NUFORC UFO Sighting 176469
Occurred: 2023-06-25 19:57 Local
Reported: 2023-06-26 10:01 Pacific
Duration: 4 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Hoover, AL, USA
Location details: Hoover Al

Shape: Circle


Really weird

So it's weird I'm walking my dogs out for a bit, something was really on my consciousness to take my phone out and get a video of the sky, there was a rocket or missle of some type being shot in the sky & outta no where this object appears very small, no noise in the sky like a regular aircraft no lights on the craft so I then knew it wasn't a regular aircraft







Posted 2023-07-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 173321
Occurred: 2022-12-07 17:48 Local
Reported: 2022-12-07 16:42 Pacific
Duration: Unknown
No of observers: 2

Location: Hoover, AL, USA
Location details: Shades Crest Road on the side closest to the cliff

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

While driving I saw a spinning disk of lights low to the ground with a red light blinking on top.

I was in the car and over the cliff where lights of the city below can be seen. I regularly drive this way at night and I noticed something I haven’t seen before. Near the horizon line there was a line of yellow lights. I looked closer and they appeared to be spinning and a red light flashed on the top of what appeared to be the disk shape. If this is not a UFO my only guess is that it could be a stadium but the lights were too uniform for that and it would not makes sense that they span. I took a video of the lights but it is hard to make out the shape. My dad did not see the object but witnessed my reaction and is also familiar with the skyline.







Posted 2022-12-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 171515
Occurred: 2022-08-31 21:02 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-08-31 23:07 Pacific
Duration: Approximately 25 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Hoover, AL, USA
Location details: Ridge crossings Apartment complex

Shape: Diamond
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

My girlfriend and I saw a diamond shaped object which quickly ascended and traveled at extraordinary speeds

as my girlfriend and I were walking up the stairs to her car in the parking lot we saw a diamond shaped object hovering a few hundred feet with a light at each of the four points and an additional light in the center of the object being the total visible amount of lights to 5, this object quickly ascended to at least a thousand feet in the air and slowly took off out of view in about 5-10 seconds. This object had no visible means of propulsion and made no noise which I found very interesting after initially thinking of it as a drone, I have no idea what this was but I am ver certain it was no plane flying into Birmingham airport and it certainly was no helicopter or drone considering how large it was. The video below was taken on my girlfriends iPhone in what little time she had to react




Posted 2022-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 153394
Occurred: 2020-02-19 15:50 Local
Reported: 2020-02-19 16:26 Pacific
Duration: 45
No of observers: 20

Location: Hoover, AL, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Possible abduction

Driving down highway 150 saw a bright triangle with lights in the points and one extra in the middle of the back. Sat still over the gravyard sat still for about 15 seconds to a sharp left flew over the car dealership and was gone. Flew straight up and was gone. I tried to get a video but was not able while driving. Wondering if anyone else saw it since it was 5 o’clock traffic.



Posted 2020-02-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 128375
Occurred: 2016-06-03 00:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2016-07-09 16:52 Pacific
Duration: 21:30
No of observers: 3

Location: Hoover, AL, USA

Shape: Circle


When me and my were walking out my house, we saw a bright light and we thought it was airplane, then we thought it was helicopter, but it didn't had any sound it was moving very smoothly and it went far but then it move towards us and then stop then it was flashing it bright light.

i have record every thing on my phone, and Peter I'm a big fan of your work and I try to listen to you George Norris show every Friday. keep up the good work.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD


Posted 2016-07-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 119579
Occurred: 2015-06-15 22:45 Local
Reported: 2015-06-16 16:23 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Hoover, AL, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Near Ross Bridge Resort, at around 22:45 a group of 8 twinkling red and white lights flew a grid pattern over Ross Bridge parkway.



