Cartersville, GA, USA
IT WAS A CLOUDY NIGHT WHEN 7 PEOPLE SAW SEVERAL DOZEN OR MORE DOTS IN THE SKY FLYING FROMEAST TO WEST IN PATTERNS AND RANDOMLY OVER NO
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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-01-22
- Where
- Cartersville, GA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 40 MINUTES
- Geo
- 34.165, -84.802 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-cartersville-ga-2005-7e33fe
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
- Cartersville, GA shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 74 reports came from Georgia in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.