CaseLight2017

Jefferson, GA, USA

South of I-85 near Jefferson, GA, I saw a bright light fall from sky; no sound.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-04-17
Where
Jefferson, GA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
34.117, -83.572 · exact
Slug
light-over-jefferson-ga-2017-fa214d
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

  • This is one of 11 reports logged in Jefferson, GA.
  • This case is one of 121 Georgia reports filed in 2017.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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