Birmingham, AL, USA
Object that is the size of a small star changed size, light intensity, and rapidly dropped to the ground after 40 seconds of observatio
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-12-14
- Where
- Birmingham, AL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 33.521, -86.802 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-birmingham-al-2017-6e6385
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
- Birmingham, AL shows up 79 times across the archive.
- 64 reports came from Alabama in 2017.
- 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.