Chelsea, AL, USA
2 white cigar-shaped objects flying parallel to each other (not touching) until they disappeared into the sun. Not moving fast.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-11-27
- Where
- Chelsea, AL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.340, -86.630 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-chelsea-al-2017-88efd4
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
- Chelsea, AL shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 64 reports came from Alabama in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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