Posted 2015-06-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 116048
Occurred: 2014-12-11 16:20 Local
Reported: 2014-12-16 07:45 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Hoover, AL, USA

Shape: Light


4 white floating streaks of light, that moved in no particular order in Hoover area

So, we were driving on interstate 65, getting off by the Galleria, on the fly over and me, (the passenger) notice 4 white streaks of light that seemed to be floating and i called my friend who was in the car in front of us and asked if she saw them, and at that time, there were now only 3 lights and we all saw the same streaks of white light that seemed to be moving but in no particular fashion and then one disappeared and the 3 remaining began to scatter and they were moving toward the bessemer/tuscaloosa area.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2014-12-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 113870
Occurred: 2014-09-24 18:25 Local
Reported: 2014-09-24 23:14 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Hoover, AL, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

It appeared to a possible intercepting event with those contrail aircraft and then turned south on highway.

Observed two cloud stationary looking objects. Not a cloud as weather conditions were very dry and not a cloud in the sky, at any level..... Then up to 7 (seven) aircraft with contrails moving toward the *lights*... All in the western sky.

Posted 2014-09-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 113571
Occurred: 2014-09-14 22:15 Local
Reported: 2014-09-14 20:42 Pacific
Duration: 3-5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Hoover, AL, USA

Shape: Egg
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

green glowing object moving past me overhead

I was on the interstate and saw a green glow from an object in the sky. It moved from behind me in the same direction I was traveling and disappeared past the tree line several miles ahead of me in only a few seconds. It looked like there was a teardrop shape around an egg shape which may have been fire, but was all a green or jade color.

Posted 2014-09-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 108926
Occurred: 2014-04-25 22:09 Local
Reported: 2014-04-25 20:24 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Hoover, AL, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby, Animals reacted

Strange light in Birmingham disappears instantly 2 witnesses.

Range to white light hovering then descending then hovering the went east and totally disappeared in a flash!




NUFORC Note:

We suspect an evening sighting, and have changed the time above. PD


Posted 2014-05-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 166333
Occurred: 2013-10-23 00:15 Local
Reported: 2022-01-20 05:05 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Hoover, AL, USA
Location details: Cell tower behind Iguana Grill

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

4 T shaped amber objects

Spotted 2 Amber colored objects next to cell phone tower as I was taking my friend home. We got out of the car and watched them for a few minutes as they gradually moved off over the horizon.. They appeared to be 30 feet in height and 10 feet in width at the top. Each end of the T had a circular barb shape like a barbell . The objects were 300 feet away from us and we're very visible. The distance from the ground was less than the height of the cell tower. They appeared to be made of plasma, T shaped and I could see the energy moving about inside them.. After the first 2 we're almost out of sight two more appeared from behind the tree line.

Initially during the sighting I refused to look away to grab my phone as I was not going to miss any part of what I was seeing. Thinking the sighting was over or just about over, we noticed more amber lights behind the trees next to us and two more objects that were identical to the two we I initially saw came out above the trees directly up to the cell phone tower. It was then I decided to take some video. My friend was a cell phone tower technician and was the first to spot the objects as he commonly notices towers and especially that one as it is located directly next to the apartments he lived in. The tower is located in Hoover Alabama. It's on a hill behind a restaurant called the Iguana Grill. His apartment was on the bottom of the opposite side of the hill from the restaurant. This is a very populated area. The time was about 12:15 am. The moon was very bright that night. The sky's were super clear. There was no wind and we could hear traffic going down the interstate a couple miles away very clearly but not anything from the objects. The video clips I have are good quality but the images do not appear well. You can see there is something in the sky of amber color. The first recording I attempted I noticed the flash above the camera came on and I immediately covered it with my hand and shut it off as I did not want to signal the objects. It was too late however as the object in front reacted to my cameras bright flash and began coming towards us. It also began changing from the amber color to a bright red almost magenta. I started to run away across the parking lot. I looked back and it then changed back to the amber color and re positioned itself in front of the other one.. Both sets of objects traveled the same. One object was in front and the other was behind off to the side. That pattern reminded me of the way fighter pilots fly with a wingman. I took another short video with the flash off. I was paying close attention and focused on getting the best video I could. The Samsung phone just did not take good night time video. I have saved the videos to multiple cloud based locations to prevent ever loosing them. It's been almost 10 years since the sighting. I've decided to make this report to hopefully help determine what the heck these things were. It was a life changing experience.

