Bethel Springs, TN, USA
At 21:44 in the W sky a huge bright orange spherical object traveling from north to south visible to me for about ten seconds
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-05-07
- Where
- Bethel Springs, TN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- ~10 seconds
- Geo
- 35.234, -88.606 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-bethel-springs-tn-2018-ede409
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
- Bethel Springs, TN shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 49 reports came from Tennessee in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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