CaseCigar2019

Nashville, TN, USA

While sitting outside stargazing watching heavy plane traffic, I noticed a craft thin and long with 3 amber/orange lights with no visib

Report quality: High73/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2019-09-17
Where
Nashville, TN, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
1 minute
Geo
36.166, -86.784 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-nashville-tn-2019-5e30c9
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Nashville, TN reports filed in September 2019.

In context

  • Nashville, TN shows up 170 times across the archive.
  • 129 reports came from Tennessee in 2019.
  • In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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