Posted 2022-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 102697
Occurred: 2013-09-27 19:35 Local
Reported: 2013-09-27 18:06 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Hoover, AL, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams, Possible abduction

Bright blue saucer with blue lights beaming from the bottom of the object spanning outwards. Cat missing.

I went outside to look for my cat, who has been missing for several hours. In the southwestern sky I saw there was a bright blue saucer hovering around. It had a bright blue beam of light coming from the bottom of it, spanning outwards. It hovered around and appeared to be moving away from my house towards the south.

Posted 2013-09-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 99870
Occurred: 2013-07-06 21:10 Local
Reported: 2013-07-07 04:52 Pacific
Duration: 12 minutes
No of observers: 7

Location: Hoover, AL, USA

Shape: Circle


My father and I saw two flying red objects darting across the night sky last night. There were other neighbors who witnessed this as well.

The objects were moving faster than an airplane or helicopter, they were absolutely silent, had some sort or red/orange glowing "halo" (for a lack of a better word.

They rapidly flew for quite a distance - from North East to South West, came to an abrupt halt, then appeared to quickly descend at an angle and vanished.

I was quite shaken and have not slept all night.

I have been on my pc all night trying to find some news regarding what we witnessed.

It is now 6:50 am Central Standard Time.

Posted 2013-07-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 93006
Occurred: 2012-09-22 22:30 Local
Reported: 2012-09-22 23:34 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Hoover, AL, USA

Shape: Flash
Characteristics: Changed Colo

orange and blue lights

I was in the parking lot of a store when I saw a flash of orange and then blue lights. This is my first UFO sighting. One of the most amazing things I have ever seen.

Posted 2012-09-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 92113
Occurred: 2012-08-22 19:00 Local
Reported: 2012-08-24 12:18 Pacific
Duration: 8 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Hoover, AL, USA

Shape: Orb


White light that appeared as comet but changed shape and slowed down.

It was around 7:20 PM and the sun was starting to set, so it was still really bright outside. And there was this bright light that caught the corner of my eye that was close to the moon, and it started off looking like a comet. Then it began to curve downward and it was still going pretty fast, then it started to slow down and as it was still going down it started to change shape to look like a star. I thought this object was going to take the place of a star because of the slow pace it was going, but it was still moving and started going down in a slight zig zag motion. Then it changed direction again and started to go off into the distance. And I know it wasn't a plane because what plane needs its lights on while the sun is still up? It would appear black or gray, not a glowing white orb that was at an altitude that seemed too high for a plane.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2012-09-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 83572
Occurred: 2011-07-29 17:20 Local
Reported: 2011-08-30 13:52 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Hoover, AL, USA

Shape: Other


Giant Mettalic/Silver almost transparent craft seen over Caldwell Mill Road and ValleyDale Rd

Coming from work from Highway 280 at the corner or Valleydale Rd and Caldwell Mill Rd, a craft appreared in BROAD DAYLIGHT way above and started dropping very fast. At fist it looked like some type of airplane that was about to crash. Then we noticed it was not an airplane, helicopter, blimp, balloon or any variation of either. Additionally, we noticed that as it was descending very fast that it was moving sideways, actually different from the direction the main part of the craft was pointing. Then is stopped in mid-air. I mean a complete stop. There was traffic but it was pretty close to the tree line and a craft that big should have made some noise. The size I would say would be roughly equivalent to a commercial air liner and the color was a metallic/silvery almost transparent color. Almost camouflaged to be honest. Depending on which angle you were looking into the sun, I doubt that everybody could have seen it. We videoed a few seconds on if on ou! r Android X phones then it disappeared. We were very happy that we got the video, only to learn seconds later that the video was corrupted. I am a seasoned Software Engineer than have much experience in video/audio and I could not get that video to play in any way for any reason. This was even after I downloaded it from the phones and tried some other video editing. It was utterly and totally unusable. This would make the 3rd craft I have seen and the 1st one she has seen. This one however looked nothing like the other two. This one was shaped kind of like a giant bird type shape with wings slightly folded back and a raised front. I researched secret military planes that night and didn't find anything even remotely close, especially anything metallic/silver and that would be almost transparent in broad daylight.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2011-10-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 58191
Occurred: 2007-01-23 21:00 Local
Reported: 2007-08-15 08:58 Pacific
Duration: 2 min.
No of observers: 2

