Coopertown, TN, USA
there were three sets of clear bright lights,with a small faint red light in the center of each one. One set of lights was ahead of the
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-03-16
- Where
- Coopertown, TN, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- about 2to3 mins.
- Geo
- 36.438, -86.967 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-coopertown-tn-2005-f35d7b
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 2 reports logged in Coopertown, TN.
- This case is one of 51 Tennessee reports filed in 2005.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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