All Reported UFO Sightings in Athens, Alabama

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Huge yellow-white sphere 5 times the size of the moon and it was only there for a couple of seconds and then it vanished.

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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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woke up, the power was out, steeped outside to second floor balcony. to see if the power was out just in my apartment, or power was out in the area. The power was out everywhere.

looking at the night sky, was a bright full moon. was hoping to get a good view of the stars, with the power out. But the moon was so bright, was not able to get a good view of the stars.

looking toward the western sky I see a very bright orange light, moving at high speed. Moving from west to east. It had a oval shape.

It had no contrail, made no sound. I was in the USAF. I know what I saw was not any kind of winged aircraft, or meteor.

i estimate it past within a mile or two from were I live. I went around the back of the complex to see if i see more of it. But it was already gone.

Spoke to a man that lives next to me said He saw it also.

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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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Three quickly flashing lights one after the other repeating in order and moving together About 9:45PM CT on 2013-05-20 looking North, there were three flashing (light up then go out) round white lights one after the other with each flashing 2-3 times very quickly(within no more than a second). The flash would occur 2-3 times very quickly, then it would occur again to the left of where the last occurred about half a second to a second later, then again for a third time to the left of the previous again half a second to a second after the previous. It would all repeat again roughly starting back to where the flashes came from the first time (they were moving) and continue in the same order.

The three flashing lights were moving at the same speed, at the same distance apart, and at the same height (being about the same altitude as a large passenger jet would be when circling or turning to land) as they came closer. So it appeared that all three were some how attached. For a brief moment I thought it may have been three airplanes in a formation and their flashing lights just happened to occur to appear one after the other.

It was obviously not a single airplane as the right most and left most flashing lights were to far apart even for a large jet. However, I quickly realized that I've never seen any airplane lights flash 2-3 times very quickly like these did. I therefore continued to watch these flashing lights.

Together they turned and started heading West much like a large airplane would do. The three flashing lights got closer to each other while turning to go West. This is when I called my wife to come outside.

She came out and we watched them until we could no longer see the flashes of lights. It lasted 3-5 minutes from the time I first saw the flashing lights to the point I could no longer see them. To help describe it, a very simple example would be to imagine looking at a stick (horizontal with one end pointing East and the other West) with a light that flashes on the end pointing East, after it stops then a light flashes in the middle of the stick, after it stops a light flashes on the other end of the stick pointing West.

Then slowly turn it so the end the was pointed East points South/South-East and the end that was pointing West points North/North-West. While turning it the lights will appear to get closer to each other. There were no other lights such as a red strobe light or any lights that were constantly on.

No objects could be seen, only the flashing lights. I could not hear any sound but the A/C unit for my house and neighbors were running. The way the three flashing lights appeared to be connected and how they turned would resemble an airplane(a light on each wing and one on the nose or underneath between the wings).

However the span from the light on the right to the light on the left was way to long to be a single airplane. Maybe it could have been three planes in a formation but I've never seen lights on a plane flash 2-3 times that quickly. Also the timing of the lights flashing one after the other would seem very unlikely across three planes.

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fire lights over hwy 72 near Athens Albama Strange fire lights over 12 total were flying over hwy 72 just east of city of Athens. cars were slowing down glaring at these strange "fire lights" flying from north to south about 5 miles of athens near isoms orchards. no formations but were gaining altitude as me and my daughter were trying to figure out what these were.

was not helicopter or plane. japanese lanters is a possiblility but that is guessing on my part.

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Huge, motionless, multicolored ball of light in tree lines. My husband was standing out on our porch smoking and saw a huge multicolored ball looking light right above the trees. He took a picture with his phone.

It is grainy however, you can see spots all around it that appear to be stars. He said the object was silent, very very bright.much bigger and brighter than the stars around it and it was multicolored.

He says it stayed motionless right above the tree line for about 10 mintues. He said he could tell it was huge judging by the size of the stars around it. Unfortunately, I was still asleep and he did not bother to wake me! I was hoping someone else saw this.

The light ball thing he showed me on his phone is soooo bright! It is different than a light bulb or the sunlight! The area is near and around Clements 72 West. Also, object made No sound.

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Bright light appearing over Athens, Alabama and then winked out On above date and time, my wife and I were standing on the back porch smoking. We were facing due south and the sky was clear and the Moon and Mars were brightly visible. Suddenly a bright light appeared in the sky, about a palms width east of the Moon and Mars.

It was traveling slowly in a easterly direction. I could barely make out a saucer shape on the rt. side of the light.

The light was about one and a half times the brightness of the moon. Suddenly the object took off so fast that it appeared to wink out. It was a very quiet night and there was no sound of any aircraft at the time.

