UFOMYST
CaseFireball2006

Birmingham, AL, USA

bright white-greenish object appears, hovers in place, quickly travels zig zag pattern and vanishes

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-11-15
Where
Birmingham, AL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10-15 Seconds
Geo
33.521, -86.802 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-birmingham-al-2006-6d00a5
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

8 reports came out of Birmingham, AL in November 2006 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Birmingham, AL has 79 sightings on file here.
  • 2006 brought 38 reports from Alabama.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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