CaseOther2016
Birmingham, AL, USA
What is this type of object without lights?
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (43 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-01-08
- Where
- Birmingham, AL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 33.521, -86.802 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-birmingham-al-2016-76b34f
Wave
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 79 documented reports from Birmingham, AL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Alabama logged 50 sightings in 2016.
- Other sightings ran at 6.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.