Marietta, GA, USA
Saturday April 04/2009 around 12:30 pm - Atlanta Georgia – weather clear, sunny, and blue sky's. While working in the yard (north
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-04-04
- Where
- Marietta, GA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- five minuets
- Geo
- 33.953, -84.550 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-marietta-ga-2009-cb15d3
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
- Marietta, GA shows up 86 times across the archive.
- 84 reports came from Georgia in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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