NUFORC UFO Sighting 188018
Occurred: 2025-02-28 13:50 Local
Reported: 2025-02-28 15:24 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2 - Military

Location: Fort Payne, AL, USA
Location details: We were in a parking lot pulled over observing them

Shape: Circle
Color: White
Estimated Size: 1000’s
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: North
Angle of Elevation: 26
Closest Distance: 10,000 feet or higher
Estimated Speed: 100 mph
Explanation: Birds - Possible
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

We were heading north on Gault Ave. in Fort Payne when my fiancé and I observed over a thousand white objects in the sky swirling around

My fiancé and I pulled over to a parking lot off of Gault Avenue in the north end of town in Fort Payne, Alabama after observing what looked to be over a thousand white objects swirling around in the sky. They would swirl around a bit and vanish, then they would come back again and vanish into the sky again. We watched them do this 3 different times. My fiancé and I tried to record it with our phones, but our phone wouldn’t pick up the objects. You could definitely see them with the naked eye.

Posted 2025-03-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 173995
Occurred: 2023-01-18 13:15 Local
Reported: 2023-01-18 11:47 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 2

Location: Fort Payne, AL, USA
Location details: I believe I have a UFO landing site in my yard.

Shape: Egg
Characteristics: Left a trail, Emitted beams, Landed, Electrical or magnetic effects

I'm capturing these objects on my security camera and they are leaving landing areas.

I just got my Geiger counter in the mail today because I have been curious about these strange things I have been seeing that have also left strange marks in my backyard. I have been observing strange indentations in my backyard over the last year. There have been many indentations left in the yard and one in particular has left a reading of 113 V/m and .13 uT on my Geiger counter, which is, supposed to be an extremely dangerous level and concerning amount for an electromagnetic field. The indentation was left on a fence that divides my yard and the neighbors behind me. It was enough weight to bend the fence and nothing has fallen on the fence. Nobody has been in our yard doing work, but whatever it was, it bent the fence and left about a 4 ft. wide across indentation on the fence and in the brush against the fence. I haven't contacted anyone yet because I don't know what to do. There are also seems to be small footprints left leading away from the indentation that has left readings that can be picked up by my Geiger counter.







Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 167364
Occurred: 2022-03-01 00:00 Local
Reported: 2022-04-03 08:18 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Fort Payne, AL, USA
Location details: I'm seeing these rods every night without fail in my backyard on my infrared security camera.

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Emitted beams

I'm capturing these "rods" on my infrared security camera usually between 12 a.m. and 4 a.m. each morning.

Each night for the last few months I have been capturing these objects on my infrared security camera. Sometimes, they are spherical in shape, but most of the time they are "rod" or "cylinder" shaped. They move a lot faster than bugs and appear to go through objects. I have countless videos of them. I am a former military policeman. I spent 10 years in the military, four in the Marine Corps and six in the Army, so I am a trained observer. They seem to be intelligently controlled. My camera only captures objects in 20 second increments. I have attached some videos below. I have over 40 videos. Please watch at slow speed!
















Posted 2022-04-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 166442
Occurred: 2022-01-28 13:52 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-01-28 12:35 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Fort Payne, AL, USA
Location details: I'm seeing this every night.

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted other objects

We were checking our security cameras again today and we caught this UAP.

We have seen these bright lights every day. Today, we caught it in broad day light and it was emitting some type of gas. We can't see it with the naked eye, just on our infrared camera.







Posted 2022-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 166322
Occurred: 2022-01-19 00:00 Local
Reported: 2022-01-19 09:17 Pacific
Duration: 6 hours
No of observers: 3

Location: Fort Payne, AL, USA
Location details: Backyard of my house

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Left a trail

I saw these on my security camera that was facing my backyard.

These flying objects were captured on my security camera from 12 midnight to around 5 a.m. 1/19/2022. They were so fast, you have to watch them at slow speeds.




























Posted 2022-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 166284
Occurred: 2022-01-18 17:49 Local
Reported: 2022-01-18 18:42 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: Fort Payne, AL, USA
Location details: It flew off the back deck of my house.

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Left a trail

I saw it on my security camera.

I've been seeing some strange indentations and holes all around my house. Over the last year, my motion detector on my back deck has been going crazy every night. It will come on and when I look outside, I would see nothing. Last night I was looking at my security camera and there seemed to be some lights flickering on my back porch, even with the motion light out. Normally, when the motion light is out, it's so dark you cannot see anything. Today, I decided to move my camera to a position that could see more up into the air and roof of my house hoping to capture whatever it is causing my motion light to come on. When I went outside to adjust my security camera, this thing was caught flying off. I didn't see it until my fiancé noticed it when we were checking out the security footage. I'm a little shocked to say the least.




