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UFOs Spotted in Gulf Shores
UFO Spotted in Gulf
Shores, Alabama's
Northern Cities Have
Most Reports of UFOs
By Robert C. Weich III
A UFO was spotted last Thursday (June 4 2015)
evening by an observer in Gulf Shores,
Alabama. The observer claimed to have seen a
ball of light but heard no sound, Alabama Media
Group reported.
The observer also said the object
zoomed around the sky, changing elevation and
speed and following the sighting, a military jet
appeared, the report details.
While playing volleyball, he saw
periodic flashes of silent heat lightning in the
sky. After those flashes, he saw a ball of light
come out of a cloud.
The observer said the object was the
size, brightness and color of a planet in the sky, the renowned Air Force investigation of UFOs,
and it was white in color and had a consistent
light that was not blinking.
Originally the observer said the object
was 200 yards away from him, above a seven or
eight story pink building. Apparently the object
moved toward him for about 100 yards and was
then above a seven or eight story tan building.
The object then shifted back to the west at the
point he originally saw it and dropped in
elevation to about 100 feet. Finally, he said the
object increased its speed and elevation and
went back into the clouds.
He concluded that the light kept
showing from the object for a short bit of time
before becoming blurred and then no longer
visible.
Although Gulf Shores sits in the
southern tip of Alabama, most UFO reports in
Alabama come from the northern portion of the
state.
The top nine Alabama cities for reporting UFOs
are as follows:
1. Huntsville - 60
2. Birmingham - 50
3. Madison - 38
4. Gulf Shores/Orange Beach area - 36
5. Mobile/Dauphin Island - 29
6. Montgomery - 25
7. Phenix City - 15
8. Hoover - 13
9. Cullman - 10
Huntsville and nearby Madison are
particularly high in reports of UFOs. The two
cities combined have almost 100 reported UFOs
since 1961. This could be attributed to military
testing done at Redstone Arsenal being
mistaken as UFOs. []
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By Tom Emery For the Journal-Courier
The people of Illinois take a beating these days,
as the state ranks high in corruption and low in
budget stability. But in one notable category,
Illinois stands among national leaders.
Since 1950, the Land of Lincoln is sixth
in the highest number of sightings of
unidentified flying objects, the most of any
Midwestern state.
With 3,081 reported sightings, Illinois
trails only California, Florida, Washington,
Texas and New York.
And when it comes to reports in Illinois, fishing at Schuy-Rush Lake.
Schuyler County leads the pack.
The statistics were revealed in the most
extensive release of government UFO files to
date. In January, some 136,000 pages of
declassified records from Project Blue Book,
were placed online.
Project Blue Book, based at Wright-
Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, recorded
12,618 reports of UFOs between 1947 and
1969. Most were easily explained, though 701
still are listed as “unidentified.”
More than ever, Americans are
convinced that aliens visit Earth. In 2012, a
National Geographic survey revealed that 36
percent of Americans believe in UFOs, with
only 17 percent disputing such a notion. The
rest – a whopping 47 percent – were undecided.
Some 80 percent of those surveyed think the
U.S. government has concealed information on
UFOs from the public.
The following year, a Huffington Post
survey found that 48 percent of American adults
were “open to the idea that alien spacecraft are
observing our planet,” with 35 percent
disagreeing. Men and women were nearly equal
in percentage of believers, though political
preference apparently influences UFO support.
The Huffington survey found that 58 percent of
Democrats call themselves believers, compared
to 37 percent of Republicans and 47 percent of
independents.
Illinois’ high ranking may be attributed
to several factors, including relative population. sometimes report strange lights in their
Of the leading 10 states for UFO reports, eight
are in the top 10 in population. California, for
instance, leads the nation in population with
38.3 million residents, and its 11,092 UFO
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reports are more than twice the number of the
next-highest state.
Water also may be a factor. UFO reports
tend to be clustered around large bodies of
water, a trait shared by nine of the top 10 states
for sightings. With Lake Michigan and the
Mississippi River, Illinois has plenty to attract
cosmic visitors looking for a scenic vista or a
cool drink.
Still, the Illinois county with the highest
number of relative sightings is Schuyler County,
with 67 sightings per 100,000 population.
Perhaps earthlings are not the only ones
interested in land prices and crop yields. Or,
maybe the extraterrestrials want to check out the
Winnebago County, in the landlocked
Rockford area, is second with 40 per 100,000.
chuyler County is not the only area
locale where UFOs have been reported. On
Nov. 19, 2012, an individual was driving home
from work and reported “four orange, flowing,
non-flickering spheres” on the east edge of
Jacksonville. The first of these spheres was
allegedly a few hundred feet above the
observer’s car.
Separate reports of UFOs in the
Jacksonville area also were made on
consecutive days on June 28 and 29, 2010.
At least two recent UFO reports in
Illinois have garnered national attention. In the
early morning hours of Jan. 5, 2000, a string of
local police officers on night patrol in
neighboring towns reported a well-lit triangular
object flying quietly at low altitudes over such
locations as Highland, Lebanon, Dupo,
Millstadt and O’Fallon. Dubbed the “St. Clair
Triangle,” the sighting has been the subject of
national television features and multiple
investigations by UFO enthusiasts.
On Nov. 7, 2006, mass reports of a
lighted, saucer-like phenomena over a
concourse of the United Airlines terminal at
O’Hare Airport in Chicago set the Windy City
abuzz. The alleged craft hovered for several
minutes before racing into the sky and leaving
what appeared to be a hole in the clouds.
Commercial and military pilots
airspace, though, as are sightings on the ground,
the extraterrestrial possibility of these objects is
hotly debated.
Interest in UFOs revives every few
years, sometimes with reported sightings. The
spike in the post-war era started with reports of
alleged UFO wreckage near Roswell, New
Mexico, in 1947. However, Roswell was hardly
the first alleged UFO incident, as some
researchers argue that strange phenomena in the
skies is reported in the Bible.
In 1896 and 1897, there was a spate of
UFO sightings across the nation, usually of
cigar-shaped lighted objects in the sky. On April
17, 1897, reports surfaced of an extraterrestrial
vehicle crash near Aurora, Texas, which
allegedly resulted in one alien casualty. Closer
to home, three men claimed to have seen a
cigar-shaped object with some sort of canopy
top and oars that landed in a field near Nilwood
in Macoupin County, Illinois, a mere two days
before the Aurora crash. Whether the incidents
are connected is not clear.
Tom Emery is a freelance writer and
historical researcher from Carlinville. []