UFO Sighting - Decatur, Alabama

Alright, now this one is close to home for me, since Decatur is only about an hour's drive from where I live. So naturally, this one caught my eye right away.

(There is a video at the site).

From WSFA 12 News in Montgomery, Alabama:

What was it last night around Decatur that had people talking?

Friday night and into today, our newsroom has been flooded with people inquiring about a strange sighting in the western sky.

What did people see?

What we do know is that an object was in the sky that night. What it was is the focus of tonight's WAFF 48 Investigators Report.

"I saw it coming thru the sky back that way and it".

Cody Terry was driving by the Aquadome Recreation Center Friday night in Decatur when he happened to look up in the sky and he notice something strange.

When it was coming through the sky, I really thought it was an airplane that lost control so I came to a complete stop on the road. When I got out and looked at it was no sound coming from it."

No sound, and he says it didn't appear to be an aircraft.

"It speed up to maybe two hundred miles per hour it went straight to the ground and disappeared."

Some people say they saw Med-Flight back here but some people say they saw something else.

Cody says he saw three military helicopters in the air and ambulance on the ground.

"We saw what was in the ambulance and to me it looked like what was a giant pearl and it was shiny. It put off kind of like a diamond type reflection on it"."

For now what ever was in the sky will remain a mystery.

WAFF 48 talked to the director of Med-Flight about an hour ago and he did confirm they had one helicopter in the area and no other helicopters were in the air around that time.

Another Silver Sphere Report

I received this report last night from a retired USAF pilot and current airline pilot. It is in response to a recent report from Anthony posted here on March 4, 2008.

It was around October 1975 in rural North Mississippi, four miles north of Batesville. I was about 16 years old at the time and was walking along the edge of a soybean field with my trusty .22 rifle squirrel hunting.

I heard a very loud high pitched buzzing sound (like a cicada in the trees--which it may have been) but then everything was silent--even the birds. I looked up over my shoulder and saw a silver sphere just hovering about 300 feet above the ground and 1/4 mile away. It just stayed there. I thought, "hey look, a weather balloon." but there wasn't anything hanging from the bottom. Not a weather balloon. No gondola, so it also wasn't a hot air balloon either. It was just there hovering silently.

Here's where I acted like a typical teenager. The .22 had a scope on it, so I looked at the sphere through the scope--looked like a silver ball. I decided, "what the heck" I squeezed off a shot thinking if it was a balloon, I would be able to retrieve it. It hovered for a few seconds more then slowly drifted up and out of sight. There were cumulus clouds in the sky that day and the sphere was going along the edge of them rising in a slightly erratic fashion. But I was able to keep it in sight while it rose due to the contrast of the white clouds.

The thing that still makes me wonder to this day is how readily I accepted what I saw and how I felt no alarm. Just as in Anthony's report, I never felt any compulsion to tell anyone, and never did for years.

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UFO Report: Strange Lights Over the North Fork of Long Island

I was sifting through some of the recent UFO reports I have received and came across one that didn't get posted for one reason or another. My sincere apologies to you Greg F., who sent this in on March 22, 2008. This should have been posted weeks ago:

I live on the North Fork of Long Island, and I have a big bay window in my bedroom. On most clear nights, I see what appears to be stars or planets in the north sky, about 45 to 70 degrees above the horizon. They seem normal, but if you look for a few moments you will see them move...up/down, side to side...almost like they're hovering...then in about 15 minutes they will have moved across my field of view. I don't know if they're UFO's but they're not planes/copters/stars/planets...

Additionally, about a week ago, about 3:00 AM, I woke up and saw a bright light moving south to north above the tree line, but many many mile away...it move steady, then stopped...moved again...stopped....moved steady...then disappeared...very strange...

Thought I was seeing things, but finally woke up my wife to watch, she is just as puzzled as me!!! Im 45, a police officer, she's 44, an office manager...both college educated, not kooks!!!

Greg F. from Aquebogue, NY

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Latest UFO Sightings For April 24, 2008

Looking for recent UFO sighting reports? Here are the latest UFO sightings as reported by Billy Booth at About.com:

California-03-28-08-At 8:05 PM, I was outside looking at the stars when I saw 2 to 3 red blinking lights. When I looked closer I noticed that there were 8 to 10 red blinking lights in a triangular formation.

