UFOMYST
CaseCircle2017

Pigeon Forge, TN, USA

Fireball? Over East Tennessee on April 12, 2017.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-04-12
Where
Pigeon Forge, TN, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3-4 seconds
Geo
35.788, -83.554 · exact
Slug
circle-over-pigeon-forge-tn-2017-02c9b6
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 13 reports logged in Pigeon Forge, TN.
  • This case is one of 94 Tennessee reports filed in 2017.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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