Atlanta, GA, USA
Saw one bright white light while grilling dinner move from SW-NE possibly bright white. ((NUFORC Note: ISS. PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 52s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2017-01-29
- Where
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45-60 seconds
- Geo
- 33.749, -84.388 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-atlanta-ga-2017-bd3246
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
- Atlanta, GA has 155 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 121 reports from Georgia.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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