Disk over Columbia, AL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
at Farley Nuclear plant, I was walking outside and saw a slow moving object flying at a slow speed not too far in the sky. It startled me and caught me off guard; however, when I told someone to look, it quickly flew out of the atmosphere at lightning speed. It was sphere-shaped and had a red and bright blue color trailing it.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #160479). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-11-04 → 2020-11-21
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November 13, 2014 · 5:00 PM · FORMATION
Columbia, AL
I approach everything with skepticism. I'll be the first to call most "sightings" a big pile of bologna. But this report, is entirely accurate. This report, I saw with my own eyes. Let me get started by explaining the "sighting" in its entirety. It was just before sunset, I was facing east looking toward a tree line. Out of my peripheral vision I noticed 4-5 orange glowing "orbs" in the cloud line. They seemed to be moving in some type of formation, appearing and reappearing at will. They "danced" around in what I would describe as a figure eight like motion for the majority of the time I was able to see them. One of the "orbs" shot across the entire sky until no longer visible, followed by the remaining anomalies at an alarming rate of speed. They were there, and then they were just gone. No sound, no reflection , no nothing, just gone. Ok, so no big deal right? Unless I were to take you back to my childhood, in which I saw the exact same type of anomaly, but not yet old enough to understand the difference. I would not have even thought to much about it, had it not been for a Youtube.com video I recently viewed, depicting the exact same experience I have mentioned here.
August 16, 1985 · 7:00 PM · OTHER
Columbia, AL
"I don't know what the hell that is"