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Alabama UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 57 UFO sighting reports in Alabama from 2023 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "circle" (10 reports, 17.54% of total).
- August is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (9 reports, 15.79% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (12 reports, 21.05% of total).
- 08/16/23 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 5.26% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (25 reports, 43.86% of total).
Alabama UFO Sighting Reports in 2023
This is a sampling of 20 Alabama UFO reports from 2023, 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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High Altitude Craft, Fires object, Capable of stopping. Me & my fiance were outside looking up at the sky for satellite flares or other events, and we thought we spotted a satellite flare, but when I shined my bright blue laser at it, it abruptly stopped, seeming to notice my laser being shined at it. Prior to this, as I went inside, my fiance obsessed the object 'shoot' something out in the direction it was traveling, south.
When the object stopped, we immediately were afraid it was going to harm us, but it began moving again after about 1 minute. I shined the laser again after it started moving, and it stopped again, but only for a moment, then continued south until it just disappeared. I am absolutely certain this was not a satellite flare, an aircraft, or helicopter.
It was far too high, traveling far to fast to be able to stop, and resume motion. I remember precisely the path it took, where it stopped, and where it shot something out. About 1 year prior, we observed a similar event, but after stopping the 2 changed directions and shot off at impossible speeds, but we never reported or spoke of it.
We have been seeing strange things since that day at night.
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During my morning work I noticed a white orb moving from west to east. During my morning work I noticed a white orb moving from west to east, it went behind some trees, and as it came back into view it was going to the east northeast.
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Two fireballs next to each other seeming to not be separated Looked like twin jets or two fireballs next to each other, continued til out of sight over the horizon. Heading east and continued seeming to go down but went out of sight.
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Blue rectangle appear, above the trees, about 30' high, above us, and then shoots off to the West. Three of us saw a very bright robin egg blue rectangle appear, above the trees, about 30' high, above us, and then shoots off toward the West. No noise.
It was seen for about 3 seconds. The light did not seem to illuminate anything.
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Very slow fading orange circle that didn't appear to move. While traveling South on the Foley Beach Express, we observed at first one orange circular light in the southern sky. This orange light would appear for about 10 seconds before slowly fading.
A short time later we observed two orange lights in the same position. These lights appeared then faded in about 7 second intervals. After their third appearance, these lights faded and did not reappear.
These lights did not seem to change position at any time. We estimate their location to be somewhere over the eastern side of Gulf Shores, Alabama.
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At or about 7:52 while traveling northeast on the interstate; I noticed bright shining thing probably 2-3 miles in the sky . The thing was reflecting the morning sun very brightly. My wife saw it as well.
We discussed what it was & then disappeared. It was a cloudless sky .
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Reflective Orb I live on a small farm. We are always outside looking at the stars, as we are able to see constellations easily with it being so dark and far from city lights. On October 8, 2023, my family (husband, mother in law and son) and I were in the front yard just stargazing.
What looked like a star was moving extremely fast while the others were still. I kept my eyes on it because I thought it was a shooting star. When it didn’t stop moving, I realized this was no shooting star.
It wasn’t a plane, there were several of those out as well, all which had blinking lights. This had no blinking lights, and I watched it move SEVERAL miles in probably less than 10 seconds. Then it started moving in circles, very big circles, then it moved up, down did zigzags and this was all within just a few seconds.
I sent my husband in the house to get a flashlight. As he was shining the flashlight toward the area we were seeing this at, the light reflected off a shiny “orb”. I had my phone out videoing the whole thing.
We never could find it again. Later that night, I spent HOURS watching this video. Slowing it down, changing the saturation.
What I found was much more interesting than what I had originally seen. After further observation, I noticed SEVERAL (7-8?) differently shaped objects flying in the direction of the shiny thing we had originally seen. I took screenshots of the video and was amazed at what I was seeing.
I also see on the video an “object” that is shaped like an old “spinning top” toy, and after zooming and changing the saturation, I could also see 4 red lights on this one. The next night 10/9/23, I was curious to see if I could catch something 2 nights in a row. I saw 4 orb objects.
One was moving in a straight line, it didn’t do anything interesting. My husband told me to look directly above us, where we saw 2 orb objects almost playing in the sky. They were headed right for each other.
The last one I saw, I noticed a plane flying toward it but below it. When the plane was almost directly underneath it, it shot up hundreds of feet and then once the plane passed it moved back down. I also got this on video but it will only allow me to enter 4 photos/videos.
I have many many more that I will gladly share if someone contacts me! The video that is included in this post is slowed down. You will first see the shiny object in the upper left reflecting off the flashlight. The last 20ish seconds of the video you will see several objects moving from right to left from the upper right and middle of video.
