CaseLight1971
Cherokee, AL, USA
i was 13 when this event (i am 43 now ). we were returning home from visting friends when i was looking out at the sky. i saw a bright
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-05-01
- Where
- Cherokee, AL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 mins
- Geo
- 34.757, -87.973 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-cherokee-al-1971-1431fd
In context
- Cherokee, AL has 2 sightings on file here.
- 1971 brought 3 reports from Alabama.
- The 1970s skewed 11.6% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
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.