Buford, GA, USA
strobing lights appear near mall of georgia, go on for hours. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. Possible hoax. PD))
Report quality: Low5/100
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: 14400s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2007-10-22
- Where
- Buford, GA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 4+ hours
- Geo
- 34.121, -84.004 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-buford-ga-2007-61cd5b
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
- Buford, GA shows up 21 times across the archive.
- 106 reports came from Georgia in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 1.8% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
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.