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Helena, Alabama UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 8 UFO sighting reports in Helena, Alabama to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "circle" (2 reports, 25.00% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 25.00% of total).
- Monday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 25.00% of total).
- 2001 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 25.00% of total).
- 06/23/01 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 12.50% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (5 reports, 62.50% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Helena, Alabama
These Helena, 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:
Ball lightning? While sitting on my back porch last night, I observed what may have been ball lightning but I’m not sure. There were thunderstorms in the area with vivid lightning, but no active storms in the immediate area. It was 75 degrees F, humid with a light breeze and mostly cloudy.
Facing west at 8:32pm, seated and speaking on the phone, I observed a ball of light that was whitish-blue ascend diagonally about 20 degrees above the horizon. It appeared to level off slightly before changing to a pinkish-bluish-purple color as it arced back toward the ground to the point where my view was obstructed. The event lasted 5 to 6 seconds.
There were no sounds heard during the event or right after it occurred. When the ball of light first appeared, it seemed to ascend, arcing toward the east/southeast. When it leveled off briefly, it seemed to travel toward the east.
When the light descended, it appeared to arc toward the northeast. The brightness of the light seemed to get slightly brighter as it traveled, which makes me think it was moving closer to my position. The ball of light looked like a roman candle type of light.
No sparks were emitted from it like what happens as meteorites travel through the atmosphere.
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I saw a single bright light in the sky for 5 seconds that I thought was a plane and then it just disappeared. I was outside in my backyard at dusk and suddenly saw a single bright light in the sky. It appeared as though it was an airplane flying overhead toward me.
The light was there for about 5 seconds and then it just disappeared. It was as if it went into a cloud, however it was a clear evening and there were no clouds in the sky. I kept looking for the “plane” for a couple of minutes, but never saw it again.
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Single light appearing before dusk appears to be multiple objects before disappearing This evening my wife and I were with our 20 month old daughter in our backyard so my daughter could play in her baby pool. I looked up to see any aircraft visable as we are about 100 miles west of ATL and we usually have good air traffic overhead. I noticed a light that would be similar to the brightness of Venus directly overhead, but at about 85 degrees, slightly to the west.
I asked my wife if she could see it and she said that she did. No other lights were visable in the sky and 30 minutes later in the same spot where we witnessed this, there are still no other lights in the sky, including and stars or planets. The light was stationary as far as we could tell.
At one point I picked up my daughter and leaned her back and asked her if she could see it. She pointed to the light. After 10 minutes, the sun had set over the horizon or behind clouds to the northwest.
The light was no longer there but my wife said that she could still see it. I could not but as I tried, two aircraft in the area allowed my eyes to focus back on the object. At that moment my wife said that there were now 3 objects.
I noticed that the main object appeared doughnut shaped and the other two appeared as smaller dots. To me it looked like one of the dots shot out of the larger doughnut. After only about a minute of looking at this strange cluster of objects, they disappeared.
These objects were far higher than the altitude of the commercial airplane traffic that was in the area. The weather conditions at the time were 85 degrees F, humidity 59 percent, wind south at 1 MPH with a visibility of ten miles. The sky was and still is partly cloudy with showers off to our northwest about 20 miles away.
One last detail. For some reason last night, I was out after dusk and had an uncommon urge to look up at the sky as if I was looking for something out of the ordinary. I don't look for strange things but last night I just felt the need to and then tonight we saw something strange.
Interesting.
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Appear to see two white drones while a radar "blob" phenomenon occurs near Redstone Early this evening, I was watering plants in my backyard. As a big fan of aircraft, I tend to check for traffic in the sky. At 17:35, I looked up and noticed two white craft, one behind the other and slightly to the starboard side of the leading craft.
At first glance the two craft looked military. Then I noticed how they looked more rounded at the nose which then made me think that they were drones. This made a lot of sense because the two craft were moving fast relative their altitude.
If they were at a higher elevation then their airspeed would have been pushing supersonic and there were no subsequent sonic booms. I estimate that these two craft were around 1000 - 1200 feet. They were traveling from north to south near the I-65 corridor.
The sky was mostly clear, warm, humid, around 85 degrees with a light SE wind. The two crafts were out of view in under fifteen seconds. I made a point to try to listen to the noise produced by these craft.
Am! idst some background traffic and neighborhood noise, I could hear a slight whine that would seem to be associated with a turboprop engine, but much quieter. The event ended and I thought that I had witnessed my first domestic drone flights- nothing more. Only until a few minutes ago did I think that I "only saw two drones".
Media outlets in Huntsville, AL are now reporting a mysterious radar "blob" echo that appeared on multiple radar products over the Huntsville area this afternoon, exactly over the northwest corner of Redstone Arsenal. Here is a link to the current radar blob event: http://valleywx.com/2013/06/04/mystery-blob-over-west-huntsville/ Huntsville is about 117 miles north of my location.
Maybe these were simply drones returning to Eglin AFB after an exercise in cloaking. Needless to say, the event that I witnessed in conjunction with media reports about a radar blob with Internet chatter of ongoing C-5 activity was enough to make me share this with you.
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craft traveling VERY VERY FAST. Red flashing lights. Tried to track with telescope,craft much to fast to do so.
Red blinking lights moving(1)east and curving north and,(2)Moving north straight south.Incredble speed!!!!!! _.
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Two adults witness boomerang-shaped object during a strange sequence of events My wife and I were headed home after eating dinner at our friends' home. There are two ways to go home, the short way and the long way. The long way is only about three minutes longer, but 99 percent of the time, we take the short way.
My wife was driving and for some reason when we came to the point where we could chose between the short and long way, I told her, "take a left, let's go the back(long) way home." Right before we took that left turn, I noticed a small single-engine plane flying S/SE at around 500 to 700 feet. I could easily see its red and green lights.
