Piney Flats, TN, USA
fireball (looked like flames) with some type of top over it traveling above clouds in straight line east to west
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (112 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-07-04
- Where
- Piney Flats, TN, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 1-3 minutes
- Geo
- 36.420, -82.304 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-piney-flats-tn-2010-793ce8
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
- Piney Flats, TN has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 71 reports from Tennessee.
- The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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