CaseLight2009

Knoxville, TN, USA

Five white lights int he sky, like stars or planets, move around one another and then move quickly over the tree line and out of sight.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-03-19
Where
Knoxville, TN, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
35.961, -83.921 · exact
Slug
light-over-knoxville-tn-2009-20ad13
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…

In context

  • One of 138 documented reports from Knoxville, TN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Tennessee logged 72 sightings in 2009.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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