CaseLight2004
Pigeon Forge, TN, USA
bright light
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (12 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-01-11
- Where
- Pigeon Forge, TN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- :30
- Geo
- 35.788, -83.554 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-pigeon-forge-tn-2004-65d651
Wave
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
- Pigeon Forge, TN shows up 13 times across the archive.
- 81 reports came from Tennessee in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
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.