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Huntsville, Alabama UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 88 UFO sighting reports in Huntsville, Alabama to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (21 reports, 23.86% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (14 reports, 15.91% of total).
- Tuesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (16 reports, 18.18% of total).
- 2013 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (8 reports, 9.09% of total).
- 06/01/84 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 2.27% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (38 reports, 43.18% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Huntsville, Alabama
These Huntsville, 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).
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3 orbs of light in the sky over downtown Out with friends at Bar Vista at the AC Hotel- downtown Huntsville, AL- took a picture from the bar patio on the 2nd floor. Took the picture toward the west.
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On April 23, 2023 I was on a welding contract with Polaris which is located in Huntsville, Alabama. The room I was staying was about 20 miles west of the Polaris plant in Huntsville, Alabama. I was outside my room door smoking a cigarette when I noticed up in the sky what appeared to me at the time a airplane ascending, however in mid ascension the craft stopped and hovered , I ran back in my room and got my cellphone and started recording.
While the craft was ascending it had different colored light, a really bright green, a very bright red a bright white light. The craft reversed direction and.
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Multiple lights around the southern sky moving randomly. On March 14th, I sent a report about seeing lights in the southern sky south of Huntsville Alabama. Since then, I have gone out in my back yard and checked the sky for more lights moving randomly in the sky.
Every night since then, cloud cover permitting, I have seen the lights. The sky in that direction is unlit. I have seen anywhere from 2 or 3 to as many as 8.
These lights are spaced from the west to the east around Huntsville. Some of the lights are brighter than others and others are smaller. In watching, they move randomly in a general area they occupy.
At times they move rapidly and other times they seem to hover or move slowly. There seems to be no pattern to the movements. During times of slow moving broken clouds, the lights when covered by the clouds, seem to move to the nearest opening in the clouds.
On a few occasions, there appears to be a small light suspended below the main light. Last night, March 27th 2023, while observing the lights, one of them began traveling to the east from a southerly position and at the same time one in the eastern sky began traveling west to a southerly position. The east bound light eventually disappeared in the east and the west bound light settled into a position approximately where the east bound light started from.
Both lights traveled quite a distance at a moderate speed making random movements. All the lights I have seen since March 14th do the same thing every night, moving randomly, in all directions, at times darting to a spot. I have seen these lights in the evening and in the early morning hours prior to the sun coming up.
On two occasions I had my wife come out to observe just to make sure I was not seeing things and she too observed the lights moving around in the sky.
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Light moving erratically, accelerating rapidly and stopping on a dime. While standing in my back yard at about 8:30 PM on March 14th 2023 and looking at the stars in the southern sky, one of the stars moved. I thought maybe I was just seeing some of the clouds passing in front of the star.
I continued to watch, and the star moved again, moving side to side and up and down. I watched for a few minutes and then asked my wife to come out and see. We watched for several more minutes and the star continued its movements.
At one point, a small light extended below the light (star) and remained for a couple of minutes and then went back up to the light. The light at one point accelerated very rapidly and stopped on a dime. It then went back in the direction it came from moving erratically up and down.
Since then, I have seen the light almost every night and in the very early morning hour (3 AM) today March 20th 2023. It has appeared in the same general area of the sky each night. It appears to be higher than any cloud cover and higher than commercial high-flying aircraft that are lower than the clouds.
The light was not moving like any aircraft I have ever seen.
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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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They were silent, my friend made a video of them. March 1, 2022, Huntsville, Ala., afternoon before dark….
a friend told me to come outside and look at an object, I did and it was about 50 yards away, just above the trees. It moved to my left about 50 yards and stopped. This object looked about the size of a VW bug car, it was dark inside an orange ball shape light.
As I watched this, another one, looking the same flew up to this one, they were about three houses away. Then one went to the front of my house and I went to and out my front door to look, it was at the end of my street and not moving. This one went back, next to the other one and after about 5 min.
, they both, side by side went east till they went out of sight. This was seen for about 30 min. The dark part inside the orange ball had the shape of a top.
My friend took digital video of the two objects flying side by side and they were close enough to hear any type of motor…they were silent. The reason I tell you about this is that last night, around 9 pm I saw a similar sight…first one then a couple of mins. behind another one.
These were going in the same direction but higher up and about a thousand ft. away, close enough to hear yet again…silent. To let you know, I see all manner of flying craft daily and nightly yet these are the only craft to fly silently seen to date.
Thanks for your time.
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At a glance it looked like a star then I felt a burning sensation and zoomed video and noticed the pulsing or thrusting. I was on post at Raytheon Gate Redstone Arsenal had been watching it rather shacken the patrol guard came through gate around 8pm 1/29/22 and I pointed out to him as well (Brandon). I honestly felt a burning sick vertigo feeling.
Brandon got out just for a couple of minutes got back I'm patrol vehicle and I'm going to get inside. Im sure Inoticed this while coming into Huntsville on 72. I have included video of the the sitting Saturday 1/29/22 same general area around 5:45am.
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An unorganized cluster of amber colored lights moving East to West. Me and my father were driving south from Hazel Green, Alabama towards Huntsville, Alabama around 6:45 P.M central time.
