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)
Chalybeate Springs · AL, USA
going down a dark road between chalybeate springs and moluton me and my were goning down the road when i saw about 6 lights which at fi
Dothan · AL, USA
Saw a big light in sky moving a bit and then it left VERY quickly.
Clanton · AL, USA
Two very bright solid orange lights fly overhead with no sound.
Orange Beach · AL, USA
Observed light at high altitude chane directions in an impossible way.
Montgomery · AL, USA
Bright moving light spotted east of Montgomery, AL in early a.m. ~2 hours before sunrise
Attalla/Gadsden · AL, USA
It was so quiet the cattle in the field didn't even run from it.
Huntsville · AL, USA
Bright light moving and fading to dark, like high altitude rocket thruster, seen briefly near Cassiopea.
Hoover/Bluff Park · AL, USA
triangle of white and red lights
Gulf Shores · AL, USA
Object looked to be a mile high ,at least half mile wide with five lights three feet across on bottom.
Orange Beach · AL, USA
Orange Lights over Gulf of Mexico (Orange Beach, Ala.) ((NUFORC Note: Flares?? PD))
Piedmont · AL, USA
Several objects in sky - seemed to be twirling and flashing red - green - blue and white lights and would hover then very quickly move
Huntsville · AL, USA
Object flys slowly over Huntsville Alabama
Birmingham · AL, USA
Was at the rail yard, out-skirts of town, at given time, on report. Saw what appeared to be neither "space debris" but a round object
Helena · AL, USA
Two adults witness boomerang-shaped object during a strange sequence of events
Hanceville · AL, USA
It was a green light that just sat there for a second. It had a slight pulse to it. It flew away to the east at a high rate of speed t
Dothan · AL, USA
A Light again
Leeds · AL, USA
4 person, 6 sec sighting of a slow streaking flare/meteorite type object that disappeared and reappeared before passing nearby horizon.
Tuscaloosa · AL, USA
Spring 2004 My husband and I are both night owls and enjoy walking our German Shepard around the block late at night when its nice and
Orange Beach · AL, USA
Object traveling back-and-fourth for unknown reason and unidentifible possibly because of the distant when the object was sighted.
Gadsden · AL, USA
It seemed to hover above the water as opposed to gliding through it.
Foley · AL, USA
Sphere flying in formation with 4 jet aircrafts
Birmingham · AL, USA
Large dark chevron, silently passing overhead in early AM hours, only seen because against star fields.
Silverhill (SE of) · AL, USA
lights in the middle of the night in South Alabama
Hartselle · AL, USA
It was just like the footage of the shuttle explosion!
Rock Creek · AL, USA
Coming home from the store my husband and I noticed two bright lights in the sky. We went into the house, got our binoculars (our two d