Shelbyville (Flat Creek area), TN, USA
light moved across sky flashed twice and bathed landscape in sustained bright white light. No sound/wind
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 75s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-04-27
- Where
- Shelbyville (Flat Creek area), TN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 sec-45 sec
- Geo
- 35.483, -86.460 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-shelbyville-flat-creek-area-tn-2009-7999ec
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
- Shelbyville (Flat Creek area), TN has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 72 reports from Tennessee.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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