Ft. Oglethorpe, GA, USA
a descending "set" of white airplane type lights visible for 3 or 4 seconds and then vanishing before reaching the horizon
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 (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-01-16
- Where
- Ft. Oglethorpe, GA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 4 sec.
- Geo
- 34.949, -85.257 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-ft-oglethorpe-ga-2011-3c95fc
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
- Ft. Oglethorpe, GA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 94 reports from Georgia.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure 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.