CaseUnknown2009

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
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…

In context

  • Pine Level, AL shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 35 reports came from Alabama in 2009.

Report

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