Gulf Shores, AL, USA
Reddish-orange orbs - believe they were Chinese lanterns launched from the beach
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-08-02
- Where
- Gulf Shores, AL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 30.246, -87.701 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-gulf-shores-al-2013-f010ae
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
- This is one of 25 reports logged in Gulf Shores, AL.
- This case is one of 87 Alabama reports filed in 2013.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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