Maryville, TN, USA
Saw a shooting star; disappeared. as i was looking i saw a faint red line then a cigar shaped object hit what looked rockets boosters.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-12-29
- Where
- Maryville, TN, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 10
- Geo
- 35.756, -83.970 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-maryville-tn-2015-3775d1
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
- Maryville, TN has 23 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 110 reports from Tennessee.
- The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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