Location: Hoover, AL, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Triangle shaped, white lights on the side, red light in middle. hovered over trees for a couple min.

I'm 21 and i'm not supposed to be the crazy one in the family. My mom and I had just left the hospital(UAB) where we where visiting my brother, my mom was driving the land rover and I was in the front passenger seat. We are in Hoover, AL near Birmingham. Ok so we where headed south on I65 and we saw it just as we passed the Alford Ave exit on the right just above the trees.It was triangular shaped with bright white lights on the sides and a red blinking light on the bottom. We thought it was some kind of tower but since we didn't remember a tower being there we got off two exits down and took HWY 31 back toward Alford Ave. The thing was gone in the 10 mins or less that it took to turn around.it was around 9:00 PM mabey a little before.




NUFORC Note:

Date of the event may be approximate. PD


Posted 2007-10-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 125459
Occurred: 2006-09-01 17:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2016-01-26 02:42 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Hoover, AL, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

Neon green fireball with neon purple and blue tail.

I was driving from a friend’s house to go home on Caldwell Mill Road in Hoover, AL, it was around 5pm in September 2006. I was sitting in traffic and noticed a beautiful “fireball,” only the ball part was neon green, and it had a very long tail, which was neon purple and blue.

It went slowly overhead; it took about 4 minutes to go across the sky and over the trees, then disappeared from my view. It was beautiful. I have never seen anything like it before.

I looked online and watched the news to see if it was some type of meteor, but still till this day I have yet to hear anything about it.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2016-01-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 50260
Occurred: 2006-04-16 09:54 Local
Reported: 2006-04-23 23:53 Pacific
Duration: 4 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Hoover, AL, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

2 different ships 2 different days

Was driving down 459 heading east with my girlfriend and was watching this light in the distance. Didn't look like anything I have seen before. I started to slow down on the interstate to get a better look and it was getting closer. As it passed over head around 500 feet above I pulled over the car. I couldn't really see the shape of the object other than the light formations underneath. The lights were in a plus formation with 7 white lights total. The light were a dome shape (kinda like one of those battery dome push lights.) Being around 500 feet above me I would say that each dome was as least 6 feet in diameter. I rolled down my window to see if I could hear anything and it was dead silent. The ship was moving probably around 5 miles an hour. Maybe even slower. Saying I could have ran across the interstate about the same speed as it was traveling. The ship was heading toward Bessemer.

Two days later I was in hueytown and for about 5 sec saw another ship that was a diamond shape color bright blue under the diamond there was a U cut out shape. Was moving east to west very fast and very straight. Was almost like the U shape underneath the ship was traveling on an invisible rail. The color of the ship was changing from red, yellow only on the bottom U part. The rest of the ship was bright blue. Had 5 people see this ship. One was a church lady and just could not believe her eyes.



Posted 2006-05-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 48416
Occurred: 2005-12-21 17:00 Local
Reported: 2005-12-21 23:28 Pacific
Duration: 15 min
No of observers: 0

Location: Hoover, AL, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Left a trail

slow moving Fireball in the sky

I was driving down Lorna Rd when I saw what looked like an orange commet falling from the sky. It was orange. It had a rather long (what looked like) fire flame following it.

To be honest, if I heard on the news that what I saw was an airplane that blew up in the sky and was on fire as it descended, I would believe it. Granted it had to be a rather LARGE fire as I could see the item on fire and it was WAY up in the sky. If it was space garbage, It was HUGE space garbage as the tail was long, almost like a shooting star that went real slow. It fell downward.

