Pelham, AL, USA
White spherical craft travelling at speed I've never seen before over Oak Mountain State Park @ 22:57 p.m. in Pelham, Alabama.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-03-06
- Where
- Pelham, AL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 33.286, -86.810 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-pelham-al-2016-fa0684
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
- Pelham, AL has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 50 reports from Alabama.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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