White House, TN, USA
5 bright red orbs traveling west then slowed stopped and turned to the south and faded out.
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 (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-27
- Where
- White House, TN, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 36.470, -86.651 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-white-house-tn-2016-d69aa2
Part of a wave
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
- This is one of 6 reports logged in White House, TN.
- This case is one of 114 Tennessee reports filed in 2016.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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