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basketball size fire ball flying over head me & wife were sitting on the front porch when over the tree line came a basketball size fire ball around 1000ft in the air and flying in a straight line before disappearing. we have video on both of our phones and pictures relevant to similar sightings involving similar objects. this is the 1st time either of us has seen anything like this and we both agree it wasn't natural or man made that we know of.
we honestly do not know.
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Initially noticed something hovering then I started paying attention and watched the next night when the sky was full of movement The first night I only noticed one oblong shape hovering. The second night I was more aware and the sky was full of movement along with many in different shapes ( triangular, oblong, circle, sphere) hovering. I even seen beams of light scan around the said UFO's.
I noticed something falling from the sky on several accounts As I was sitting out watching the sky I heard tin crashing in a neighbors yard. When I looked in that direction I seen something that seemed to be crawling and the eyes were like lights. Then I heard dogs barking in another neighbors direction when I seen the same lighted eyes except this time it was walking with a slump.
I will be watching tonight but I have no camera to take pictures or video. I do apologize, I wish I did.
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Two separate nights, orange orbs blink on and stay static in the sky for seconds before blinking out At Approximately 8:10 pm, September 12, 2023, my friend and I were on the deck of our vacation beach house in Gulf Shores, Alabama, gazing at the southwest sky over the Gulf of Mexico. Suddenly an orange orb appeared in the sky about the size of a nickel held at arm’s length, so it seemed very close. The orb was very bright but not blinding with no aura or light beaming from it, much like a stoplight.
It seemed to blink on like an eye opening. It did not move and was perfectly round. Almost immediately another identical orb blinked on to the left of the first, and then another to its right, all in a straight line and in perfect alignment with each other and none moving.
There was no sound. Moments later they all blinked off. Approximately five to 10 minutes after the three orbs disappeared, what looked like a string of lights appeared lower in the sky and to the right of where the first three orbs were.
These orbs were much smaller than the first three, all in a line and static in the sky. Like the first three, these orbs did not twinkle, although it appeared that one would go out on one end of the string and another come on at the other end. Immediately after this appearance, another identical string of orbs appeared far to the left of the first string and a bit lower in the sky but approximately the same size.
The orbs in these strings were identical in shape and color to the first sighting of three. They remained static in the sky until they disappeared a few seconds after they appeared. There was no sound.
The first photo is of the night sky on September 12 from my seated position on the deck. I’ve overlayed the graphic of orbs to provide an illustration of what we saw. On September 14, 2023, my friend and I were once again sitting on the deck and watching the night sky.
Due south and far out over the Gulf of Mexico, much farther out than the previous sighting, we saw two orange orbs in a line similar in color and shape to the previous sighting on September 12. One of the orbs blinked out within moments, but my friend got a photo of the second orb. The second and third images are of this orb.
The third photo is an enlargement of the second.
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Multiple lights, moving in erratic behavior, then flying south in uniform. I saw some bright light that I thought was a shooting star from the west. I noticed it curved, much like a boomerang, only to vanish into thin air.
This "bright light" would repeat this multiple times. After a few minutes, there were two bright lights that followed each other in a dancing fashion. These bright lights moved extremely quick, considering they were at about the height of an airplane.
They made very quick, and sharp movements in the blink of an eye, only to disappear. After about 20 minutes, 7 bright lights left in uniform fashion (like the air force) heading south. The weather was foggy during the encounter, but quickly cleared up after the group of lights were seen leaving.
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It came out of nowhere went to the east maybe 3000ft in the air then disappeared We were outside looking at the stars there was still a little bit of dusk left to the southwest of us with a few clouds but clear sky right above us with lots of stars. Then all of a sudden these orbs appear out of nowhere going faster then anything I have ever seen in my life in a formation to the north east for about 2 minutes max then it disappeared. Once they were gone all of sudden these weird clouds appeared over us with a trail following the exact spot the orbs were.
Then after I took pictures of the sky u can see the trail they left and the clouds that appeared out of nowhere. All of the dogs in the neighborhood started barking. In one picture u can see this object that looks like cylinder shape.
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Fast, low flying white cloud with object inside turned into triangle craft then shot off. A strange white cloud moving low and fast was spotted over ocean. It looked like a white school bus shaped object inside a cloud.
It all moved as one. I grabbed my phone as it changed shape into a swirling pattern. Then the front became a reflective triangular object.
The triangle shot off in the blink of an eye, leaving the cloud part behind. The cloud stopped moving, turned grayish, and slowly disappeared.
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I thought it was a bright orange star I noticed it was moving very fast and then started recording the quality of the video sucks but you can see the orange blob and how fast it’s moving. I would really like to know if it was some airplane or a UFO. Also it’s very hard to see in the video but it crossed in front of an obvious airplane and that’s how I could tell the orange bright orb wasn’t like that of an airplane.
The airplane had flashing red and blue and white lights, the UFO looked as if was on fire.
