Athens, GA, USA
Reddish-orange glowing object, multiple witnesses, athens, GA, July 4th, possible UFO.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-07-04
- Where
- Athens, GA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 33.961, -83.378 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-athens-ga-2008-fae63e
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
July 2008 was a busy month for Athens, GA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 34 reports logged in Athens, GA.
- This case is one of 103 Georgia 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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