So you’ve seen something in the sky, but you’re not sure what it is.

The truth is out there.

That’s not just according to “The X-Files,” but also the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), which keeps a database of roughly 170,000 sightings of unidentified flying objects reported over the last 48 years.

Based in Washington State, NUFORC is a non-profit with a public database.

UFOs, or UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena), were the subject of hearings on Capitol Hill last month as lawmakers are considering declassifying information about them.

Three former military officers told Congress they saw unexplained flying objects and one of them claimed the U.S. government is secretly holding extraterrestrial wreckage.

According to NUFORC, it “makes no claims as to the validity of the information in any of these reports,” but obvious hoaxes have been omitted, it says.

It also cautions those submitting reports not to confuse UFOs with starlink satellites, Venus and Jupiter sightings, or objects that appear in photos but are not visible to the naked eye.

California leads the nation in sightings, with almost 16,000. Florida is second, with a little more than 8,000.

So how many times have Alabamians spotted something unexplained?

According to NUFORC, it has documented 1,364 sightings originating from the state, the oldest dating from the 1930s. Huntsville, Alabama’s Rocket City, has seen 107 sightings.

As for 2023, there have been 32, as of Aug. 9. Sightings lasted from a few seconds to as long as three hours.

Notations range from a “really weird” sighting in Hoover, to a daytime sighting of a chevron-shaped craft in Fultondale “surrounded by a clear bubble around it with a mist swirling and trailing a short distance behind it.”

There are only four reports listed from Fyffe, the DeKalb County town known as the state’s UFO capital, and none of its listed sightings include the fabled 1989 outbreak.