Appearance / Description of Object(s)

At first, it looked like an orange carpet rising up from the depths. Then as it became clearer, it was obviously a rectagle shaped perimeter with radiased corners. The background color was Orange-yellow with drk brown pigmented camo shapes all-over it's surface. they seemed to be seared-into the thing....Not printed on...there seemed to be something at the stern like a propulsion system that made a little comotion...It was mired with sea-weeds and hard to describe...

Size of Object(s)

I was only 15 feet away from this thing, so my arms would bee all out to the sides...(giant fish style) it was 20-25 feet wide and 35 to 40 feet long.

Description of Area / Surroundings

No power plants...There are some bases in Florida some 30-40 miles away....It was a very public area right in the mouth of a major dock-harbor. On both sides of the waterway, people are on vacation at the many hotels and condos in both directions along the beaches. It was a sunny day with moderate water visability.

Full Description & Details

I was taking 2 kids fishing on a small pleasure boat out of Orange Beach in Gulf Shores

Alabama...It was a typical Summer day, sunny with a light chop on the water...only a few clouds in the sky about mid morning.....I captained the boat just a little ways outside the jetties of the harbor and cut the motor off near a large buoy since there were a lot of bait fish jumping. I began baiting

hooks when the boy standing next to me said "Mr. Steve, Mr. Steve!,...What's That!! At first I

ignored him cause I was busy.....But he kept on and so finally I looked towards where he was pointing....and DANG!! I thought "What the heck is THAT Thing?? I couldn't take my eyes off it.....It was about 35-40 feet long, 25feet across. The water all along it's perimeter

seemed to boil and produced a smoke-effect as it raised toward the surface...At first I could not see a shape or surface until it came closer to the waters plane. The boiling bubbles stopped. Now it seemed to suspend at 1half a foot to 2 feet below the surface right next to our vessel...about 15 feeet away...I watched it keenly for about 10 minutes. I figured Is it an animal? or a machine?? over and over These thoughts came in....I thought Is there a big net on board to catch it with? Maybe I could tie on a big hook and foul hook it...It was just to big....Bigger than our boat...So I couldn't bring it in.....I know it was someTHING! It looked to be flat in shape, I could not tell how thick it was from my perspective, But I saw right up close that it had an orange-ish yellow background color, and many little "camo" shapes all over it's surface....all brown and black and evenly spaced away from each other....similar to a burmese python skin witout any scales. Then, it slowly moved back down into the depths. I did see at the far end what looked to be a pile of sea weeds clumped at it's stern before it went down.....I worked as a graphic artist for a time and can make a perfect re-creation of what I saw if you would like.......Steven T.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

It may have been a sub of some kind.....but non like I have ever seen....Most subs don't come with Camo on the surface.

Witness Background

I work as a graphic artist and have a small business re-modeling homes. I used to be a technical writer....and have worked on some defense projects.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I have seen other objects in the sky of North Alabama.....I think most are top secret military craft not yet known to the public.

Other Comments

I felt I should report this sighting to someone since USO's are on the seen now...I know

I'm not the only one to have seen them.

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