UFOMYST
CaseLight2011

Athens (Hwy 72 W), AL, USA

Huge, motionless, multicolored ball of light in tree lines.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-08-23
Where
Athens (Hwy 72 W), AL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
approx. 10 min.
Geo
34.802, -86.972 · exact
Slug
light-over-athens-hwy-72-w-al-2011-0ff468
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Athens (Hwy 72 W), AL shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 40 reports came from Alabama in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

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.