Gainesville, GA, USA
My sister yelled what is that and pointed up we looked and quickly noticed six or seven red lights.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-25
- Where
- Gainesville, GA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 34.298, -83.824 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-gainesville-ga-2015-e425f9
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
- Gainesville, GA shows up 32 times across the archive.
- 137 reports came from Georgia in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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