Gulf Shores, AL, USA
Brightly lighted Object appeared total of 6-8 times in different locations in night sky over ocean for few seconds and disappeared
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-10-11
- Where
- Gulf Shores, AL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30 min.
- Geo
- 30.246, -87.701 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-gulf-shores-al-2007-b8ba2b
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 25 reports logged in Gulf Shores, AL.
- This case is one of 53 Alabama reports filed in 2007.
- Disk craft made up 6.5% of 2000s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.