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Tuscaloosa, Alabama UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 25 UFO sighting reports in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "circle" (4 reports, 16.00% of total).
- April is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 16.00% of total).
- Monday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (7 reports, 28.00% of total).
- 2017 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 12.00% of total).
- 04/14/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 4.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (11 reports, 44.00% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
These Tuscaloosa, 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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I have physical pictures of proof There where 3 bright light circular flying in a triangle format shape with one light in front which flew over and they changed formation but stay in a triangle as I follow trying to take pictures they disappeared then reappeared behind me in the same formation and disappeared again I took several pictures wasn't able to record.
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I was sitting in my car playing poker on my phone when the reception went out. I got out of the car to move the phone around and a glowing light caught my attention in the sky. When i first seen it it sent an overwhelming feeling through my body and it made me cry.
I couldn't stop looking at it. Then it started to glow brighter than any star it the sky . Then it disappeared for 5 seconds and reappeared growing brighter each time.
It started to scare me so i called my neighbor over just to make sure i wasn't crazy. And he said he never seen nothing like it.
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I was driving east on Jack Warner Pkwy, between Manderson Landing and the freshman dorms of the Univeristy of Alabama. I looked up to the southeast and saw a large object hovering a few hundred feet up in the sky. It appeared to be over the North Lawn Hall area or Hackberry Lane on campus.
It was white with silver trim. Too big to be a drone, no wings or exhaust visible. Bigger than a small plane.
It wasn't exactly round, more of a fat, short teardrop shape. I looked back at the road for a few seconds and I thought "what the hell is that?". I looked back up and the object was still there in the same spot.
I kept my eyes on it until I started passing trees that blocked my view and when I turned right on North Campus Way to be able to see it again, the object was gone. It was right after 12 noon. The sky was clear blue with no clouds.
There was no trail left or disturbance. It was just gone.
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I noticed a ball of light out of my window right above the tree line. It was glowing orange. I watched for a few minutes then the light seemed to be going farther away and turning into a small point of white light, it looked like a regular star.
After a few minutes the light would seem to come closer again and glow bright orange. This happened several times. There was no sound coming from this object.
The movement from this object was smooth, not jerky. It did move across the tree line slowly, but the moving in and out, far away, and then close was strange.
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Disk hovered, no movement until it surrounded itself with a bright pink light. After the disc emitted the pink light, the craft rose a short distance and stopped for several seconds. Then, the craft rose vertically, quickly, and disappeared.
This disk was round, silver colored, and did not change color or shape. It was located approximately a few hundred feet above ground. The clouds near the UFO reflected the pink color for approximately 30 seconds after the craft left.
No visible openings or wings observed.
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The ufo has been hovering over a field across the street from my house every evening for 3 nights straight. it is chevron shaped, pulsating from green, red, white, and blue. Normally I would assume it is a star, however this object is changing location by roughly 3-400 yards every night.
Please contact me.
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Light seen circling above Tuscaloosa's University of Alabama Quad I was sitting in the grass in middle of the quad at the University of Alabama at about 1:30AM, enjoying the peacefulness. A young man approached me and asked if I saw the object quickly circling above us in the sky. After a a minute, I spotted a slightly translucent shape against the dark sky.
I could not determine the color, though the other witness said it was green. It moved in a circular pattern at high speed. As far as we could tell, its height above the ground was slightly higher or equal to the height of Denny Chimes Tower, 115 feet.
After a few minutes, as I trained my eyes to follow the shape as it moved, I thought that it was bobbing up and down a little as it moved, much in the same way as a bird flaps its wings. The other witness talked about recent social media reports at the Quad about sightings of Mothman, but I have not seen these reports. I speculated whether it was search lights to warn aircraft of their low altitudes, or water from the sprinklers refracting off the street lights in the clouds.
After several sprinklers turned off, the object was still there circling. The other witness approached 2 girls to ask if they saw it, and they did. We also asked a man passing by if he saw the object, bringing witness count to 5.
He watched the rotations of the light as it circled, to figure out its speed and concluded it must a strobe light of some kind. When this 5th witness left, we lost sight of the circling object.
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I was driving down university blv when out of nowhere i see a light bit light in the sky that no plane could have make it went straight down like the light fron god xomeing from the heavens the police sat there Nd watched it .i tryed to get it on video but by the time i got to my phone it was dead… ((NUFORC Note: Source of report indicates that the date is approximate. PD)).
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Device without a sound, flying completely in a perpendicular move to the sky. Saw a device with 3 blinking lights that didn't make any sound. It flew perpendicularly to the sky very slowly and then gain speed and disappeared, always in a perpendicular move towards the sky.
