UFOMYST
CaseOther2004

Knoxville, TN, USA

Reddish Orange glow in night sky over next ridge.

Report quality: Moderate66/100

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: 390s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2004-04-08
Where
Knoxville, TN, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
5 to 8 Minutes
Geo
35.961, -83.921 · exact
Slug
other-over-knoxville-tn-2004-7dac29
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Knoxville, TN reports filed in April 2004.

In context

  • Knoxville, TN shows up 138 times across the archive.
  • 81 reports came from Tennessee in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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