Flat Creek, TN, USA
Looked out the window and thought it was the moon, but it was very low in the sky and there was no lunar eclipse.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-08-02
- Where
- Flat Creek, TN, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 36.385, -85.382 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-flat-creek-tn-2014-d0126d
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
- Flat Creek, TN has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 150 reports from Tennessee.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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