Somerville, AL, USA
UFO birds suddenly increase in numbers from 15 to 74. ((NUFORC Note: Photos from witness indicate flocks of birds. PD))
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 14400s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-10-18
- Where
- Somerville, AL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Geo
- 34.473, -86.799 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-somerville-al-2014-03d324
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
- Somerville, AL shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 130 reports came from Alabama in 2014.
- 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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