CaseCircle2011
Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
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Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (9 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-10-27
- Where
- Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 33.210, -87.569 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-tuscaloosa-al-2011-700f84
Wave
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
- This is one of 24 reports logged in Tuscaloosa, AL.
- This case is one of 40 Alabama reports filed in 2011.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
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.