UFOMYST
CaseDisk2008

Gainesville, GA, USA

Caught a UFO object in a photo. ((NUFORC Note: Probably a bird in flight. PD))

Report quality: Low26/100

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
  • Brief witness text (31 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
2008-07-04
Where
Gainesville, GA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
Don't know
Geo
34.298, -83.824 · exact
Slug
disk-over-gainesville-ga-2008-4210c7
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 32 documented reports from Gainesville, GA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Georgia logged 103 sightings in 2008.
  • Disk sightings ran at 6.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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