CaseOther2007

Smyrna, GA, USA

The fuzzy, comet-like object seen on December 10, 2007 across the East Coast was apparently a rocket stage from a classified satellite.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-12-10
Where
Smyrna, GA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
20 minutes, approx.
Geo
33.884, -84.514 · exact
Slug
other-over-smyrna-ga-2007-a155c7
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

  • One of 11 documented reports from Smyrna, GA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Georgia logged 106 sightings in 2007.
  • Other sightings ran at 7.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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