CaseOval2011

Chelsea, AL, USA

These were all a oval dark orange colored shapes that seem to be flowing in some sequence. They appeared coming up from a mountain for

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-09-17
Where
Chelsea, AL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
approx. 10 minutes
Geo
33.340, -86.630 · exact
Slug
oval-over-chelsea-al-2011-03b937
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

  • Chelsea, AL has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 40 reports from Alabama.
  • The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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