UFOMYST
CaseDiamond2012

Knoxville, TN, USA

4 bright white lights, house-size formation - on South Knoxville ridge. Stationary, then moving west along the entire ridge.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (124 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-12-09
Where
Knoxville, TN, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
35.961, -83.921 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-knoxville-tn-2012-471793
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 138 reports logged in Knoxville, TN.
  • This case is one of 128 Tennessee reports filed in 2012.
  • Diamond craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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