Decatur, AL, USA
Red, White, and Blue object, moving and gliding with sudun stops, below Orion's Belt. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius?? PD))
Report quality: Low29/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2012-10-21
- Where
- Decatur, AL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- Now
- Geo
- 34.606, -86.983 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-decatur-al-2012-9db773
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
- Decatur, AL shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 67 reports came from Alabama in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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