UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2005

Smiths, AL, USA

Witness hears strange object pass overhead.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-01-12
Where
Smiths, AL, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
42.323, -90.431 · fallback
Slug
unknown-over-smiths-al-2005-19a995
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Smiths, AL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Alabama logged 38 sightings in 2005.

Report

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