Gainesville, GA, USA
We live North of Atlanta 40 miles, on Lake Lanier it came frome the south west to the north east very high, very fast no sound two whit
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-09-17
- Where
- Gainesville, GA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1.30
- Geo
- 34.298, -83.824 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-gainesville-ga-2006-0ef07f
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
- Gainesville, GA shows up 32 times across the archive.
- 77 reports came from Georgia in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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