Two UFO reports filed in Alabama during the month of October 2020

It’s the second Thursday 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 Oct. 1 and Oct. 31 on MUFON’s website, www.mufon.com, resulted in two reports from within our state during that time.

The first incident occurred on Tues., Oct. 6, at 7:30 a.m. in Florence, which is in Lauderdale County in the northwest corner of the state near Alabama’s borders with Tennessee and Mississippi. The witness in this case runs the YouTube channel, Terry’s Theories UFO Sightings (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtPEOm9TEq05rnECm78fhMg), and used a Nikon P1000 camera to record a suspected UFO. This witness had a 3,000-mm zoom lens attached to his camera and was focused on the sun, looking for UFOs to put on his YouTube channel.

When he reviewed the footage, he saw that he recorded what looked like a diamond-shaped craft near the sun. “You can see when you view this object that the flow of the asteroids are going one way, and this object is traveling at a different speed and direction,” the witness said. “I was amazed when I saw this.”

If you’d like to see this video for yourself, just go to YouTube and look up Terry’s Theories UFO Sightings.

The second incident occurred on Sat., Oct. 17, at 7:25 p.m. in Troy, which is in Pike County, northeast of Conecuh County. The witness in this case reported seeing a tightly-packed cluster of 50 to 100 dimly lit objects flying southeast on a steady course and speed in a V-shaped formation. The witness said that the objects may have been illuminated by the rays of the setting sun.

The witness went on to say that this cluster of unknown objects crossed the entire sky in about two minutes. The witness said that this cluster was about twice as wide as the moon and appeared to be at a very high altitude. He noted that the cluster was too dim to record video of it on his cell phone.

According to the Farmer’s Almanac, except for Mercury in the predawn east, all of the planets will fade a bit during the month of November. Venus will sink lower each morning, but is still visible before dawn. The crescent moon will be visible between Mercury and Venus tomorrow (Friday) night and below those two planets on Saturday night.

For those of you with an unobstructed view of the eastern horizon, Venus will be visible above Mercury through next Wednesday, about 40 minutes before sunrise. When evening dusk fades, Jupiter continues its steady march towards Saturn, with the pair now visible only in the first few hours of each night. The moon floats new Jupiter and Saturn this coming Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 18-19.

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 has 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 courantnewsdesk@gmail.com.