UFOMYST
CaseOther2021

Altoona, AL, USA

Orbital object over N. Alabama that twice came to stop and made sudden course corrections

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (89 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-04-11
Where
Altoona, AL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
34.026, -86.326 · exact
Slug
other-over-altoona-al-2021-21498a
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…

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In context

  • Altoona, AL has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2021 brought 22 reports from Alabama.
  • The 2020s skewed 6.1% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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