Madison, AL, USA
A formation of four to five lights that for at least an hour would circle around each other, then dash off in different directions.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-08-27
- Where
- Madison, AL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 34.699, -86.748 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-madison-al-2006-f50998
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
- One of 33 documented reports from Madison, AL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Alabama logged 38 sightings in 2006.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 3.3%).
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.