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Decatur, Alabama UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 10 UFO sighting reports in Decatur, Alabama to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (3 reports, 30.00% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 20.00% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 30.00% of total).
- 2014 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 20.00% of total).
- 10/21/12 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 10.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the evening, between the hours of 16:00 - 19:59 (3 reports, 30.00% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Decatur, Alabama
These Decatur, Alabama UFO reports are 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).
Full Report Text:
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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We saw 3 lights in a triangle shape. They were pulsing and at one point they seem to stack on top of each other. They seem to change color.
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Coming from Huntsville and saw like a white cylinder hovering in the sky. Thought it may have been plane but it didn't move. Thought it may be top of cell tower, but no tower below it.
Passed some trees while watching it and once we cleared the trees it was gone. My husband was driving and my two kids were in the car, but none of them saw what I saw.
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Strange orangish lights in sky, Alabama. About twenty minutes before the sun goes down, I noticed two very bring objects which are a bright orange, sometimes changing to a darker less bright orange. Then, as a aircraft flew through the sky two lights were seen.
The orange things seem to move together , and then sometimes they move separately. And the sun went down and I took a moment to look up again, I see the two brightest objects are more of a a red color. I keep seeing these strange red an orange lights in this area, local need had no unrest in this however.
I am trying to find someone in my area who knows Moore about astronomy.
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Has been happening almost every night for several months, multiple orange glowing and or flashing orb like lights, few-ground: most-sky I am usually not one to believe in the paranormal, or aliens, or UFO type things. I also am not usually a star gazer. However, after seeing two orange, glowing, floating, very close by, orb-like lights; I am convinced that SOMETHING is not right in the Alabama night sky! I don't understand how people are dismissing ALMOST ALL of the many reports of these strange lights as Chinese lanterns, planes, jets, etc.
What I seen that first night, about four months ago has led me to pay alot more attention to the sky at night especially. What I have seen EVERY SINGLE NIGHT with the exception of four or five nights (too cloudy to see anything in the sky) has me quite frankly terrified. I believe there is a huge problem with this rash of strange lights, and why are so many people seeing this stuff, and it's not in the media, it's like all being dismissed to the point I wonder about government cover up, but then again, maybe most really believe the dismisal explanations are true.
What I have seen EVERY NIGHT, and you can come to Decatur Alabama as well, any night, and see also, cannot possibly be lanterns, you cannot convince me that peoples' lanterns are going in unison type lines together, flashing colors at each other (most the time it's orange fire looking colored, but also suddenly flashing to red, white, green, or blue) it often looks as if whatever they are the lights are trying to communicate. But you also can't convince me that they are planes, seeing how what I am seeing tends to NOT travel much, or else it travels so fast you will miss it if you blink. These lights seem to me to be in almost the same general areas of the sky every night.
They seem to me to also be "trying" to blend in with star formations like the dippers, and even blending with rooftops and trees as someone else said on the NUFORC pages. I am not the only one at my home who has seen the lights above Decatur, my adult nephew has seen them, and like me, he can't figure out what the lights are. My niece and I both seen multiple of these glowing orb like lights land behind the backyard fence, in our neighbor's out back yard, late one night, some were not completely landed, as they were simply floating around fence level, some were just above the roofs of houses close by out back.
Another house, that same night, had what apeared to be a huge, floating fireball just barely above their roof. My niece and I came inside as things got too weird watching the lights outside, so we went upstairs, leaving the house lights off, and watched out the window for several minutes, as the fireball looking one floated in one spot, and the orange orb ones on the ground in the neighbor's yard outback, moved ever so slow, then sudden, then slow, and as the other orange orb looking ones that were floating at what looked like fence! level just sort of would rise and sink, rise and sink. Trust me I know how this all sounds, I wouldn't be posting this if I didn't feel very strongly that these lights are BAD NEWS, if they were nothing of concern why wouldn't or couldn't we all just know what is going on, why wouldn't these lights (which are showing up literally all over the world) be on the news, or something.
