Gadsden, AL, USA
me and my dad were sitting on our deck talking and then these two bright orange and green lights appeared first we thought we were seei
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-17
- Where
- Gadsden, AL, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- dark
- Geo
- 34.014, -86.006 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-gadsden-al-2008-e84a12
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
- Gadsden, AL shows up 15 times across the archive.
- 51 reports came from Alabama in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
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