CaseCircle2014

Calera, AL, USA

Orange/red sphere with blue or green outline or ring. Moved very slowly to the west, then disappeared.

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-05-07
Where
Calera, AL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3-4 minutes
Geo
33.103, -86.754 · exact
Slug
circle-over-calera-al-2014-d6b24b
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…

In context

  • This is one of 3 reports logged in Calera, AL.
  • This case is one of 130 Alabama reports filed in 2014.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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