Johnson City, TN, USA
Metallic cylindrical object seen hovering over Johnson City, TN.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (64 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
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 36.313, -82.353 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-johnson-city-tn-2012-caab6e
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Johnson City, TN reports filed in October 2012.
In context
- Johnson City, TN shows up 47 times across the archive.
- 128 reports came from Tennessee in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate 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.