CaseFireball2013

Wedowee, AL, USA

Most of my family were celebrating Memorial Day weekend at Lake Wedowee, located in Alabama when Sunday night (5-26-13) one family memb

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-05-26
Where
Wedowee, AL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
33.309, -85.485 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-wedowee-al-2013-ce61f6
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…

In context

  • Wedowee, AL has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 87 reports from Alabama.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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