UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2011

Kingsport, TN, USA

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Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (42 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2011-08-16
Where
Kingsport, TN, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
36.548, -82.562 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-kingsport-tn-2011-919eb9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 40 documented reports from Kingsport, TN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Tennessee logged 100 sightings in 2011.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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