Warthen, GA, USA
5-6 lights appeared to fly in formation and then battle each other in the sky.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-03-09
- Where
- Warthen, GA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 2 minutes approx.
- Geo
- 33.102, -82.804 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-warthen-ga-2004-8806f8
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
- Warthen, GA shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 67 reports came from Georgia in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 2.8% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.