CaseOval2016

Mobile, AL, USA

Oval thing flying ahead with bright lights.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-02-03
Where
Mobile, AL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
1 second
Geo
30.694, -88.043 · exact
Slug
oval-over-mobile-al-2016-1ad09f
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

  • Mobile, AL shows up 65 times across the archive.
  • 50 reports came from Alabama in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

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.