Athens, AL, USA
Diamond-shaped craft points up and down multiple colored lights Red being most outstanding and brightest others where clear to yellow.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-12-08
- Where
- Athens, AL, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 34.802, -86.972 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-athens-al-2015-fc1b6c
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
- Athens, AL shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 65 reports came from Alabama in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
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.