Chattanooga, TN, USA
((HOAX??)) We were sitting in a car talking about Alien Activities with a friend of my Daughters.
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2015-08-13
- Where
- Chattanooga, TN, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 35.046, -85.310 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-chattanooga-tn-2015-9eef5a
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Chattanooga, TN reports filed in August 2015.
In context
- Chattanooga, TN shows up 59 times across the archive.
- 110 reports came from Tennessee in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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