CaseCigar2007
Alabama (in-flight @ 35,000'), GA, USA
Saw something at 30,000 feet
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (28 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-01-28
- Where
- Alabama (in-flight @ 35,000'), GA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 7 sec
- Geo
- 43.096, -78.391 · fallback
- Slug
- cigar-over-alabama-in-flight-35-000-ga-2007-05eff5
Wave
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
- Alabama (in-flight @ 35,000'), GA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 106 reports came from Georgia in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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