They appeared to be high and fairly spread apart, but kept the triangular formation. There was a single plane flying in the same direction what seemed to be seconds after I lost sight of the red triangle shaped lights. source: www.mufon.com

Florida-03-29-08-We were at the beach having a bonfire, the sky was clear, and it was about 8:30 or 9:00 PM. I was looking up at the stars, and noticed a small red light (star?) and thought that it started moving. Then I noticed it was a really bright light that was moving, not the red light. It was moving northward and it seemed to be moving pretty fast.

I had everyone look up, and we were trying to figure out what it was. As it was moving across the sky heading to the north, it quickly changed directions and started moving eastward. It didn't turn, it moved quickly to the east and we continued watching it as it disappeared into the sky. It appeared to disappear into the stars.

I watched it until it could no longer be seen. We all deduced that it moved too fast and changed direction too fast to be a plane. Also, it was such a bright white light. We all tried to come up with a logical answer to what we were seeing but all we could figure out is what it wasn't-a plane, a satellite, or a comet... would love to know what it was. source: www.mufon.com

Missouri-04-05-08-I was walking into our bedroom to feed the baby, and also talking on the phone to my mom. I walked to the window (facing west) to shut the blind when I noticed a bright, yellowish light in the southwestern sky.

I was looking sort of catty-corned towards the Missouri river. I thought it was just an airplane at first, but it appeared to hover for around a minute. I watched it a little longer, and it seemed to waver and quiver around, so I figured it was probably a planet, since I've seen Venus appear to do similar things due to atmospheric distortion.

As I watched, the light sunk below the tree line. When this happened, I got off the phone in order to pay attention to this light better. As I watched, I could see the light moving back and forth and up and down behind the trees. I'm not sure just how long I watched it, but then the light emerged from the trees at about treetop level and started across the road and into the field, heading directly towards our house (the tree line is maybe about 300 yards from us).

The light appeared to be of a diamond-shape, composed of 3 or 4 smaller yellowish lights, and there was no noise associated with it. When I saw it start towards the house, I yelled and shut the blind as fast as I could. My husband heard me yell, and asked what was going on. I ran into the living room and told him what I saw, so we both went outside to look. By the time we got outside, the light was gone. source: www.mufon.com

Pennsylvania-04-07-08-It was between 1:00 and 1:15 AM, on the morning of April 7, 2008. I was in my car driving around the neighborhood looking for my cat. I saw a red light about the size of two quarters behind the trees, and it was moving. It pulsed. I was curious and followed it to get a closer look. It crossed over Rt. 309 over behind WalMart, and then I couldn't follow it anymore as the road ended and it eventually was out of sight.

It had a really bright, big red light and some smaller white lights and some other colors-I couldn't tell exactly what the other colors were as it moved quickly and then I lost sight of it. It was pretty low as it appeared to be behind trees. The red light pulsed and the other lights twinkled and changed color rapidly. source: www.mufon.com

South Wales-04-02-08-I was walking our dogs with my mother in the countryside not far from our home in Penperlleni, South Wales at 10:20 PM. It was just starting to get dark and we saw what we initially thought was a really bright star. We were then standing still looking at it, and we realized it was moving. It was bigger than the few other stars that were out and a lot brighter.

It was moving at a fast, steady pace at what looked to be a high altitude. Unlike shooting stars or comets, it did not have a tail, it was very similar to a star, only brighter. An aircraft was nearby, and looked like it was at the same altitude. But, this thing was bigger than the aircraft and faster.

After a couple of minutes, it went into the clouds and was out of sight. After speaking to a few people and watching videos on youtube.com, I thought it could be a satellite, although I really have no idea what it was, and neither does my mother. I was pretty excited after seeing it, but definitely felt on guard the rest of the way home. After seeing it, there appeared to be a lot of aircraft around that area, although that could have easily just been a coincidence. source: www.mufon.com

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Monday's Mysterious Lights Over Phoenix Explained

It appears that the mysterious lights seen over Phoenix Monday evening have a fairly ordinary explanation. A man has claimed his neighbor launched several helium balloons tied to flares from his back porch. A pilot with the Phoenix Police Department says he also saw what appeared to be balloons with flares floating in the same area that night. The FAA says it is not investigating the incident. The witness says he thinks the neighbor did it as a joke. Several Arizona residents had reported seeing the strange lights in the sky over Phoenix Monday evening. A resident managed to capture the lights on camera. The lights were seen hovering over the city for roughly 13 minutes Monday night.

Here's one of the original news reports: