Decatur, AL, USA
Coming from Huntsville and saw like a white cylinder hovering in the sky. Thought it may have been plane but it didn't move. Thought it
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-05-15
- Where
- Decatur, AL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 34.606, -86.983 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-decatur-al-2016-76a163
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
- Decatur, AL has 10 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 50 reports from Alabama.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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