CaseCylinder2009
Lafayette, TN, USA
Three UFO's appear out of thin air for 15 minutes then vanish.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-03
- Where
- Lafayette, TN, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 36.521, -86.026 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-lafayette-tn-2009-8a760d
Wave
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
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Lafayette, TN.
- This case is one of 72 Tennessee reports filed in 2009.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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