CaseSphere1999

Birmingham, AL, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Birmingham, AL, USA
Start: 1999-12-05
Location: Birmingham, AL, USA

HUGE BALL OF LIGHT, FALLING DIAGNOL, THROUGH THE CLOUDS. LIT UP THE SKY AS IF IMMEDIATELY DAYLIGHT. APPEARING TO MAKE IMPACT SEVERAL MI

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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Duration parsed: 5s, a plausible sighting length
Detailed witness text (135 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1999-12-05
Where: Birmingham, AL, USA
Shape: Sphere
Duration: 5SEC
Geo: 33.521, -86.802 · exact
Slug: sphere-over-birmingham-al-1999-53fc41

In context

One of 79 documented reports from Birmingham, AL in the UFOMYST archive.
Alabama logged 31 sightings in 1999.
Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.5%).

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