Knoxville, TN, USA
Bright object observed slowly moving to west when another object (with red glow) was emitted and departed at a high rate of speed.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-05-31
- Where
- Knoxville, TN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 35.961, -83.921 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-knoxville-tn-2004-ca5678
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
- