Triangle over McKenzie, AL

The report, as filed

We were driving southbound on I-10 past the Grace/ Garland exits. I (driver) noticed a faint light about a mile down. We were probably driving about 65mph due to us hailing a pretty heavy trailer. Although faint, it was pretty easy to notice considering the lack of manmade light source around that area. The object was right, RIGHT above the tree line. As we gained, I saw the ROUNDED triangular shape. 3 lights on each corner also were now in sight. This is when I realized it was something worth pointing out. I pointed at it and said, “Um, what is that?”. My colleague also expressed the same question. About 100 yards and closing - I realize the initial glow I saw was centralized, white, with a faint hint of blue and I could now see a whispy like fog coming off of it. Of course with the amount of drones flying around these days, it was my second thought, following random-unnecessarily high-interstate-light pole. 50 yds away (slowed down to 50 MPH - I noticed it was slowly hovering about 10MPH, so we didn’t see it was actually moving until we were close. we could now see that it was far too large to be a light pole or drone, yet too small to be a plane or jet, to our knowledge. We continued asking the same question to each other. We agreed about the sizing, glowing, hovering, and movement speed. I proclaimed, “I can’t identify that!”, nervously laughing. I knew that this was important and wanted to pull over, but my passenger urged me to continue driving due to the coned off construction lane we were in. We would have been stopped on the interstate with vehicles a mile behind us inbound. My background with this is that I’ve heard 2 stories of sightings, which came from pretty truthful sources. It always intrigued me and I was looking forward to it. This excited/ perplexed me. I was disappointed to not stop and take a fixated look at it. I first looked up military bases around the area and there were some, but not in the immediate vicinity. I didn’t realize you could sophisticatedly report on a site like this, until I dug a little further. I’ve been thinking about it daily! I have shared with some people. Many were excited to hear about it in the details I could provide, especially with a second witness testimony.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #145034). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.