Johnson City, TN, USA
Observed tube extend from cylinder shaped object on 10/16/2012 on clear day
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-10-16
- Where
- Johnson City, TN, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 36.313, -82.353 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-johnson-city-tn-2012-0b732b
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Johnson City, TN in October 2012 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Johnson City, TN has 47 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 128 reports from Tennessee.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
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.