Dauphin Island, AL, USA
8 very bright lights in formation of 4 and 4. Lights moved overhead with no noise and then disappeared with glow overhead.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-05-08
- Where
- Dauphin Island, AL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- ~1 minute
- Geo
- 30.255, -88.110 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-dauphin-island-al-2014-9ec4e4
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
- One of 7 documented reports from Dauphin Island, AL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Alabama logged 130 sightings in 2014.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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