Camden, TN, USA
((HOAX?)) Bright orange light in the shape of a sphere appeared in the sky for about 5 seconds and looked as though it was going down.
Report quality: Low25/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2014-05-02
- Where
- Camden, TN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 36.059, -88.098 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-camden-tn-2014-0939d8
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
- Camden, TN shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 150 reports came from Tennessee in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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