Roan Mountain, TN, USA
UFO. black triangle w/3 white lights on corners no strobe.#2Glassy oval gem w/ all colors purple gold mostly close
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 1020s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (114 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-17
- Where
- Roan Mountain, TN, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 17 minutes
- Geo
- 36.196, -82.070 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-roan-mountain-tn-2013-d75693
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
- One of 4 documented reports from Roan Mountain, TN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Tennessee logged 125 sightings in 2013.
- Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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