Jackson, TN, USA
After watching a unusual "star" disappear,I jacklighted the positon,got a reflection,It reacted,another cylinder appeared.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-05-02
- Where
- Jackson, TN, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 35.615, -88.814 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-jackson-tn-2004-6f0651
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
- Jackson, TN has 32 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 81 reports from Tennessee.
- The 2000s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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