CaseCircle2016

Dothan, AL, USA

White light mostly,blue and red lights strobing around craft. Craft was itself cloaked. ((NUFORC Note: "Twinkling" star? PD))

Report quality: Low29/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (87 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
2016-10-30
Where
Dothan, AL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2:00-4:00
Geo
31.223, -85.390 · exact
Slug
circle-over-dothan-al-2016-2d9532
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…

In context

  • This is one of 28 reports logged in Dothan, AL.
  • This case is one of 50 Alabama reports filed in 2016.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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