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Fireball over Spanish Fort, AL

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Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #121503). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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July 31, 2020 · 11:00 PM · CHANGING

Spanish Fort, AL

I was sitting, smoking in my garage when I noticed two "stars". This was interesting to me because the placement of the stars in the treetops resembled the eyes of the sloth from the cartoon ice age. I laughed to myself until the stars began to move from their positions. At this point, I played my head back against my chair to gauge whether what I was seeing was seemingly moving due to my head not remaining still. The left star vanished in the treetops. The right star began to change from one solid point of light into three, in a triangle formation. At this point, the lights began to grow closer. There were three lights in a triangle formation but one light, the one pointing at me, grew brighter. It shifted throughout the treetops several times. It grew brighter and seemed to be getting a closer perspective each time it moved. At this point, I had no idea what I was witnessing. I thought ufo and I thought American military. It shifted from on! e point in the treetops to another. I could not comprehend what I was witnessing, so I laughed, waved and gave a middle finger to it. It "refocused" through the treetops twice. Each time it seemed to focus on me I smiled and laughed at it. My mind could not comprehend. The triangular shape then appeared to rotate opposite to me and to my astonishment there appeared to be engines of some type, burn and begin to rise vertically and subsequently began to arc as if it were following the earth's atmosphere. It continued to rise vertically and at this point, I sat up in my chair in order to follow the arc. It continued until it was out of sight. I can in no way comprehend what I witnessed.

July 21, 2016 · 10:10 PM · TRIANGLE

Spanish Fort, AL

I heard a very loud and deep sounding noise overhead, as I was doing some last minute lock up before bedtime. I ran to where the noise was coming from and saw three bright lights. They did not appear to look like any aircraft I had seen, nor did they sound like any I heard before. The walls in my home had shook and I thought maybe a plane was crashing, but the three lights just kept moving on. The object looked dark against the full moon, just east of it. My husband said that it may have been military aircraft, but, the sound was not that of jets or a propeller plane. My next door neighbor also ran outside to check on it. It took all of three minutes and the event was over .

April 10, 2012 · 8:10 PM · DIAMOND