CaseSphere2013
Gulf Shores, AL, USA
Stationary sphere with flashing lights hung for hours
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-03-27
- Where
- Gulf Shores, AL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- several hours
- Geo
- 30.246, -87.701 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-gulf-shores-al-2013-1456c2
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
- Gulf Shores, AL shows up 25 times across the archive.
- 87 reports came from Alabama in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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