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Observed a flying dart. I witnessed a very high altitude vehicle, best description a dart. I was viewing the Moon when the craft passed between my vantage point, Moon was in the southwestern sky, the object was at approximately 70,000 feet moving southeast to northwest.
It had a clearly definable contrail behind it approximately 1000 feet in length. The color was reflecting the setting sun and glistened. It took the object less than 5 seconds to clear my vantage point.
This was not a commercial airliner and there are not many military vehicles that can fly at that altitude. No sound. ((NUFORC Note: We spoke with the witness via telephone, and he sounded to us to be quite serious-minded, and sincere about his report.
PD)).
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Black orb spotted over Interstate 20/59. Heading down interstate 20/59, I looked up and spotted what appeared to be a large black orb drifting overhead. It had a single red light on the bottom of it, seeming to take up 1/3rd of its shape.
It moved at a steady pace but was not incredibly fast. It drifted across the road and disappeared beyond the trees.
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White/green object much larger than "shooting star" NW to SE on 9/9/13@8:20 CST. At 8:20 pm CST on 9/9/2013 I saw a large object streak from a 12:00 position to the horizon in a NW to SE direction. I was much larger than a “Shooting Star”, it was white /green as it streaked across the segment of the horizon that I was able to observe.
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I have seen an orange, slow-moving, smokeless fireball moving through the sky above the University of Alabama. While in orchestra rehearsal, my friend and I noticed an abnormally slow moving fireball moving leisurely through the sky while looking out the window. It was orange and slow moving, with no smoke and a very short trail.
It was much larger than any aircraft I have ever seen. It moved slowly from one corner of the window to another. I thought nothing of it, that it was possibly a meteor, until reading reports recently that describe exactly what I have seen.
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block dot black dot flying straight course, no sound, no smoke trail. military aircraft in same area soon after sighting.
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At least 7 high speed lights seen over Tuscaloosa/Hillcrest, AL I went outside to have a cigarette on my balcony (which faces east south east) and saw strange lights moving in a pattern which no airplane could. I counted at least 7 but there could've been as many as 12. The lights would come and go like fire-flys.
It looked like bee's swarming around a nest. They were all moving at incredibly high speed doing loops and rolls, but not like an airplane could. All the turns were incredibly tight.
It's been about thirty minutes and its still going on. I wish I had a camera.
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bright blue sphere hovering for over 20 seconds before bolting i was outside smoking a cigar when i looked in the sky to see a circular bright blue light hovering at what looked like to be airplane levels. it was stationary with a pulsing light for over 20 seconds before it bolted into disappearance. never seen this before, quite peculiar.
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large blue bullet shaped object crossing sky of tuscaloosa alabama bullet shaped object.blue.not shooting star.
way too big.heading east to west.2 seconds to reach across sky(maybe less).
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Trapezoid shaped hovering craft with dark red flashing lights moved side to side directly above me. This was my second sighting. I was smoking a cigarette listening to my Ipod in my driveway early one morning when i started to wave my hand over the light to create a slow strobe pattern.
After a couple of minutes i took my headphones off and looked at the sky. I didn't hear or see anything come near me, but I looked up and saw a trapezoid shaped craft hovering silently about 75-100 feet above me. The outline of the craft was a flashing red line that was the shape of a trapezoid, two equal sides then the front of the craft was shorter than the bottom.
It moved from side to side in a kind of sporadic movement, I was frozen stiff scared and stood there for about 20 seconds staring at it then cautiously waved at it, it then changed to a red and white light pattern and hovered away towards the moon behind my house. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. PD)).
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Egg shaped flashing silent craft flew in front of the moon and 5 more over my house. I was at a friend's house this past march and was leaving to my house which was a few blocks away. I walked outside and noticed a red, green, blue and white strobe like flash a few hundred feet off the ground to my left as soon as i walked into his driveway.
I stood still afraid I was going to miss something as it flew in front of the moon where i saw what looked like an egg or almond shape with a solid thin line of exhaust that disappeared a couple hundred feet behind it. The top half of the craft appeared to be a light grid that flashed a spectrum of colors like I had never seen before. After it passed I ran and grabbed my friend, he saw it but it was too far away to tell what it was.
I went home and saw 2 dim yellowish lights in the distance at about 4:15 A.M. I ran inside and grabbed my mother out of bed and over the course of about 15 mins 5 crafts flew over us.
