UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2020

Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

I looked up to the southeast and saw a large object hovering a few hundred feet up in the sky.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-05
Where
Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
—
Geo
33.210, -87.569 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-tuscaloosa-al-2020-1fad3c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 24 documented reports from Tuscaloosa, AL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Alabama logged 62 sightings in 2020.
  • Teardrop sightings ran at 0.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 0.9%).

Report

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