UFOMYST
CaseOval2017

Vestavia, AL, USA

1 hour Vestavia Al UFO sighting shape shifting reddish color

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (60 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-03-09
Where
Vestavia, AL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
1 hour +
Geo
35.328, -81.502 · fallback
Slug
oval-over-vestavia-al-2017-984cbe
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Vestavia, AL shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 64 reports came from Alabama in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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