UFOMYST
CaseSphere1978

Bluff City, TN, USA

Red Sphere shaped craft sited in the early morning hours in rural East Tennessee.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-04-15
Where
Bluff City, TN, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
Unknown
Geo
36.474, -82.261 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-bluff-city-tn-1978-b3c8b4
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Bluff City, TN.
  • This case is one of 9 Tennessee reports filed in 1978.
  • Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 1970s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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