Posted 2022-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 162177
Occurred: 2021-02-20 10:15 Local
Reported: 2021-02-21 11:47 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Fort Payne, AL, USA

Shape: Cylinder


Shiny UFO over Fort Payne

I was coming down Hwy. 35 when I saw a bright shiny object overhead. I watched it for about 10 seconds until it disappeared. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky. Then, it slowly disappeared almost like it dissolved into the sky.



Posted 2021-03-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 157273
Occurred: 2020-07-02 21:30 Local
Reported: 2020-07-02 21:13 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Fort Payne, AL, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object

It was bright red and move before it disappeared.

Myself, my fiancé, and my son saw this red ball of light for about 20 minutes in the western part of the sky of our city during a 4th of July fireworks celebration for the city of Fort Payne. It did not move and it was red, red and round like a laser pointer. It did not have any other colors blinking at all like a radio or cell tower. I have the video.

Posted 2020-07-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 139362
Occurred: 2018-04-04 21:00 Local
Reported: 2018-04-04 22:18 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Fort Payne, AL, USA

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Unidentified Black and Red, Rectangular Flying Object

After picking up my husband from work, and driving home through the main street in town, we suddenly saw passing directly over and in front of our car a rectangular black object with the short side of the craft on both ends lit up in a red bar shape with a smaller blinking red light behind it.

We immediately pulled over to get out of the car to get a better view. We were amazed that there was no sound at all while smoothly gliding past us. It then proceeded to descend at a downward angle, then appeared to go straight down. We couldn't see exactly where it went at that point because of the buildings and houses blocking our view.




NUFORC Note:

We spoke via telephone with the wife, and we found her to be quite eloquent, sober-minded, and "matter-of-fact," in her description of the object. We invited her to submit an illustration of the object. PD


Posted 2018-04-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 124167
Occurred: 2015-11-16 19:30 Local
Reported: 2015-11-17 21:23 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Fort Payne, AL, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

red light seen moving slowly left,right and rapidly vertically up and down.

On 11/16/15 about 7:30 pm myself, my sister-in-law & her daughter were walking her dogs. It was dark, light overcast and very windy. When reaching the intersection of Hamilton Drive and Crystal Lake Drive we spotted a large, bright red light against the mountain. My first thought was it was a car's tail lights visible on a mountain road, but then realized there were no mountain roads in that area.

The light moved up the mountain side seemingly following the slope and then back down to approximately its original elevation and began blinking a small green light from the lower side of the red light. It began to move left, right, back left and then rapidly ascended to an altitude approximately the height of the mountain, estimate 500 feet in about 5 seconds. Then it rapidly descended back to its original altitude.

The light slowly descended from that point behind a tree line as if landing and was not seen again.

No craft shape could be seen as the red light dominated.

The event lasted approximately 20 minutes.

Posted 2015-11-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 96194
Occurred: 2013-02-03 20:00 Local
Reported: 2013-02-04 11:33 Pacific
Duration: all night
No of observers: 2

Location: Fort Payne, AL, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Strange light in east near fort payne,al

I began seeing a strange star like light in winter of last year. It comes out of the east over looking lookout mountain and tracks north movement is slow but deliberate. I just want to know what it is star satellite or whatever. It usually pulsates red and blue colors but it changes frequency and color through different times of the night. Sometimes blue and purple sometimes green. But it is easier to see than all the stars.

A seperate sighting of a completely different kind occured last December around 3 a.m.. I was duck hunting on the tennesse river near Stevenson, AL, roughly 50 miles northwest of fort payne. I saw a gold light to the east moving very erraticly it even appeared to be dancing at times. The sighting lasted around 30 minutes before descending out of sight behind the mountains




NUFORC Note:

Possible sighting of Sirius, we suspect. PD


Posted 2013-02-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 80870
Occurred: 2011-04-13 22:30 Local
Reported: 2011-04-13 21:43 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Fort Payne, AL, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Flashing white, blue, red and green lights over Fort Payne Alabama

I went out on the back porch with my son, and we were just looking at the stars. He said, “Woe mom look at this!” I said,” It’s a star” and he quickly responded, “Look again the thing is flashing white, blue, red, and green.”

It hovered for about twenty minutes making no sound then slowly moved to the southwest until it disappeared.

I went in and got my husband so he could see it.

Posted 2011-05-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 55338
Occurred: 2005-08-17 12:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2007-02-18 14:45 Pacific
Duration: 30 min.
No of observers: 3

Location: Fort Payne, AL, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Electrical or magnetic effects

Silver, triangular craft seen. Around 100 ft. long and 50-75 ft. wide.

