CaseCircle2010

Oxford, AL, USA

IT LOOKED LIKE A BALL OF Fire ABOUT THE SIZE OF A SOFTBALL IT CAME DOWN AT A ANGEL THEN STRAITEND AND WHENT ABOUT 50 FEET UP AND OVER S

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 (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-11-18
Where
Oxford, AL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 MIN
Geo
33.614, -85.835 · exact
Slug
circle-over-oxford-al-2010-b47dab
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 6 reports logged in Oxford, AL.
  • This case is one of 26 Alabama reports filed in 2010.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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