UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2015

Knoxville, TN, USA

Short, cylindrical craft that gleamed like a star, was illuminated briefly by the sun, and disappeared

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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-12-08
Where
Knoxville, TN, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
10-15 seconds
Geo
35.961, -83.921 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-knoxville-tn-2015-71be45
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 138 documented reports from Knoxville, TN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Tennessee logged 110 sightings in 2015.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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