Eight UFOs were reported in Alabama during month of August 2014

Two UFOs photographed on Aug. 10 near Mt. Cheaha.

It’s the last week of the month, so this week I’m giving you an update on UFO reports in Alabama from the previous month, courtesy of the Mutual UFO Network.

A search for UFO reports in Alabama between Aug. 1 and Aug. 31 on MUFON’s website, www.mufon.com, resulted in eight reports from within our state during that time.

The first incident occurred on Sun., Aug. 3, around 9:25 p.m. in Hanceville in Cullman County. The witness in this case was an amateur astronomer who was looking at the moon through a telescope when he noticed an unusual light near the upper portion of the moon. He watched the light grow brighter and then two more lights appeared on the lower right portion of the moon, where it was dark.

The witness said the lights were oblong-shaped, appeared to come out of a shaft or tube and pointed in different directions. The witness, who called the lights “very weird and unsettling,” said he’d seen a lot of things in the night sky before but had no explanation for these unusual lights.

The second incident occurred during the daylight hours on Mon., Aug. 4, in Fort Payne in DeKalb County. The witness in this case was taking pictures of the clouds overhead and when he downloaded his pictures he noticed something unusual. In three of the photos, you could see a round, black object that appeared to be hovering inside one of the clouds.

The third incident occurred during the day on Sun., Aug. 10, in Munford in Talladega County. The witness in this case was standing at the end of the Pulpit Rock Trail at Cheaha State Park and was taking pictures of the mountain slope topped by the Cheaha Mountain Restaurant. Suddenly and without warning, he saw two, “fuzzy-looking disks, flitting around in the sky” over the restaurant.

Both objects eventually “streaked away to the north at incredible velocity.” The objects were gray, made no noise and appeared to fly in a pattern as if searching for something. The witness said he was “amazed and stunned” to see such a thing.

The fourth incident occurred on Mon., Aug. 18, around 6:14 a.m. in Rainbow City in Etowah County. The witness in this case was looking east in the direction of Gadsden when he saw a “black, orb-like thing floating up towards the south.” At first he thought it was a balloon, but as he watched, it’s shape changed.

“It went from the orb shape to a flat shape,” the witness said. The object traveled slower than a plane, but was fast “like a helicopter searching for something.” The object then began to hover over something to the southeast, and after a few minutes, it flew north and began to hover once more. As a storm approached, the object was absorbed by the cloud cover and it completely disappeared after five to 10 minutes.

The fifth incident occurred later that same day, around 10:30 p.m., near Russellville in Franklin County. The witness in this case was driving south on U.S. Highway 43 when he saw a sudden series of green and blue flashes to the southeast. As the witness slowed down, he watched as the clouds began to glow “with lights that seemed to be scanning outward.”

As he continued to watch, he saw an object descend beneath the clouds, and the object radiated two beams of “circular, maybe slightly oval, lights in two parallel lines.” The witness said the “light show” continued for sometime before the object flew away to the southeast. Five or 10 minutes later, as the witness began to enter Russellville on Highway 43, the strange object reappeared in the sky, but disappeared a short time later.

The sixth incident occurred on Thurs., Aug. 21, around 8:30 p.m. in Florence in Lauderdale County. The witnesses in this case saw two separate lights that looked like stars, but moved rapidly across the sky and in different directions before fading from view. At first, the witnesses thought the objects were shooting stars, but ruled this out because they were visible for far too long and moved too far across the night sky in a short amount of time. The reporting witness said the sighting made him “nervous” and that the incident “was just eerie.”

The seventh incident occurred on Fri., Aug. 22, around 3:30 a.m. in Killen in Lauderdale County. The witness in this case was standing outside smoking when he looked to the south and saw a flash of light. The light started out about the size of a star, but as he watched it brightened and grew to “about the size of a dime fully extended at arm’s reach.” The light then shrank back to its original size, went black and disappeared.

Less than 10 seconds later, the star-sized light reappeared further to the east. He watched as it brightened and “lit up the sky, like a burst of light” before disappearing once more. The witness in this case also reported feeling nervous, scared and excited, and goose bumps broke out all over his body, he said.

The eighth incident occurred on Thurs., Aug. 28, around 8:45 p.m. in Homewood in Jefferson County. The witness in this case reported seeing a “solid, bright, white, circular-shaped object” move silently across the sky over a five-minute period. The witness watched as it flew down to the level of nearby power lines, and faded to black “as if it had a dimmer switch and slowly turned it down.”

Before closing out this week, I just want to put it out there again that I would be very interested to hear from anyone who have witnessed a UFO, especially in Conecuh County. I think a lot of other people would be interested in hearing your story too, and I’m willing to accept your report anonymously. You can contact me by e-mail at courantsports@earthlink.net or by phone at 578-1492.