Helena, AL, USA
Two adults witness boomerang-shaped object during a strange sequence of events
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-05-03
- Where
- Helena, AL, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 33.296, -86.844 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-helena-al-2004-521517
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 8 documented reports from Helena, AL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Alabama logged 27 sightings in 2004.
- Chevron sightings ran at 1.2% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.1%).
Report
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