NUFORC UFO Sighting 185189
Occurred: 2024-12-13 22:30 Local
Reported: 2024-12-14 10:20 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds to 5
No of observers: 2

Location: Pell City, AL, USA
Location details: There just was a curvy road with a lot of trees.

Shape: Fireball
Color: Neon green
Estimated Size: huge almost like a plane
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: the left
Angle of Elevation: 74
Closest Distance: 40,000 ft
Estimated Speed: faster than jet speed
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

Just us riding down the road seeing this suspicious fireball thing

I was is the passenger seat of my friends car while he was driving. While he was driving I had seen something green out of the left corner of my eye and I didn't think much till my friend yelled "yo look at that!" I was a witness of it and I hade seen it almost as clear as day. A strange thing was as soon as he yelled it disappeared.

Posted 2024-12-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 185190
Occurred: 2024-12-13 22:30 Local
Reported: 2024-12-14 10:11 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds max
No of observers: 4

Location: Pell City, AL, USA
Location details: There just was a curvy road with a lot of trees.

Shape: Fireball
Color: Neon green
Estimated Size: big as a airplane
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: to the right
Angle of Elevation: 76
Closest Distance: 40,000 ft
Estimated Speed: faster than jet speed
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

I was driving down the road and I thought to see a shooting star but as I looked closer it was a green orb and I yelled at my friends. As soon as I yelled it vanished!!!

Posted 2024-12-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 97630
Occurred: 2013-05-07 18:00 Local
Reported: 2013-05-07 20:48 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Pell City, AL, USA

Shape: Oval


Bright silver object that just vanished in the sky.

My daughter and I were getting onto the interstate and I noticed a very BRIGHT silver object in the sky. It looked unusual so I pulled over and we started watching it. It was a football shaped bright metal object that was moving across the sky. It was not leaving anykind of smoke or any kind of trail behind it. We saw it for about 2 minutes when it suddenly just vanished. It was a CLEAR blue sky when no clouds. We saw nothing fall out of the sky and we sat for at least 2 more minutes looking to see if it would show up again. It was a very exciting moment. We would both thrilled to have seen it!!!!

Posted 2013-05-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 69933
Occurred: 2009-05-03 20:51 Local
Reported: 2009-05-04 08:52 Pacific
Duration: 20 MIN
No of observers: 1

Location: Pell City, AL, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

RED LIGHT FLYING BACK AND FORTH FROM EAST HORIZON TO WEST HORIZON VERY HIGH UP.

IT WAS 8:51 PM CENTRAL TIME I SAW A VERY FAINT OBJECT MOVE FROM WEST TO EAST IN NIGHT SKY COVERED WHOLE HORIZON IN LESS THAN A MIN. NO BLINKING LIGHTS A RED COLOR VERY FAINT THOUGH, ALMOST HAD TO LOOK AWAY FROM IT TO SEE IT WITH PERIPHRIAL VISION. ABOUT 7 MIN. LATER I SAW THE CRAFT COME BACK THE OTHER WAY FROM EAST TO WEST ,AGAIN VERY FAST COVERED WHOLE SKY IN A PARALLEL MOTOIN FROM THE FIRST SIGHTING. DIDN'T SEE IT COME BACK FROM WEST TO EAST. BUT A FEW MIN. LATER I SAW IT AGAIN FROM EAST TO WEST AGAIN IN SAME PATTERN AS BEFORE. I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE. I KNOW IT WASNT AN AIRPLANE IT WAS WAY TO FAR UP IN THE AIR. I AM GOING TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT TONIGHT.



Posted 2009-05-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 72591
Occurred: 2008-10-01 11:00 Local
Reported: 2009-09-24 15:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 Min.
No of observers: 1

Location: Pell City, AL, USA

Shape: Cigar


Very high, cigar shaped UFO moving at incredible speeds.

Around the date of October 1st, 2008, I witnessed a very distant object very high up. It might have been an airplane, however, do to the altitude I'm not sure. Another reason I'm skeptical it was a UFO is because it was moving at incredible speeds. If it was at normal airplane altitude it would be going as fast as a stealth bomber. It seemed to be white without any wings.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2009-12-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 4685
Occurred: 1998-10-25 00:00 Local
Reported: 1998-10-29 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Pell City (33.56' 52"N - 86.15' 00" W), AL, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Commmercial pilot driving East on I-20, notice object out left window, object is small, bright pulsing white, headed toward ground at about 25 degree angle, high velocity, passes out of view behind trees, no crash.

