Marietta, GA, USA
Brilliant white object over Marietta GA ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a sighting of a "twinkling" star. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (39 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2011-07-30
- Where
- Marietta, GA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Geo
- 33.953, -84.550 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-marietta-ga-2011-9ca83c
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.
- 94 reports came from Georgia in 2011.
Report
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