UFOMYST
CaseOther2004

Knoxville, TN, USA

MUFON/TENNESSEE REPORT: Possible explanation of Knoxville sighting

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (66 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-f050b1
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

April 2004 was a busy month for Knoxville, TN: 5 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 138 reports logged in Knoxville, TN.
  • This case is one of 81 Tennessee reports filed in 2004.
  • Other craft made up 7.6% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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