Sand Rock, AL, USA
I have had nearly the same experience twice, 3 to 4 days apart. The first time, I saw a bright white light in the sky exactly opposite
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-03-15
- Where
- Sand Rock, AL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- Few seconds
- Geo
- 34.243, -85.769 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-sand-rock-al-2017-48b08a
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
- Sand Rock, AL shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 64 reports came from Alabama in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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