Crane Hill, AL, USA
As I filled the dogs water bowl this morning I saw a bright violet flash in the the northern sky. The light was constant from sky…
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-10-22
- Where
- Crane Hill, AL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 34.094, -87.063 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-crane-hill-al-2015-b97e9f
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 1 reports logged in Crane Hill, AL.
- This case is one of 65 Alabama reports filed in 2015.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% 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.