Vance, AL, USA
Strange light above Vance/Mccalla. ((NUFORC Note: Probable sighting of Mars, we susptect. PD))
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (34 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2018-07-17
- Where
- Vance, AL, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- >2 hours
- Geo
- 33.174, -87.234 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-vance-al-2018-59479e
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
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Vance, AL.
- This case is one of 30 Alabama reports filed in 2018.
- Chevron craft made up 1.1% of 2010s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.
Report
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