Fort Payne, AL, USA
Flashing white, blue ,red and green lights over Fort Payne AL. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Sirius?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2011-04-13
- Where
- Fort Payne, AL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 34.444, -85.720 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-fort-payne-al-2011-2e9138
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
- This is one of 13 reports logged in Fort Payne, AL.
- This case is one of 40 Alabama reports filed in 2011.
- Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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