light pass overhead. I was standing in my yard when I saw a white light coming in my direction. It was about as bright as Jupiter is in the sky tonight.
I called my grandson to come out and see it. It was traveling along US Highway 82 from Tuscaloosa to Montgomery direction. I did not hear a sound from it.
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Object spotted on slow motion video. The object was captured on slow motion video while filming from the shore and facing out over the ocean. No one standing on the shore noticed the object in real time.
It was not until later we were watching the video of my son fishing that we noticed the object. It takes up 5 seconds of the slow motion video, which would have been just a split second in real time, but it moves across the entire sky in that short time. There were no strange sounds noticed.
The object appears at the 30second mark of the video and ends at the 35 second mark. Still frame pictures are added as well with the object circled in different places. The sighting took place from the address 1993 West Beach Blvd, Gulf Shores, Alabama, 36542.
We were on vacation and renting this property for the week.
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Cigar shaped with a bright circular light to the left of craft After watching the object in the sky for around 1 minute, I started to video. While doing so, I was not watching their my camera, but still with my naked eye. After the object finally disappeared, I started to watch the video.
At 32 seconds into the video, something "glitched" and only lasted a split second. I then began to edit/slow down the video and that's when I saw it. A grey object with what appears to be some kind of smoke emitting from around it.
You can clearly see details on one side, and it doesn't look smooth. I did not see it land, but just kind of fade from sight.
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Long rectangular craft with white uniform lights. Sitting on front porch with 3 family members, simultaneously we noticed a cigar-box (rectangular) shaped aircraft in the eastern sky. Uniformly lit down the side with white lights and moving slowly north.
It maintained a steady course and speed, then seemed to fade away after a couple of minutes. We were not able to capture video or photo, but it was the same craft as reported on 09/05/22 in Foley, AL.
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2022 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 | 11 reported sightings | 14.47% of all reports |
Circle | 10 reported sightings | 13.16% of all reports |
Unknown | 6 reported sightings | 7.89% of all reports |
Disk | 6 reported sightings | 7.89% of all reports |
Changing | 5 reported sightings | 6.58% of all reports |
Cylinder | 4 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 3.95% of all reports |
Cigar | 3 reported sightings | 3.95% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 3.95% of all reports |
Formation | 3 reported sightings | 3.95% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 1.32% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 1.32% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 1.32% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 1.32% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 1.32% of all reports |
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2022 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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October | 10 reported sightings | 13.16% of all reports |
June | 10 reported sightings | 13.16% of all reports |
March | 9 reported sightings | 11.84% of all reports |
January | 9 reported sightings | 11.84% of all reports |
September | 9 reported sightings | 11.84% of all reports |
February | 6 reported sightings | 7.89% of all reports |
May | 6 reported sightings | 7.89% of all reports |
December | 5 reported sightings | 6.58% of all reports |
August | 5 reported sightings | 6.58% of all reports |
November | 4 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
April | 2 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 1.32% of all reports |
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2022 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 | 19 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Saturday | 12 reported sightings | 15.79% of all reports |
Tuesday | 11 reported sightings | 14.47% of all reports |
Thursday | 11 reported sightings | 14.47% of all reports |
Friday | 8 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
Sunday | 8 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
Monday | 7 reported sightings | 9.21% of all reports |
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2022 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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03/01/22 | 2 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
01/26/22 | 2 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
05/04/22 | 2 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
09/21/22 | 2 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
06/04/22 | 2 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2022 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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Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 19 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 17 reported sightings | 22.37% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 17 reported sightings | 22.37% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 11 reported sightings | 14.47% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 6 reported sightings | 7.89% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 6 reported sightings | 7.89% of all reports |
All Alabama Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2022
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Alabama, in 2022
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Alabama
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Alabama.