Gatlinburg, TN, USA
Started out as a small circle in the sky. As I got a closer view, it had red lights at the bottom as it was flying towards the hori
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-06
- Where
- Gatlinburg, TN, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 14:09
- Geo
- 35.715, -83.512 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-gatlinburg-tn-2015-d1cd73
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
- Gatlinburg, TN has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 110 reports from Tennessee.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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