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
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…
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 daysReport
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