CaseCircle2008

Lanett, AL, USA

((HOAX??)) Flying, pulsating object hovering above cow pasture.

Report quality: Low18/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2008-03-22
Where
Lanett, AL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 min
Geo
32.869, -85.191 · exact
Slug
circle-over-lanett-al-2008-b84102
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

  • Lanett, AL has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 51 reports from Alabama.
  • The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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