Fort Payne, AL, USA
I saw it on my security camera.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (31 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-01-18
- Where
- Fort Payne, AL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 34.444, -85.720 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-fort-payne-al-2022-c4a2fb
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…
Local cluster
Fort Payne, AL logged 3 reports in the single month of January 2022.
In context
- One of 13 documented reports from Fort Payne, AL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Alabama logged 28 sightings in 2022.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 1.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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