CaseUnknown1996
Birmingham, AL, USA
Pastor repts. seeing a "bright ball of fire w/ speed of a falling star" streak W to E. Slows, stops, turns 180 deg., shoots to NW.
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: 105s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-12-11
- Where
- Birmingham, AL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 105 sec.
- Geo
- 33.521, -86.802 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-birmingham-al-1996-bd9835
In context
- This is one of 79 reports logged in Birmingham, AL.
- This case is one of 8 Alabama reports filed in 1996.
Report
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