Bessemer, AL, USA
Four guys see five teardrop/candle light objects spreading a mist, turn into cones, becomes long slivers, and split in the sky.
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 (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-10-29
- Where
- Bessemer, AL, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- Twenty Minutes
- Geo
- 33.402, -86.954 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-bessemer-al-2010-08a6bb
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
- Bessemer, AL shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 26 reports came from Alabama in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
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