I looked out of the passenger window of my father’s truck and I noticed a cluster of amber colored lights that were unorganized in their grouping. Whether it was one object or seprate objects grouped together I am unsure. The cluster moved from east to west.
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drone launching pyrotechnics Earlier this evening at around 8:45PM-9:15PM local time I witnessed some type of drone craft over Redstone Arsenal visible from a neighborhood just Northeast of Gate 10. It had lights and flashers consistent with FAA regulations. The craft slowed to a hover and after a couple minutes it delivered a payload of what seemed to be short-burst comet-type effects that lasted 8-10 seconds with 8 or 9 projectiles that launched out and then back toward the vessel in a circular arc.
After the initial display the drone returned back southeast, was presumably reloaded and then delivered the same payload to the same location albeit slightly closer to my location about 10-12 minutes later. I dunno if they are working on some type of pyro display for a corporate retreat or 4th of July celebration, but it was pretty darn cool-looking for the small effect as it was. If a bunch of these were synced up to a timed show and launched closer to the audience radius I could see it h! aving a nice affect in conjunction with a traditional pyro display.
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Saw a teal light , thought it was lightening at first but the teal color was solid and stayed there for a few seconds and blinked a few times. Reached for my phone to record it, it disappeared with no traces . It wasn’t a power outage.
The teal light was a distance away but very large .
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A flying object was seen traveling SW slowly in a straight line. The object had one red and two green flashing lights. The object instantly stopped with no deceleration and hovered for a few seconds and then sped off in the opposite direction towards the east again traveling in a straight line.
It quickly stopped again for a few seconds and hovered again before speeding away at about a 45° angle into the clouds.
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Two white point sources of light (one and then another) rose straight up from NW horizon and slowly faded in brightness while veering off to the NE.
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Saw 1 bright light that dimmed out & got really bright in an erratic manner, the movement was unlike a plane or anything Ive ever seen I saw this right after it rained and the sun came out bright and sunny with pretty much a clear sky. Our city experienced a double rainbow and of course everyone was looking at it and took to social media (I say this because I might not be the only one who saw it but idk). But that's when I noticed a single, VERY bright light that was small (my first initial thought was a plane or maybe a satellite).
You could tell it was far away. It stuck out like a sore thumb. The brightness of the light was different and that's when I decided to watch it because I've never seen something like this.
From my perspective, it started to moved towards the rainbow. It wasn't moving erratically and not necessarily in a straight line, but instead in a smooth fluid motion regardless if it was gaining or losing altitude. And it was moving fast considering how far away it was.
It's nowhere as fast as a shooting star but it was definitely way too fast to be a plane. Once it got to t! he rainbow, it stopped and sat motionless for maybe a minute or two. It then started to move back in the same direction it came from.
Definitely never seen a plane do that. This whole time while I'm watching this light, the light was going in and out. Not flashing in and out, more like dimming.
It wasn't sequential or in a pattern, you couldn't time it. It was completely random. Sometimes it would vanish for a split second up to a few seconds.
And sometimes the light got brighter all the way up to an obnoxious bright. This went on for about 15 to 20 until I lost sight due to the tree line. A few moments later, I saw AN ACTUAL PLANE in the same general area as I just saw the light.
The plane was very visible and I could easily make out the main components of it, as well as seeing and identifying the familiar flashing lights in perfect unison that all planes have. That's when I realized what I just saw a moment ago was 100% different, no doubt about it.
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I saw what looked like a ball of fire. It was moving faster than an airplane. As it got closer to the fireworks it went black.
I watched it Move across the sky. I lost sight of it as it went into a cloud. Then about three minutes later I saw another one.
I have photos of the fireball and after it turned black I also have a photo.
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spotted flying object with flashing bright white light,then stopped remained there and desend downward On Wednesday January 22nd around 4:45 pm I was traveling south on Memorial Parkway,when I noticed a bright white light object in the sky heading in my direction. It proceeded to pass over the area that I was near. Shortly afterwards I stopped at a local grocery store, while there in the parking lot I could still see the brightly lite object north of me.
I noticed it was not moving but remained in a stationary position in the sky. I appoached a couple of people in the parking lot and pointed out the object to them ,they both thought it was curious. I then went into the store to get some groceries.
When I was finished shopping I went back out to the parking lot to my car,where I noticed the object was still there in the same position. As I was putting my groceries into my car ,it started to move toward my direction. Then all of a sudden a flash of extreme bright white light occurred.
As this was happening, the object started to desend into the tree line, after which I could no longer see it.
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Two moving yellowish lights over Huntsville, AL at 10:30 pm on July 8, 2019. In the sky over Huntsville or Redstone Arsenal, I noticed 2 bright yellowish lights and one blinking red light and did not hear any airplane or helicopter noise. The yellowish lights appeared to be moving slowly, very close but in different directions.
After about 30 seconds they disappeared (not simultaneously, but separately). It might have been some kind of a firework trail the way they faded from view, but it took a full 30 seconds for them to disappear and neither light moved downward. After they were gone, I watched the blinking red light move toward the southwest over Redstone Arsenal toward the Huntsville Airport for an additional 30 seconds until it was obstructed from my view by a large tree.
