Chattanooga, TN, USA
On apartment deck. Saucer went overhead at 150 feet high. No lights, no sound. Diameter 150-200 feet. Black in color. Saw rivets where
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-06-15
- Where
- Chattanooga, TN, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 35.046, -85.310 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-chattanooga-tn-1978-1a1b01
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In context
- This is one of 59 reports logged in Chattanooga, TN.
- This case is one of 9 Tennessee reports filed in 1978.
- Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.