First 2, then 2 more, then 1 about 5 minutes apart from each other. The last one that passed over our driveway made a sound like I had never heard before, like a call or a signal. I believe it acknowledged that we were seeing it.
It did the same call twice which sounded like a hawk's call mixed with a whistling bottle rocket, but it sounded digital. Like eeeyyyeeerrr eeeee. My mother and I still don't know what we saw but it would prove to be the first in a series of sightings that still continues.
I contacted the local FBI office but I felt like I wasn't being taken seriously. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
It was round, silent,illuminated pale white, and it moved, from where it wasn't suppose to be. It was a typical mid-summer evening in West Central Alabama. The sky was crystal clear and full of stars.
The temperature was in the mid seventies and the wind was calm. I live beyond the distraction of city lights and sounds and in the midst of near dead silence and a glorious view overhead,I swear I was a witness to the following; It was around 10:45 PM when I began preparing to retire for the evening. My wife and Miniature Dachshund had gone to bed about an hour before.
My routine includes checking door locks,night lights,oven settings,candles,etc.This also includes a walk through our covered patio area out back where we often spend quiet time outdoors most summer evenings,weather and mosquitos permitting.We have a TV,a fan,candles and other items we enjoy out there just like any other room of our home.
As usual,I went out to secure the patio.I stepped out onto our uncovered,attached patio where I began to take a big stretch and yawn before heading back in to the bedroom.My stretching motion shifted my head backwards and up toward the sky and.
there it was! In the sky directly above me,was a perfectly round,silent and still object slightly smaller than the full moons we have here,and not quite as bright,but similar in color.I knew from it's position in the sky however that it definately WAS NOT the moon!Our moon starts out in the eastern sky and moves east to west across the sky on the southern side of our house,regardless of the time of year,and is viewable ONLY from an area some fifty feet north of where I was standing! My eyes remained fixed on the object for about 10 seconds or less,at which time it very slowly moved off to the west/northwest,and faded away into the clear night sky. It's distance away from me when I first saw it was impossible to judge.
I can only base it's size on the only object similar to it,the moon.When it began to slowly move away,it moved a distance of about one and a half to two times it's own size before fading out of sight,never making a sound of any kind.And as usual,you could have heard the hum of a mosquito's wings that night.
I have waited this long to report my experience because I felt then,and still believe this was a sign from God,to let me know he has heard my prayers. I am of sound mind.Alchohol,drugs or any mental shortcomings simply does not figure in to this event in any way.
But it was.unidentifiable. Am I the only one that saw this? Has anyone ever seen this before? I really would like to know.
Thank You.
Tuscaloosa, 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 | 4 reported sightings | 16.00% of all reports |
Other | 4 reported sightings | 16.00% of all reports |
Light | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Fireball | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Unknown | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Tuscaloosa, 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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April | 4 reported sightings | 16.00% of all reports |
July | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
March | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
November | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
February | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
June | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
September | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Tuscaloosa, 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 | 7 reported sightings | 28.00% of all reports |
Wednesday | 5 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Friday | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Tuesday | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Sunday | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Thursday | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Tuscaloosa, 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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04/14/20 | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
10/29/99 | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
10/27/11 | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
01/05/20 | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
03/22/00 | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Tuscaloosa, 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 | 11 reported sightings | 44.00% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 6 reported sightings | 24.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2021 | 1 UFO Reports | Tuscaloosa, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2021 |
2020 | 2 UFO Reports | Tuscaloosa, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2020 |
2018 | 2 UFO Reports | Tuscaloosa, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2018 |
2017 | 3 UFO Reports | Tuscaloosa, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2017 |
2014 | 3 UFO Reports | Tuscaloosa, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2014 |
2013 | 2 UFO Reports | Tuscaloosa, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2013 |
2011 | 1 UFO Reports | Tuscaloosa, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2011 |
2009 | 2 UFO Reports | Tuscaloosa, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2009 |
2008 | 3 UFO Reports | Tuscaloosa, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2008 |
2005 | 1 UFO Reports | Tuscaloosa, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2005 |
2004 | 1 UFO Reports | Tuscaloosa, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2004 |
2003 | 1 UFO Reports | Tuscaloosa, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2003 |
2000 | 1 UFO Reports | Tuscaloosa, Alabama UFO Sightings in 2000 |
1999 | 1 UFO Reports | Tuscaloosa, Alabama UFO Sightings in 1999 |
1996 | 1 UFO Reports | Tuscaloosa, Alabama UFO Sightings in 1996 |
All Alabama Cities with UFO Sightings
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Alabama