CaseFireball1970
Spring City, TN, USA
A large fireball was reported hovering just above the ground near Spring City, Tennessee, in August 1970, before streaking away at high speed within about a minute.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (164 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1970-08-20
- Where
- Spring City, TN, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- Approx 1 minute
- Geo
- 35.692, -84.861 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-spring-city-tn-1970-f74bb6
In context
- Spring City, TN has 6 sightings on file here.
- 1970 brought 3 reports from Tennessee.
- The 1970s skewed 2.6% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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