Only one UFO was reported in Alabama during the month of December 2017

It’s the third 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 Dec. 1 and Dec. 1 on MUFON’s website, www.mufon.com, resulted in only one report from within our state during that time.

That incident occurred on Sat., Dec. 9, around 5:05 p.m. in Alabaster, which is in Shelby County, south of Birmingham. The witness in this case said that for two or three minutes he watched a strange object travel straight across the sky from the southwest towards the southeast. Around this same time, he saw a pair of airplanes, including a small two-seater plane in the same area as the same object.

The witness described the strange object as square-shaped with what looked like a small domed parachute attached to its four corners. He also noted that the object was emitting a light that looked like a flame with “sharp” rays of light emitting from around the light source. He went on to say that there was a reddish orange object on top of the box-shaped object beneath the parachute.

He reported that this unusual object stayed on its path until it disappeared out of sight behind some trees in the distance. He noted that there is a small municipal airport in the direction that it was traveling and that there is a weather service office located at the airport. The witness also mentioned that the object emitted no noise and left no type of visible trail in its wake.

“The more I think about it the stranger it seems,” the witness said. “There was never any noises, contrails or smells.”

The witness closed out his report by saying that he’d seen two other strange things in the sky within the past three years the same general area.

While we’re on the subject of strange objects in the sky, according to my trusty “Farmer’s Almanac,” this year’s only eclipse for North America will be a total lunar eclipse when the moon passes into the Earth’s shadow just before dawn on Wed., Jan. 31. Where we live, the eclipse won’t be total, but it’s total phase can be seen west of the Mississippi and from western Canada.

Jan. 31 will also mark the second full moon of the calendar month, which is known as a blue moon. On average, blue moons occurred about once ever 2.7 years. So if you hear someone on the street say “once in a blue moon,” you’ll have a better idea of what this really means.

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.