CaseOval2011

Shelbyville, TN, USA

photos made after thunderstorm, object in two photos

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-10-18
Where
Shelbyville, TN, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
2 Min
Geo
35.483, -86.460 · exact
Slug
oval-over-shelbyville-tn-2011-ddaf6a
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…

In context

  • Shelbyville, TN shows up 12 times across the archive.
  • 100 reports came from Tennessee in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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