CaseLight2018

Theodore, AL, USA

Driving home, saw 4 orange lights in the sky. 3 small 1 big. Thought it was a trick of light until I saw it again further up the rd..

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-04-24
Where
Theodore, AL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
Seconds
Geo
30.548, -88.175 · exact
Slug
light-over-theodore-al-2018-fc268b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Theodore, AL shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 30 reports came from Alabama in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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