Hampton, TN, USA
Glowing orange ball flying above commercial jet at great alltitude,that doubled in size then moved so fast it seemed to vanish.
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 (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-01
- Where
- Hampton, TN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 36.284, -82.173 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-hampton-tn-2012-6aaa5a
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
- This is one of 8 reports logged in Hampton, TN.
- This case is one of 128 Tennessee reports filed in 2012.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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