Clanton, AL, USA
Late in the day right before dark I was sitting in my firepit on the lake and I noticed this object come across the sky. I will submit
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-05-08
- Where
- Clanton, AL, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 32.839, -86.629 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-clanton-al-2019-1b0559
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
- Clanton, AL shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 62 reports came from Alabama in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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