I saw all of this with a nake eye. It traveled very slow.

It was not a plane "smoke" trail. I called my employees at the Hoover office. THey saw it as well and could not guess what it was as none of us had seen anything like this before.

I watched it for about 10 - 15 min before it disappeared out of my viewing area




NUFORC Note:

Possible contrail, we suspect. PD


Posted 2006-02-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 42197
Occurred: 2005-02-23 19:30 Local
Reported: 2005-02-24 19:39 Pacific
Duration: seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Hoover (Bluff Park), AL, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Electrical or magnetic effects

triangle in the air in front of Bluff Park School flew towards the valley and vanished

My sister and I were driving to aikido training. Right before we got to Bluff Park Elementary School, we saw very bright lights in the sky moving right to left about 150 feet in the air. We thought it was an airplane. It was so low it looked it was going to land, but we are 16 miles from the nearest airport. When the lights came across in front of the car, we saw that it was a large triangle the size of a jet liner. It was gray and the bright lights were lined up along the edges of the triangle. Right after we saw it, it vanished. It was pouring rain but didn't look like it went into the clouds because, as bright as it was, we would have seen the lights shining throught the clouds for at least a few more seconds. Instead, it simply vanished.

I called my mom right then to tell her. She said that it would have gone over our house from the direction it was traveling seconds before we saw it, but she never heard anything. We never heard anything either, although the transmission in my car suddenly slipped very hard and the car hesitated when the triangle went over us.

There were only white lights on it, no red or green or any other color.



NUFORC Note:

Student report. PD


Posted 2005-04-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 38580
Occurred: 2004-08-10 21:23 Local
Reported: 2004-08-10 20:12 Pacific
Duration: several seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: Hoover/Bluff Park, AL, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

triangle of white and red lights

As we were driving back from fueling up my daughter's car before school tomorrow, I saw lights through the tops of the trees. A few seconds later, when we came to a stop sign and a clearing, I saw the strange-looking thing flying SE to NE not too high up in the sky.

It was composed of four white lights and two red lights, none of which were flashing, and it was traveling quite fast. It seems like it would have been triangular in shape with one white light at the forward point, three white lights in a row behind it, and the two red lights at the opposite back corners. There were no green lights and no 'headlights' that we frequently see on aircraft landing at this time of night.

At arm's length, it was about the size of the end joint of my thumb (about one inch). A pure guess about altitude would be about 1,000 feet. It seemed really close, to me, closer than aircraft usually fly. I certainly would love to know what it was. If you'd like, I'll mail a drawing.



Posted 2004-08-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 23817
Occurred: 2002-07-18 21:30 Local
Reported: 2002-07-18 19:56 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Hoover, AL, USA

Shape: Light


A point of light starting moving very fast then vanished. I saw the same thing a few minutes later.

I was out with the dog looking at the stars when I noticed a point of light looking just like a star moving very fast almost directly above. No trail, sound, blinking lights, just a point of light. I thought it was a satellite or the space station and went inside to tell the wife to hurry outside. I then went back outside looking for it but did not see anything. I knew it was moving so fast it would already be past the trees. Then from the same point in the sky I saw a point of light take off in the same direction. This time I watched it till is vanished overhead. It got very dim and disappeared. From my experience it was nothing like a meteor. I did not think it was strange at the first time, but when I went back outside and saw the same thing again that was weird. I just wished I had watched it the first time to see if it slowly disappeared.

Posted 2002-07-26

NUFORC UFO Sighting 17689
Occurred: 2001-05-18 21:20 Local
Reported: 2001-05-18 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 20sec
No of observers: 2

Location: Hoover, AL, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

page not available

craft about 2K feet altitude, very bright forward light and three in a triangle. the very bright (white)light just to the rear of the smaller forward light. This craft was huge, no strobs, no sound. Its movement was to the north toward Birmingham. How great it is.

Posted 2001-08-05