UFOMYST
CaseCircle2017

Dora, AL, USA

At about 7:30 PM, I saw approximately 50 circular objects with red, green, blue and white pulsating lights, moving very slowly.

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 18000s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2017-10-17
Where
Dora, AL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 hours
Geo
33.729, -87.090 · exact
Slug
circle-over-dora-al-2017-24268d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Dora, AL logged 3 reports in the single month of October 2017.

In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Dora, AL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Alabama logged 64 sightings in 2017.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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