Anniston, AL, USA
1 bright light was seen North North west of location near 431/Bynum Leatherwood road. The light was motionless for about 18 min and the
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-12-14
- Where
- Anniston, AL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 33.660, -85.832 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-anniston-al-2008-a5fe06
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 15 reports logged in Anniston, AL.
- This case is one of 51 Alabama reports filed in 2008.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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