UFO Report from Gordo, Alabama
Report: 1226
July 23, 2014
My sighting date isn’t accurate. But I hope that isn’t an important detail anyway in this story. I’m speaking about this now because for years I discredited this as a drone of some sort. Because of Google. I was living in Gordo AL, me and a friend were driving home from town on old highway 82 west bound. It was approximately 1 am. We turned down Hargrove road which is the road my driveway connects to. He lives about 3 miles away from my house but to get there we have to pass my driveway which is Huckleberry lane. Before my driveway the road has a slight left curve followed by decline in grade. At the bottom of this grade is my driveway. Then the grade proceeds to incline. I guess a good description would be my driveway is at the bottom of gulley. The end of my driveway has an orange street light which was illuminated at this time. As we proceeded around the curve and down the hill we spotted an orange ball of light exactly in the middle of the road around 20ft off the ground. We both spotted this at the same time. We were traveling around 40-50mph. As we proceeded to drive under the object I remember this inability to react. But consciously I was aware. But unable to react. I remember before this feeling we were approximately 30ft in distance from the object. As we proceeded approximately 30ft away from the object after we passed I was able to react again. I came to a stop, we looked back and there was nothing but I could tell by his reaction we had the same experience. He confirmed what we seen. At this moment we was 50-60ft from the event area. What I think makes my story unique is after around 2 minutes of us discussing this event we proceeded to turn around and replicate the event by driving back down the road because I assumed we saw a double image of the streetlight through the windshield. An illusion. We only tried once but we could not replicate the light we seen. We concluded it wasn’t the streetlight because this would be easily replicated. I proceeded to take him home and return home myself and I told my stepfather what happened. We are the only 3 that know this happened to us. I later googled orange ball of light and an article about drones appeared with a picture of the ball of light that had similar features of what we saw. I debunked it to this as it was relatively the same size as the ball of light we seen around 2ft - 3ft in diameter. I want to believe it was a drone but curiosity has got the best of me so I decided to release this story here. We still don’t know for sure what we saw but the sensations we experienced that night was unforgettable. I will never forget the feeling of consciously trying to react and being unable to. We was like moths to a flame. I wouldn’t say paralyzed but dazed would be a better description. And the snap back to being able to move and speak and finally say “bro did you see that” was surreal never felt anything like it. I would like to know what I saw and if this sensation has been reported before in UFO sightings because this is the only thing unexplainable to us. We didn’t lose track of time or anything this event lasted only 15-20 seconds maybe less. -J.W.