It’s the fourth Saturday of the month, so today I’m giving you an update on UFO reports in Alabama from the past month, courtesy of the Mutual UFO Network.A search for UFO reports in Alabama between Sept. 1 and Sept. 30 on MUFON’s website, www.mufon.com, resulted in two UFO incidents from within our state.
The first incident occurred on Sat., Sept. 24, and was reported to MUFON that same day.
“I happened to look up and see this gray object, moving at a very high velocity,” the witness said. “It crossed the entire sky in just seven seconds, and I could tell it was extremely high in the atmosphere.”
The second incident occurred around 7:30 p.m. on Sun., Sept. 25, and was reported on the following day. According to the witness, they were fishing on the Gulf State Park Pier when they saw what they described as an “orb” or “fireball” of green light “streak across the sky.”
“I thought maybe it was a small aircraft and was going to fall into the ocean,” the witness reported. “But before it got to the water, it just burnt out. I probably watched it for about five seconds.”
Before I wrap this thing up, I want to mention that a reader sent me an e-mail a week ago to tell me about a UFO experience he had in Conecuh County. He couldn’t remember the exact year, only that the incident took place one night some time between 1979 and 1982.
The witness, who asked not to be named, described the UFO as a “ball of yellowish-white light perhaps 30 feet in diameter at a treetop altitude of about 200 feet. It made no sound, and the light varied in intensity with its speed – dull when slow, bright when fast.
“Myself and a friend were able to get very close to it, and it flew almost directly over our heads. When we first saw it, it was moving slow, perhaps 30 miles per hour. As we got closer, it slowed when almost overhead and dimmed completely out as it appeared to come to a stop. About five seconds later, it began moving, brightened up and sped up to perhaps 100 miles per hour.”
The object then appeared to increase its speed and “shot up into the sky at about a 45 degree angle and disappeared in a streak of light. The whole incident lasted about 10 minutes, from the time we first saw it to when it disappeared.”
The witness said that the “only sound it made was the sound of something moving through the air as it sped away” and that it reminded him of the time when he was in his yard and a hawk swooped down behind him to pick off a sparrow a few yards away.
“Imagine the sound of a hawk moving through the air on its dive but magnify it by a factor of 10 and you have some idea.”
After the event, the witness and his friend rarely spoke about the incident. The witness described it “one of those odd events that happen in life, but it was nothing we fretted over. Several years later, my friend passed away.”
“The UFO was odd enough, but the really odd thing about the incident was we were having a party at the time and perhaps 20 people were there. I saw it coming towards us and silently walked away from the crowd towards it to get a better view. It wasn’t until I was well across the yard before I even noticed my friend was walking behind me and watching it too. No one else even noticed it and when we returned to the party, no one had even noticed we had been gone.”
In the end, I’d be very interested to hear from any readers who have witnessed a UFO. I think a lot of other people would be interested in hearing your story too, and I’d be willing to accept your report on an anonymous basis if you’d be more comfortable with that arrangement. You can contact me by e-mail at courantsports@earthlink.net or by phone at 578-1492.
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