CaseDiamond2016

Lancing, TN, USA

I saw a diamond shaped object with two bright lights that hovered in the air, with no sound, even during movement.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (114 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-12-09
Where
Lancing, TN, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
36.121, -84.654 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-lancing-tn-2016-c5e943
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…

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Lancing, TN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Tennessee logged 114 sightings in 2016.
  • Diamond sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.4%).

Report

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