Athens, GA, USA
Solid red light moving slowly across sky, at times had white things coming off of it as if it was falling off.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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 (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-09-03
- Where
- Athens, GA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 33.961, -83.378 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-athens-ga-2008-b5df8b
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
- One of 34 documented reports from Athens, GA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Georgia logged 103 sightings in 2008.
Report
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