UFOMYST
CaseSphere2009

Franklin, TN, USA

At 2:25 pm on 8/31/09, I noticed what I first thought was a black large bird (Black Vulture) flying high in the sky. Most of the time t

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-08-31
Where
Franklin, TN, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 min.
Geo
35.925, -86.869 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-franklin-tn-2009-467cf1
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 45 reports logged in Franklin, TN.
  • This case is one of 72 Tennessee reports filed in 2009.
  • Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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