CaseLight2017

Clio, AL, USA

Me and a friend witnessed a ball of light moving intelligently before suddenly vanishing.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (89 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-01-29
Where
Clio, AL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 minute
Geo
31.709, -85.611 · exact
Slug
light-over-clio-al-2017-4d8420
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…

In context

  • Clio, AL shows up 1 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

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