UFOMYST
CaseFlash2016

Knoxville, TN, USA

I was driving to work last night when I saw a flash of light streak across the sky and then disappear. I was heading southwest.

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-01-12
Where
Knoxville, TN, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
35.961, -83.921 · exact
Slug
flash-over-knoxville-tn-2016-d6b031
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Knoxville, TN shows up 138 times across the archive.
  • 114 reports came from Tennessee in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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.