Cullman, AL, USA
They moved west to east and covered the entire skyline in 4 seconds. They appeared to be at a high altitude and were only not emitting
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-10-21
- Where
- Cullman, AL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 34.175, -86.844 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-cullman-al-2016-f87c16
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
- Cullman, AL shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 50 reports came from Alabama in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
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.