I have driven well in excess of a million miles, have over 4,000 hours flight time and had never seen an object which I could not explain until I saw this one. This unidentified airborn object had no tail of debris such as that of a meteor. It was a bluish white like the light of a xenon strobe. It did not flash, rather it pulsed off like a strobe pulses on. It looked like a "plasma sphere". I have no way to perceive it's distance nor it's size. It was in excess of 2,000 feet away, as it passed behind trees which were at least that far away. Interestingly, I mentioned this to two other people an hour or so later, and one of them had seen what he described as the same type thing seen at the same time I saw it, yet he was 25 miles East of my location. For all I know we could have been the same object at some distance, since he and I both saw it in the NNE.

Posted 1998-11-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 133054
Occurred: 1997-03-15 01:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2017-03-09 09:48 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Pell City, AL, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Emitted beams

A fishing trip ends with a loud roar and a bright light waking me up in the night.

I was taking my normal spring break fishing trip at our lake house south of Pell City, near the Coosa River. The best way to explain this is to explain the lay of the land a bit. The property has a steep drive downward to the house. Being fairly remote in the woods, trees are everywhere and right against the driveway. We had wooden steps going up to the 'front door' of the house and the wooden porch continued and wound around to the actual front of the second floor of the house. Above those steps on the top (Second) floor is the window of the room I was sleeping in.

I woke up in the middle of the night just after midnight. Light was flooding the room. There was a noise very loud. Is was a roaring near deafening roar like that of a jet engine. What in very unusual about this, is the lighting. It seemed to come from everywhere. I never moved. I barely breathed. I was simply struck with fear as if someone was searching for something or someone. At first, I thought it was a truck from the street, but that did not match up. If a car was on the drive way it would have to be a good ways behind the house to even attempt to angle the headlights into the window of my room which was parallel with the driveway.

There was another mystery, the noise. I remember thinking, maybe it's the police looking for someone. But that did not make sense either, because they would be using a helicopter over the forest. What ever it was, was not making the normal whup-whup of a helicopter. This was a loud roar. Though I could not see it, I seriously felt as if it was below the tree line in order to highlight the window. The trees were too high by the house for any helicopter to safely be right above with all the trees around it. It seemed to stay a long time, which ended up being around 10 minutes simply shining a very bright light on the whole house and through the window right above my head. This will sound very odd, but it seemed! as if the house was 'being scanned' though no effects or any other lighting was seen. I remember being simply too scared to move, and too scared to breathe. I remember thinking thought, "There is no one here."

I cannot say for sure, but it felt as if I was hearing other thoughts within my own. I really expected to see something walk right down the hallway. Though I never heard walking on the porch, it was as if the idea was placed there like 'we should'. Though I never left the bed, I felt as if my perception was changing in some way. It was very strange. It was as if this mystery craft was right next to the house hovering above the street and below the tree line. I distinctly remember thinking to myself, "If I don't breathe maybe they will go away." I was saying the Lord's Prayer, and other silent prayers, and trying so hard to not breathe. Here is the rub, that made me go, "What the?" The roar became even louder, and then the craft or whatever it was, was simply gone. It left almost instantaneously! . The Doppler Effect was almost missing here, thought I heard it 'leave'. There was no hearing anything lift off. No tires crunching the gravel or concrete. It went from being there, to simply not being there. I had the hardest time going back to bed that night afterwards. The next morning I checked the porch and the tree branches hanging over the driveway. Everything seemed normal. What woke me up that night, I am still completely clueless. I never stayed up there alone to go fishing after that.




NUFORC Note:

Source of report indicates that the date is approximate. PD


Posted 2017-03-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 183114
Occurred: 1981-03-13 12:58 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2024-09-20 10:46 Pacific
Duration: Less than 10 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Pell City, AL, USA
Location details: Over a neighbors barn, then directly behind our house we had a barn which is no longer there.

