UFOMYST
CaseCircle2020

AL, USA

Report was received from a pilot who was climbing to altitude. He reported seeing a string of approx. 12 white lights. ((satellites??))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (118 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-07
Where
AL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
—
Slug
circle-over-al-2020-c1d094
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

  • This case is one of 62 Alabama reports filed in 2020.
  • Circle craft made up 11.9% of 2020s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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