Bessemer Municipal Airport is about six miles NW of this location. This airplane looked like it may have departed from Bessemer due to its altitude. We continued to drive the long way home and I thought to myself, "why did I tell her to go this way?" and "I hope she didn't mind me telling her to go this way.
" We turned right at Highway 58, going west in Helena when I clearly noticed this big object in the sky with three white lights, the center light being the brightest of the three. I could see the grayish outline of a boomerang shape, with the bright light in the center and the left and right white lights on the edges of the "wings" of the object. For some reason I nonchalantly pointed to it and said, "see, things like that.
" I don't know why I said that. We had not been talking about seeing strange things. It was like the whole reason why we went the long way home was to see this thing.
When she saw what I was seeing, she stopped the car and asked, "what is that?" and "it's not moving." It wasn't moving. It looked like it was stationary in the sky.
The object was about 35 degrees, NW of our location at a range of about 1 mile and an altitude of anywhere from 1000 to 5000 feet depending on the size of this thing. It was "pointed" in the direction of SE and none of the lights were blinking. The pure-white aspects of the lights on this thing really stand out in my memory of seeing it.
The center light was as bright as Venus is currently in the evening, and I recall seeing this object and Venus at the same time, with Venus to the left and higher up in the sky, maybe five degrees away. At an arm's length, the boomerang-shaped object was about 1-1/2 inches wide and 1/4 inch tall. A car was coming up behind us so we had to start moving down the road.
As we did, I kept my eye fixed on the object. Intermittently, trees would pass and block the view that I had of the object, but it was still there. We came to Highway 17 and instead of turning left to go home, my wife turned right to get a better view of this object.
My view was blocked by a gas station and the bright flourescent lights of the outside of the gas station. When my view was clear again, the object was gone. We continued to drive north on this road.
Oddly enough, there was a vehicle off the road and in the ditch on the side of the road with its headlights on, but we didn't see anyone in it. This distracted us briefly, but it didn't seem to be a serious accident. We continued to drive and we saw what appeared to be the object again, but now it was way to the north, about 5-7 miles away, much higher in the sky and what appeared to be headed to the north.
It was now moving away from us quickly and we soon lost sight of it over the northern horizon(toward Birmingham). We drove through a subdivision on our way back home, driving slowly to see if we could notice the object once more, but we never saw it again. We circled around by the forementioned gas station and saw where a police cruiser was arriving on the scene where the vehicle was in the ditch.
We made it home about 90 seconds later where we discussed what we just saw. These questions remain: What did we see? How did it move so far away, changing directions and altitude so quickly? What made us go home that way? Why did I say what I said when I saw the object? Did the driver of the vehicle in the ditch see this thing, thus distracting the driver to cause the accident? I guess we will never know that. Maybe I am over-thinking this whole thing, but my wife and I know that we saw a large boomerang thing with three lights floating stationary over Helena, AL for at least 10 seconds that night.
Weather at the time: skies were clear, the air temperature was in the 50's(F) and there was a light northerly breeze.
Full Report Text:
At 9:45pm my wife and i was watching tv then our grandmothers phones us and asked us if we had seen the star in the sky when we went out side we was watching what looked like a star only this was brighter and it keeped flashing and changing colors red/blue/and green so i called our local news which is fox6 news and they said they are looking in to it as quite alot of people had called in and just to let you know it is still out side as i am typing this. many thanks my email is ((e-address deleted)).com ((NUFORC Note: The facts provided suggest to us that the sighting may have been caused by a planet or twinkling star.
PD)).
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Eight adults witness fast-moving bright object fly across the sky Our neighbor, a sherriff's deputy, was showing my two year-old niece his police cruiser (lights, siren, etc.). I glanced up to see a large bright white light moving very fast.
The brightness was much greater than an Iridium flare or the ISS at a very high intrinsic brightness. The speed of this object was so much greater than any conventional aircraft or orbiting satellite. I said, "look up! look up!", and everyone did to see the object continue in a straight line completely over the horizon.
The object travelled from NW to ESE, and was visible for about 10 seconds. When the object was directly overhead near 90 degree azimuth, it changed into a phosphorus-like green color, and amber "sparks" appeared to emit from the object, along with a slight, short-lived vapor trail. The object maintained its incredible speed and straight direction.
The object never broke apart, no sounds were heard, so subsequent sonic boom. The object should have been visible over east-central Alabama and west-central Georgia as it continued its course. The eight adults who were present discussed the object for a while.
We decided that if the object were a meteor, then it would have disintegrated to some degree while visible to us. Other logical explanations include the re-entry of a decaying satellite, booster rocket or some large mass of space junk coming back into our atmosphere. Weather conditions at the time: 72 degrees F, humidity 72 percent, dewpoint 68 degrees, wind calm, visibility 10 miles, skies were clear.
Helena, 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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Circle | 2 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Light | 2 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Helena, 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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June | 2 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
September | 2 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Helena, 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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Monday | 2 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Friday | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Thursday | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Helena, 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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06/23/01 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
12/12/01 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
05/03/04 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
01/02/05 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
06/04/13 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Helena, 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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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 5 reported sightings | 62.50% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 3 reported sightings | 37.50% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Helena, Alabama
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Helena, Alabama.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2018 | 1 UFO Reports | Helena, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2018 |
2017 | 1 UFO Reports | Helena, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2017 |
2014 | 1 UFO Reports | Helena, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2014 |
2013 | 1 UFO Reports | Helena, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2013 |
2005 | 1 UFO Reports | Helena, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2005 |
2004 | 1 UFO Reports | Helena, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2004 |
2001 | 2 UFO Reports | Helena, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2001 |
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