Pine Level, AL, USA
Five lights, moving as one, slowly at low altitude from west to east across US-231, with no normal aviation lighting.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-12-29
- Where
- Pine Level, AL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- few minutes
- Geo
- 32.584, -86.466 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-pine-level-al-2009-f5d6b5
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
- Pine Level, AL shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 35 reports came from Alabama in 2009.
Report
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