The lights that stay in the sky at night, the ones that seem to "try" to blend in with the trees and rooftop areas, they are the ones that flash different colors. Sometimes they seem to stay orange, other times they flash red, blue, white, and I am pretty sure they every now and then flash green. These lights seem as if they communicate.
Once again, I was never a star gazer, and I don't want to post on a website exactly what: however, I did something I should not have done, and have been scared to go outside and smoke a cigarette at night since. Again, I know how this must sound, I am the last person who I would have expected to now be questioning UFO exisistance, but since NOBODY definatively knows or will say what these lights are for sure, then that factually makes them UNIDENTIFIED, flying lights and or objects.
Full Report Text:
Red, White, and Blue object, moving and gliding with sudun stops, below Orion's Belt. The object is/was beneath Orion's Belt more toward the horizon. It seems to shine between reds, whites, and blues, dare I say some shifts of light directly at my location.
I want to say it's a planet, but I've been watching this thing weave back and forth and descending. I won't claim it's anything unworldly and maybe being so close to the horizon the light had some drift causing this effect, but it was and is definitely new to me as an novice star gazer of over a decade.
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Driving east just before dawn the sky was cloudless. Suddenly a cloud appeared very dence about the size of a football field. it was at 11 o:clock to my position range was about 5 mile.
I thought how strange only one small cloud in all this sky. As i drove i watched it evaporate, disapere. A few moments passed and suddenly it was back.
It was now about 10 o:clock to my position and again it evaporated. It's position seemned to remain the same. Then it reapeared a third time very dense at first and now at 9 o:clock and only a half mile away.
The temperature was about 29F. dry cold air no jet condedsate trails. Could a hot moist enviroment ben generated as a dementional or time craft or crafts stopped for a few seconds to get a bearing on where they were at ? I am making no clame.
It's just something to think about.
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8 Tentcle type things made of beams attached to a circular craft. I wasnt sure about actual time but i remeber it well. I was scared the Object(UFO) was circular and had 8 tentacle things (machinary) it looked like a metal octopus with beams and stuff.
The craft was circular.This was bout 4 years ago>.
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mid 1970's UFO over Decatur,Alabama The summer of 1973 or 1974, my mother,brother and I were sitting outside on a hot summer evening; I was 15 or 16 years old. The sky was clear. 1 by one, bright neon colored round lights in different colors appeared overhead until they formed a HUGE circle formation; it stayed that way until a cloud covered it and it dissapeared,leaving the star filled sky.
we all oohed and ahhed; the radio announced within a half hour that they recieved over 250 calls about this. They said that the NASA center in Huntsville,Alabama stated it was weather baloons; years later, I saw the same type of 'event' in the movie CLOSE ENCOUNTERS. I have not seen this event posted any place else! It was beautiful,and I'll always remember that moment when I saw my one and only UFO.
((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
Decatur, Alabama UFO Sightings 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 | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Decatur, Alabama UFO Sightings 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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May | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
October | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Decatur, Alabama UFO Sightings 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 | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
Thursday | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Friday | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Monday | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Decatur, Alabama UFO Sightings 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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10/21/12 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
02/27/14 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
02/17/14 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
05/15/16 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
05/21/19 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Decatur, Alabama UFO Sightings 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 | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Decatur, Alabama
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Decatur, Alabama.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2020 | 1 UFO Reports | Decatur, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2020 |
2019 | 1 UFO Reports | Decatur, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2019 |
2016 | 1 UFO Reports | Decatur, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2016 |
2014 | 2 UFO Reports | Decatur, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2014 |
2012 | 1 UFO Reports | Decatur, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2012 |
1998 | 2 UFO Reports | Decatur, Alabama UFO Sightings in 1998 |
1973 | 1 UFO Reports | Decatur, Alabama UFO Sightings in 1973 |
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