Melbourne, AL, USA
Light in the night sky moved and stood still and flew around for many minutes.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-10-19
- Where
- Melbourne, AL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 28.084, -80.608 · fallback
- Slug
- light-over-melbourne-al-2019-10c96f
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Melbourne, AL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Alabama logged 62 sightings in 2019.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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