Athens, GA, USA
I saw a silent orange/red pulsing light move across the sky slowly, hover, change color twice, and disgorge a smaller pulsing light.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-07-05
- Where
- Athens, GA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3-5 min
- Geo
- 33.961, -83.378 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-athens-ga-2008-9ca10b
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Athens, GA reports filed in July 2008.
In context
- Athens, GA shows up 34 times across the archive.
- 103 reports came from Georgia in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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