Shape: Rectangle
Color: Mirror or silver
Estimated Size: 3 feet high and 30-40 feet wide
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: North east, then east.
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: 500 ft
Estimated Speed: Blink of an eye


3' high x 40' wide, silvery or mirror, no lights, no sound, no vibration, quick moving.

I was 14 years old and home from school on that day, I am 57 now. I went into the kitchen and felt a pull towards the window, and looked outside. I saw this huge shiny flat thing over my neighbor's big barn. The neighbors barn was up a little side road and to the left I will guess about 1/4 mile away but maybe not that far.

I watched it, blinked my eyes and it was over our barn directly behind our home (barn is no longer there). It stayed there a few minutes, I tried hard not to blink as I stood there with my mouth and eyes wide open, and watched it shoot straight up. It was gone. I called my mom at work and we talked about it when she and dad got home. He advised me not to repeat my story to anyone, telling me it was probably a military aircraft.

Posted 2024-09-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 68593
Occurred: 1966-10-10 20:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2009-02-12 11:17 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 6

Location: Pell City, AL, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

Strobe Lighted disk shape object observed close, at low speeds, and low altitude in Oct 1966 in Pell City Alabama

On a clear night in October 1966 I was at my Grandfathers' house with my whole family on Fathers' side. As we admired the clear cool October sky, stars clear, moon bright and vivid, one of my family members pointed north just above the trees and said,"look at that plane, its flying just above the trees".

Everyone's attention focused on the flickering lights as they appoached, no one spoke another word as we were all trying to bring into focus an airplane. That never happened and so no one spoke because no one knew what it was, even after it passed over.

The craft took a long time to arrive. I would estimate about 1 minute passed from the time we first saw it until the time it arrived over my Gradfathers' house because it was moving so slow. It was shaped like a plate, 3 times the size of my Grandfathers house, with strobe lights that went all the way around the craft changing from white around most of the craft to red, white, then red again before starting back to white. As if 2 lights in the rear were red seperated by one pulse of white, then back to white all the way around the rest of the craft very rapidly.

The craft was solid and the moonlight made the top of the craft appear a blue/white color and moved slowly and rose a bit to clear the higher ground and trees to the south of us over my aunt's house. The craft was completely silent and was flying so slow I thought it would fall out of the sky on top of us at any moment. That was my biggest fear at the time. That it might just fall on us. It was so big and slow.

I have the benefit of having my parents and relatives there. We discuss it occassionally and re-confirm what we all saw for our own edification and satisfaction. If anyone else saw the craft, I woud love to hear about it.

My cousin said it was Easter 1966, she might be right as she is a little older than me. I think it was before Holloween in 1966, she disagrees. I think my time is correct because I remember giving my book report to my class before the holidays and that spring of 1967 I was silent about UFOs because of the reaction I received.

As a boy I had followed the US space program and knew I had seen nothing like this in my life up to that point or since.

In 2004, while serving as a Police Advisor for the Department of State in Iraq, I met a gentleman who was a retired Air Force Officer and told him my childhood experience and he laughed and said I know exactly what you saw. He called it the Lenticular Re-entry Device. He told me it was a round craft, powered by electricity generated by a nuclear power plant with a crew of 5. He said it remains classified to this day because of the power plant. He told me the craft was an experimental craft that carried a crew of 5 and was capable of carrying 2 nulear ordinance weapons and could acheive low earth orbit up to 200,000 feet. He drew mw a picture of it and it was similar but no way to say for sure it was the same thing I saw.

I remember vividly the experience and the experience there after as I did my next book report at school on the subject of UFOs and what I learned was ridicule comes fast for having seen something extrodinary that no one else had seen. I haven't spoke with many about it since then but those that were there with me at the time and the exception of others who have shared similar experiences as I had.

I carry a camera with me everywhere and have for years now hoping that by chance I catch another glimpse of such an object and snap a photo but no such luck so far. When your 12 years old you think, ok, I'll see another one soon, it was right there at Grandpas house.

I am a retired Chief of Police now and served as a Police Advisor in Iraq and Afghanistan.

My email address: ((e-address deleted)) if you have info about this sighting.




NUFORC Note:

Source of report indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2009-03-19