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Blue bean of light, green and blue flashing orbs descending from blue light beam in distance night sky as sky was foggy and hazzy, then it fades out completely. Then shortly after where me and my friend was standing looking up as it went away, in the tree line above us a yellowish ord comes flying out of the trees at us. It stopped for a short pause, I saw the lights from street lamps reflecting a yellowesh color.
then zipped away in a flash. No sound.
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Object was bright white, flying horizontally moving faster than any aircraft I seen, (I was a Navy pilot) Object was bright white, shaped like a stubby football, flying horizontally moving faster than any prop aircraft I've seen, (I was a Navy pilot) I would estimate the size of it to be a slight bit larger than a private aircraft. There were no contrails or other exhaust indications. I was indoor and heard no sound.
Never saw anything like it before except on TV. Most aircraft I've seen seem to be flying "slowly" in nearby skies; not this object. It seem to be moving at least twice the speed of prop aircraft in this area.
I would estimate it's altitude to be between 1 -2 thousand feet. There is a small private airport about 5 miles to my north. P.
S. It follows the Good Year blimp that flew a similar path a few days before. I have a video of that.
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It was like a hopscotch drawing but with lights at the center. It didn't last long. I got a paranoid feeling that I wasn't alone, so I went outside.
I heard this unnatural thrumming noise that was slowly getting quieter. I didn't think too much of it; it was probably a helicopter. As I looked northwest though, I saw a string of lights appear in an alternating pattern of one, then two, then one again.
It was like stars actings as hopscotch squares. They disappeared after a few seconds, row by row. I didn't know what to make of it.
I then watched two stars move very quickly to a different location, but they stayed in the same position. Like two points in a diagonal slash. \ I'll share a quick drawing.
My neighbor's dog just wouldn't stop barking until it stopped too.
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Looked into the sky over the bay and these lights were appearing and moving west to east. I looked west over Mobile Bay at 9:36PM and saw 22 lights floating and moving west to east. I initially thought it was Starlink however, the lights were not organized in the same manner in a straight line.
I stop to film the event. It was extremely surreal, as I have never seen anything like it before.
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Only saw the craft for maybe two seconds, and then, as soon as I saw it almost instantly disappeared, but I was able to get full detail It was shaped like a cigar. It had two small fins on it one on each side and was maybe 1000 feet up in the air. It was a very dark brown color and look to be maybe as long as two buses possibly and also seemed like a very skinny craft.
It wasn’t very wide. I made a sketch real fast of it on my hand. As soon as I saw it, I will attach it.
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UFO Talladega National Forrest Sighted object appeared to be puff of smoke but with binoculars looked like 2 aircraft. Were visible for 2 minutes then appeared to travel SW and higher altitude.
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2023 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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Circle | 10 reported sightings | 17.54% of all reports |
Orb | 8 reported sightings | 14.04% of all reports |
Light | 6 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
Unknown | 6 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
Other | 4 reported sightings | 7.02% of all reports |
Cylinder | 4 reported sightings | 7.02% of all reports |
Sphere | 3 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 3.51% of all reports |
Cigar | 2 reported sightings | 3.51% of all reports |
Star | 2 reported sightings | 3.51% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 3.51% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 3.51% of all reports |
Cross | 1 reported sightings | 1.75% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 1.75% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 1.75% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 1.75% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 1.75% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 1.75% of all reports |
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2023 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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August | 9 reported sightings | 15.79% of all reports |
May | 7 reported sightings | 12.28% of all reports |
February | 7 reported sightings | 12.28% of all reports |
January | 6 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
July | 5 reported sightings | 8.77% of all reports |
March | 5 reported sightings | 8.77% of all reports |
September | 5 reported sightings | 8.77% of all reports |
December | 3 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
April | 3 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
June | 3 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 3.51% of all reports |
November | 2 reported sightings | 3.51% of all reports |
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2023 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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Sunday | 12 reported sightings | 21.05% of all reports |
Friday | 8 reported sightings | 14.04% of all reports |
Thursday | 8 reported sightings | 14.04% of all reports |
Wednesday | 8 reported sightings | 14.04% of all reports |
Monday | 7 reported sightings | 12.28% of all reports |
Tuesday | 7 reported sightings | 12.28% of all reports |
Saturday | 7 reported sightings | 12.28% of all reports |
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2023 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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08/16/23 | 3 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
02/12/23 | 2 reported sightings | 3.51% of all reports |
05/14/23 | 2 reported sightings | 3.51% of all reports |
08/06/23 | 2 reported sightings | 3.51% of all reports |
01/18/23 | 2 reported sightings | 3.51% of all reports |
Alabama UFO Sightings From 2023 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 | 25 reported sightings | 43.86% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 15 reported sightings | 26.32% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 7 reported sightings | 12.28% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 6 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 4 reported sightings | 7.02% of all reports |
All Alabama Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2023
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Alabama, in 2023
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Alabama
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Alabama.