UFOMYST
CaseFireball1997

Pleasant View, TN, USA

large white fireball or super flare...

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (38 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-09-01
Where
Pleasant View, TN, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
36.394, -87.037 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-pleasant-view-tn-1997-0dc102
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Pleasant View, TN shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 13 reports came from Tennessee in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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