Decaturville, TN, USA
((NUFORC Note: Bogus report? No information, and date is flawed. Source remains anonymous. PD))
Report quality: Low31/100
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
- No witness text on file
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2017-07-06
- Where
- Decaturville, TN, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- ~5 minutes
- Geo
- 35.584, -88.119 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-decaturville-tn-2017-135cd7
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Decaturville, TN.
- This case is one of 94 Tennessee reports filed in 2017.
- Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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