Atlanta, GA, USA
Around midnight, two witnesses observed a bright light in the sky that, upon observation, appeared to be a large and wingless aircraft.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-06-07
- Where
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- <1m
- Geo
- 33.749, -84.388 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-atlanta-ga-2008-eb0255
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
- Atlanta, GA shows up 155 times across the archive.
- 103 reports came from Georgia in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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