Phenix city, AL, USA
I was heading to work around 05:50 when I spotted a different looking object in the sky. It looked nothing like an aircraft carrier. I
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-01-06
- Where
- Phenix city, AL, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 1 minutes
- Geo
- 32.471, -85.001 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-phenix-city-al-2016-c3590b
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 14 reports logged in Phenix city, AL.
- This case is one of 50 Alabama reports filed in 2016.
- Cone craft made up 0.4% of 2010s reports, vs 0.4% across the whole archive.
Report
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