McCalla, AL, USA
August 4, 2009, I spotted in the night sky what first thought was a star. ((NUFORC Note: I suspect a "twinkling" star. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (73 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2009-08-04
- Where
- McCalla, AL, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 33.349, -87.014 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-mccalla-al-2009-6fb337
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- One of 2 documented reports from McCalla, AL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Alabama logged 35 sightings in 2009.
- Changing sightings ran at 2.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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