As reported

Triangle over Guntersville, AL

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

The date and time is not exact. I was the shift supervisor at a chemical plant located on the banks of the Tennessee River. Mountains

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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October 8, 2023 · 7:40 PM · SPHERE

Guntersville, AL

I live on a small farm. We are always outside looking at the stars, as we are able to see constellations easily with it being so dark and far from city lights. On October 8, 2023, my family (husband, mother in law and son) and I were in the front yard just stargazing. What looked like a star was moving extremely fast while the others were still. I kept my eyes on it because I thought it was a shooting star. When it didn’t stop moving, I realized this was no shooting star. It wasn’t a plane, there were several of those out as well, all which had blinking lights. This had no blinking lights, and I watched it move SEVERAL miles in probably less than 10 seconds. Then it started moving in circles, very big circles, then it moved up, down did zigzags and this was all within just a few seconds. I sent my husband in the house to get a flashlight. As he was shining the flashlight toward the area we were seeing this at, the light reflected off a shiny “orb”. I had my phone out videoing the whole thing. We never could find it again. Later that night, I spent HOURS watching this video. Slowing it down, changing the saturation. What I found was much more interesting than what I had originally seen. After further observation, I noticed SEVERAL (7-8?) differently shaped objects flying in the direction of the shiny thing we had originally seen. I took screenshots of the video and was amazed at what I was seeing. I also see on the video an “object” that is shaped like an old “spinning top” toy, and after zooming and changing the saturation, I could also see 4 red lights on this one. The next night 10/9/23, I was curious to see if I could catch something 2 nights in a row. I saw 4 orb objects. One was moving in a straight line, it didn’t do anything interesting. My husband told me to look directly above us, where we saw 2 orb objects almost playing in the sky. They were headed right for each other. The last one I saw, I noticed a plane flying toward it but below it. When the plane was almost directly underneath it, it shot up hundreds of feet and then once the plane passed it moved back down. I also got this on video but it will only allow me to enter 4 photos/videos. I have many many more that I will gladly share if someone contacts me! The video that is included in this post is slowed down. You will first see the shiny object in the upper left reflecting off the flashlight. The last 20ish seconds of the video you will see several objects moving from right to left from the upper right and middle of video

June 14, 2022 · 8:35 PM · LIGHT

Guntersville, AL

We were on the lake in our kayaks waiting for the full moon to rise. It was about 8:35, the moon was supposed to rise at 8:45. The sun set was at 7:58 pm. My friend noticed a bright yellowish/white light on the water up the river from us. I responded that it’s probably a boat. The foothills surrounding the lake were blocking the moonrise so we had to keep waiting. We were slowly drifting towards the dam and there was a nice breeze. You can see the lights on the dam very well from that position, but the ball of light was coming from the other direction. My friend mentioned it again so I stared and thought it was odd, that a boat should have red/green bow lights on it and this didn’t. This thing was just a ball of light and it was silent, no boat motors. The moon finally peaked over the foothill and we were distracted taking pictures of the moon. We have pictures of the moon with the light on the water in it, I will include. Around 9:20 we started paddling back to the kayak launch at the dam and the ball of light was then moving slowly in our direction. We pulled our kayaks out at the launch and loaded them onto our vehicles. Then we took a couple more pictures of the moon. The light was there in one picture, then my friend suddenly said where did the light go? It had disappeared within seconds. We were once again distracted with the moon and not sure how the light disappeared. It wasn’t a boat, waverunner, or hovercraft because it was silent. It’s hard to judge the size because it was light. It moved VERY slow but steady. As soon as we noticed it disappeared, we jumped in our vehicles and left. It was about 9:45. I’m including three photos. One when it was up river and we first noticed it. One when it was nearing us at the dam and the shot right when it disappeared.

November 27, 2013 · 10:40 PM · FORMATION