Hixson, TN, USA
Comet looking object. Probably a Centaur rocket fuel dump. ((NUFORC Note: Missile venting fuel in space. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2007-12-10
- Where
- Hixson, TN, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- over 5 minutes
- Geo
- 35.141, -85.233 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-hixson-tn-2007-b4b2c5
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
- Hixson, TN has 14 sightings on file here.
- 2007 brought 64 reports from Tennessee.
- The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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