CaseCircle2009
Rochester, TN, USA
Strange airborne lights, observed by 10 middle-aged friends
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-09-05
- Where
- Rochester, TN, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 43.155, -77.616 · fallback
- Slug
- circle-over-rochester-tn-2009-4b351c
Wave
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
- Rochester, TN shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 72 reports came from Tennessee in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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