CaseSphere2012

Albany, GA, USA

Spherical stationary object with flashing green and red lights. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of the star, 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: 3000s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (63 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
2012-01-09
Where
Albany, GA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
50 min
Geo
31.579, -84.156 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-albany-ga-2012-7a6e2a
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

  • Albany, GA has 10 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 126 reports from Georgia.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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