UFO Sightings in Alabama
1,275 UFO sightings reported in Alabama since 1939, peaking in 2014 (130 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 1,275
- Span
- 1939–2022
- Peak year
- 2014 (130 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1939–2022 · peak 2014 (130 reports)
Top cities in Alabama
Huntsville
1961–2022 · peak 2013 (8 reports)
Birmingham
1951–2022 · peak 2006 (9 reports)
Mobile
1979–2022 · peak 2019 (8 reports)
Melbourne (Australia)
1960–2021 · peak 2007 (4 reports)
Madison
1973–2020 · peak 2007 (5 reports)
Montgomery
1962–2020 · peak 1994 (4 reports)
Dothan
2003–2022 · peak 2022 (7 reports)
Gulf Shores
1997–2022 · peak 2013 (4 reports)
Tuscaloosa
1996–2021 · peak 2008 (3 reports)
Florence
1964–2019 · peak 2015 (5 reports)
Hoover
2001–2020 · peak 2014 (4 reports)
Australia
1987–2014 · peak 2005 (3 reports)
Cullman
2000–2019 · peak 2003 (4 reports)
Gadsden
1965–2019 · peak 2007 (2 reports)
Anniston
1975–2020 · peak 2017 (4 reports)
Auburn
1972–2017 · peak 2007 (2 reports)
Orange Beach
2002–2019 · peak 2004 (3 reports)
Phenix City
2009–2020 · peak 2014 (4 reports)
Fort Payne
1973–2022 · peak 2022 (4 reports)
Gardendale
1968–2022 · peak 2008 (2 reports)
Orange Beach · AL, USA
Set of three lights floating over the Gulf of Mexico
Pelham (Valleydale exit getting onto I-65 N) · AL, USA
Objects of light, with a tail falling from the sky, then stopping mid-fall and moving independently around the area unlike an aircraft.
Ardmore · AL, USA
Saw a light that appeared to be a star, but was moving very erraticaly before shooting off directly north.
Hamilton · AL, USA
Orange Diamond shaped object
Hamilton · AL, USA
Single bright orange light, slow moving, solid flight path, no loss of altitude noticeable, no sound
Tuscaloosa · AL, USA
block dot
Jacksonville · AL, USA
white light ascends vertically
Arley · AL, USA
Glinting metallic object moving at a rapid speed
Double Springs · AL, USA
Strange bright spheres in the sky that sometimes changes colors and moves very fast and in strage directions. ((Stars?? PD))
Chelsea · AL, USA
These were all a oval dark orange colored shapes that seem to be flowing in some sequence. They appeared coming up from a mountain for
Arley · AL, USA
Light falling from sky with whooshing noise heard.
Albertville · AL, USA
Round mirror like ball slowly passing not to high in the sky
Athens (Hwy 72 W) · AL, USA
Huge, motionless, multicolored ball of light in tree lines.
Baldwin County · AL, USA
One moving white light with a smaller white light on top
Maylene · AL, USA
Bright light from north to south and vanished
Madison · AL, USA
Object darted across the sky and would stop on a dime and dart in another direction
Huntsville · AL, USA
Red moving dot above Alabama on July 4th
Muscle Shoals · AL, USA
3 glowing red lights in a line.
Hoover · AL, USA
Giant Mettalic/Silver almost transparent craft seen over Caldwell Mill Road and ValleyDale Rd
Monrovia · AL, USA
Lat night around 10:00 cst. Me and a friend were outside and I looked up and saw a very bright red and white light. I told my friend to
Perdue Hill · AL, USA
Two ovals of light appear above family farm, behave erratically, then disappear.
Huntsville · AL, USA
"very aggressive''
Anniston · AL, USA
This fireball object appeared like a plane flying over at first then hovered over us and some other people walking for about 5 minutes
Muscle Shoals · AL, USA
green brilliant light over colbert county alabama
Mobile · AL, USA
I was on my way home from work (overtime) and i was on this long road with trees on both sides of the highway. The road was practically