I continued watching for 10 minutes but never saw the bright yellowish lights or the red blinking light again. If I were to guess, I would suspect either some satellite-related event or two helicopters that turned on and off their lights too far away for me to hear them. I suspect the red blinking light was a satellight.
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Large ball of light! Ball of light about the size of a basketball that darted down from the sky at an angle into the woods as I sat on my back porch. Weird thing. I know I wasn’t going crazy because my dogs saw it too! They immediately stood at attention on guard facing in that direction and wouldn’t move (almost like they were waiting for whatever they saw to make the first move).
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Pulsating ball of white light. Occurred: 04/04/19 @ 05:55A.M.
CST Reported: 04/27/19 Location: Huntsville, AL Shape: Ball of white light Duration: 3.0 seconds Sighting description: I was looking directly East at the sunrise, there is a building behind ours that blocks the horizon, so all I was seeing were the colors of the sunrise with no glare from the sun. Out of nowhere, a ball of white light descended, and then leveled off moving East, going away from me.
From my vantage point, I would say the object was about the size of a “BB” held at arm's length to the eye, for lack of a better term it was pulsating and becoming brighter, making it look somewhat larger then back to smaller. I cannot estimate its speed or altitude, but from where it first appeared, to where it finally went out of my sight behind the other building, I would say it came from an extremely high altitude. I've never seen anything like it before.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Thin, gray, wing-like object moving slowly south to north While mowing the grass, I took notice of an object moving in the partly cloudy sky. The object reminded me of a glider with a very high aspect wing ratio (I would estimate about 25:1), and was a dull gray metallic color. What I could not discern was any sign of engines, propellers, fuselage, or tail.
It was almost like a thick line, but slightly swept. It was moving slowly from south to north. I observed the object for approximately 10 seconds before it went out of view behind some trees.
It was only faintly visible due to its color, but my polarized sunglasses helped me see it better. I could not tell its altitude, but it was below the high cirrus clouds, which I estimated to be 20,000 ft based on local air traffic, but above the lower, puffy cumulus clouds. I tried and tried to see any other features, but there were none.
If it was a glider (I have seen plenty of those) or even a predator drone (we live near the Redstone Arsenal), its fuselage would have been visible, but was not. Based on my observation, I would place the wing span somewhere around 300 ft, tip to tip. I have attached a rendering of the object I saw to a separate email.
((NUFORC Note: Witness shares a high-quality computer-generated illustration of what he witnessed. PD)).
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Green Light/Orb in Northwestern Sky in Huntsville, Alabama. My wife and I were driving west on I-565. I glanced towards the northwest and saw a green light/orb studded then rapidly shoot toward the ground.
It wasn’t at a high elevation either so I didn’t think it was a shooting star. There is a US government arsenal and a NASA branch here. However, this happened over a populated civilian area.
Huntsville, 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 | 21 reported sightings | 23.86% of all reports |
Triangle | 10 reported sightings | 11.36% of all reports |
Disk | 8 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Circle | 8 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Other | 6 reported sightings | 6.82% of all reports |
Sphere | 5 reported sightings | 5.68% of all reports |
Cigar | 4 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Fireball | 4 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Chevron | 3 reported sightings | 3.41% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 3.41% of all reports |
Orb | 3 reported sightings | 3.41% of all reports |
Unknown | 2 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 1.14% of all reports |
Cross | 1 reported sightings | 1.14% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 1.14% of all reports |
Huntsville, 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 | 14 reported sightings | 15.91% of all reports |
July | 14 reported sightings | 15.91% of all reports |
January | 8 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
November | 7 reported sightings | 7.95% of all reports |
May | 7 reported sightings | 7.95% of all reports |
April | 7 reported sightings | 7.95% of all reports |
March | 6 reported sightings | 6.82% of all reports |
December | 6 reported sightings | 6.82% of all reports |
October | 5 reported sightings | 5.68% of all reports |
September | 5 reported sightings | 5.68% of all reports |
August | 4 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
February | 4 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Huntsville, 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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Tuesday | 16 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Friday | 15 reported sightings | 17.05% of all reports |
Saturday | 15 reported sightings | 17.05% of all reports |
Monday | 14 reported sightings | 15.91% of all reports |
Wednesday | 12 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
Sunday | 9 reported sightings | 10.23% of all reports |
Thursday | 6 reported sightings | 6.82% of all reports |
Huntsville, 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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06/01/84 | 2 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
02/10/99 | 1 reported sightings | 1.14% of all reports |
05/01/14 | 1 reported sightings | 1.14% of all reports |
03/14/23 | 1 reported sightings | 1.14% of all reports |
01/05/07 | 1 reported sightings | 1.14% of all reports |
Huntsville, 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 | 38 reported sightings | 43.18% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 16 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 13 reported sightings | 14.77% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 8 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 7 reported sightings | 7.95% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 5 reported sightings | 5.68% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Huntsville, Alabama
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