My brother, grandmother, and I were going up the mountain in Fort Payne and we saw a triangular craft. It was close to one hundred feet long and maybe fifty to seventy-five feet wide and it was silver.

We drove along watching it and lost track of it about fifteen minutes later. We got up around Fyffe and we saw a large fire.

My grandmother got worried and called 911 to report/ask if there were any aircraft crashes. The 911 operator said, "No, there haven’t been any crashes reported."






NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2007-02-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 19940
Occurred: 2001-10-18 17:51 Local
Reported: 2001-10-24 12:36 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 1

Location: Fort Payne, AL, USA

Shape: Circle


Hunter with video camera captures round object he's seen before.

I am a newspaper reporter who interviewed a man about video footage he shot while hunting a deer on Lookout Mountain. He said the mystery object had a reflective glare like the metallic exterior of a passenger jet, but it did not move like one. It maneuvered more like a helicopter, although he saw no rotor blades and it suddenly, abruptly went straight up and out of view. This gentleman had no idea what to do with the footage and contacted the local newspaper. He'd seen it 5 years ago and again before this, but this was the first time he had a video camera. I found this website while researching for the story. We reported on numerous UFO sightings in Fyffe, Alabama and strange cattle mutilations that suddenly ended. I, myself, saw what the people were seeing back in 1993. I don't know if it's space aliens, but something freaky is going on here.



NUFORC Note:

Digitized image was forwarded to NUFORC for our inspection. It appears to be quite indistinct in the digitized version. We do not know what the witness managed to photograph. PD


Posted 2001-11-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 181946
Occurred: 1978-12-20 21:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2024-06-19 10:19 Pacific
Duration: 20-25 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Fort Payne, AL, USA
Location details: I-59 southbound between Fort Payne AL and Gadsden AL, probably closer to Gadsden.

Shape: Disk
Color: white
Estimated Size: Disk shaped 15-20 feet across.
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: we were traveling south. The object appeared in front of us and approached us from that direction.
Angle of Elevation: 10
Closest Distance: Directly over our vehicle maybe 10 feet
Estimated Speed: After approaching it matched our highway speed
Characteristics: Lights on object, Made a sound

Traveling interstate in rural area at night had saucer shaped object fly in front of and over our vehicle.

I am reporting something that happened in about 1978. I was on I-59 in Alabama between Chattanooga and Birmingham, was traveling south at with my husband and I in the front seat and a child sleeping in the back seat. Probably near Gadsen. At the time there was almost no other traffic on the road.

We had the UFO approach from the front. There was no mistaking it for anything else. We saw it about a hundred yards away directly in front. At one point the object was at about billboard height. It approached us from the distance. It was saucer shaped and had a dome on top. There were lights on the bottom that I did not see until it got closer. As it approached it then came within ten or twenty feet of the front of the car at a height of about 20 feet and maintained that distance. We maintained speed and kept moving. After maintaining that distance and height for maybe 20 minutes it moved directly over the car. We knew it was over the car because there was light from overhead and we could hear it. When it took off there was more light and more sound. It took off quickly and disappeared behind us. Altogether this lasted for 20-25 minutes with most that time the object near and in front of us or overhead.

Had a very good look as it remained so close in front of the car for a long time. It was saucer shaped, white with a round shape on top. The diameter was probably 15 to 20 feet across. On remembering this now these many years later, I was asked if there was anything that came out of the craft. I do recall when it approached us from the front there was a kind of sweep of light that came across the car.

Posted 2024-06-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 136066
Occurred: 1973-04-15 00:00 Local
Reported: 2017-09-07 21:53 Pacific
Duration: ~5-8 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Fort Payne, AL, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object

it was round with colored lights all around it 50 to 75 yards in leanth 1972 in fort payne alabama i was very clouse to it about 150 ya

the craft was round and hade different colored lights around it it was about 50 to 75 yards in deamenter it huvered about 5 to 8 minutes i was onley about 150 yardes from it my grand mother hade told the familey it was on the ploice scanner the police from the nabioring town flowed it to our town so i went out side to look and i walker in the back yard of the nabiors and i wated then i saw it it scared me to death i could not belive what i was looking at i will never forget what i saw if i would have hade a carama it would have been one the best ufo pitucers in the world when it left it went across the moutain in a flash ive wonted to tell this for nearley 45 years




NUFORC Note:

We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be quite sincere. We suspect that he is a highly reliable witness. PD


Posted 2017-09-08