Augusta, GA, USA
Jetblack/Triangle/cone shaped/I could hear it before I saw it/No markings 10-20,000 ft altitude.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-05-18
- Where
- Augusta, GA, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 33.471, -81.975 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-augusta-ga-2015-fd329b
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
- This is one of 49 reports logged in Augusta, GA.
- This case is one of 137 Georgia reports filed in 2015.
- Cone craft made up 0.4% of 2010s reports, vs 0.4% across the whole archive.
Report
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