My wife is a RN and I am a retired Police Officer. I am 65 and this is not the first time we have witnessed a unexplained sighting. This one was not very dramatic compared to what I've seen before.

Just curious if anyone else might have reported something that night.

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2 Triangular aircraft in Athens, AL I was comming home around 6pm, and as I was pulling into my carport at the back of my house when I saw 2 triangular aircraft. I was so startled that I almost hit the carport. I stopped there and got out of my car.

They were almost directly over my head and barely over the tree tops. They were moving about 10-15 mph. There were steady lights on each corner with a blinking red light in the middle.

There was no sound! For an aircraft to be that low and not make any sound is amazing!.

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Triangle shape object moving silently passed directly over my head. Driving a familiar route just outside of the city, around nine in the evening I noticed a light in the sky. At first sight I thought of an antenna light, but this light was much too bright.

As I approached the end of the road I was on I realized that the light was very close. I was at a "T" section where the road I was on ended at a small county road. There’s a house directly across from where I was stopped at the stop sign.

The light looked to be directly over the house. I thought it looked kind of like the house owners had installed a flood light on an antenna, but the light was much too bright it looked as if it were a couple hundred feet above the house at most. I got out of my car to study the light.

The light the slowly rose maybe another hundred feet or so stopped climbing and began to move forward towards me at a very slow rate. As the light passed directly over me I could make out the shape, it had 3 points that I could make out (like a 3 point star) with a few dimmer lights on the underside of it. The bright light that I had been seeing seemed to be on the front side of the object pointing straight ahead.

The object was only a few hundred feet above me at most. There was absolutely no sound what so ever from the object. The object continued on its course for about a minute when it suddenly changed direction and speed away at a very high rate of speed.

It was out of my sight in a matter of seconds. I am very familiar with civilian aircraft as well as many military aircraft. I have never seen anything remotely like this, or any aircraft that was so completely silent.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).

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Triangular shaped craft with three dimmly lit lights on the bottom of it and It was following something on the interstate going south. Me and my girlfriend and our two freinds were watching a movie one night and I decided to take a smoke break. I was about half way done with my smoke and for some reason I looked straight up in the sky and just as I did I saw a very vivid triangular craft.

It was very cloudy and overcast that night. The only way someone else could have seen It was if they were looking straight up. Anyway, it was a very large craft and it was moving very slowly following the interstate I-65 going south like it was following something on the Interstate.

It had three distinct circular lights on the bottom of the craft which was flat. The craft was black in color. I could not say for sure how high up this thing was but If it would have been a jet It would have shook the place at that altitude.

I remember hearing a lot of traffic (tractor trailers) on the interstate that were heading south. This thing whatever it was, I believe was following trucks on the interstate for some reason. Maybe Military? Transport of nuclear waste? After I spotted it I yelled at everyone to come outside and look and by that time it had dissapeared into the clouds.

This thing had no flashing lights on it anywhere. Just the three dimmly lit lights on the bottom. I saw two or three aircraft in the area to the south but I never saw the craft again.

Like I said it was very overcast and this thing was using the clouds as cover. The clouds were very low to the ground that night. It was only visible for about 15 seconds due to the cover of the clouds.

I dont think this was a little green man ship. My thoughts are It was top secret military craft that was watching or protecting something that was being transported on the interstate in tractor trailer trucks. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.

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Cylinder shaped object travelling at high rate of speed. No contrail, no sound. My husband and I saw a cylinder-shaped object in the partly cloudy sky.

At first, I thought I was looking at an aircraft, but this object had no wings, no contrail, and no sound. It appeared to be at a very high altitude, but this is difficult to penpoint, as I don't know how large the object was. However, there was an airplane traveling from North to South at a high altitude leaving a contrail.

The object in question was travelling from east to west at what appeared to be a high velocity. It literally streaked across the sky in a matter of minutes, two a most, and then disappeared into the horizon. It reminded me of looking at a comet, but this object was moving too fast.

Background--> husband is a NASA engineer at MSFC; I am a high school biology teacher. I am so confounded by what I saw. It fits no logical category of any flying craft that I am aware of.

I am a skeptical person by nature, but I know what I saw was not an airplane. We live in Huntsville but were in Athens visiting relatives.

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UFO sighting in Athens, Alabama The object moved from the southwest toward the northeast for about 10 seconds than then shot off into the northeast but also toward higer altitude at an amazing speed. It appeared to be disk shaped and shiny. It made no sound, but the air did feel odd.

Like a sudden increase or decrease in air pressure and moisture. Not sure which. Happened in late afternoon.