CaseCircle2014

Oak Ridge, TN, USA

Quick moving massive ball of fire Not lightening ball!

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (54 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-08-02
Where
Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
20-30 seconds
Geo
36.010, -84.270 · exact
Slug
circle-over-oak-ridge-tn-2014-ce73f7
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

  • This is one of 15 reports logged in Oak Ridge, TN.
  • This case is one of 150 Tennessee reports filed in 2014.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.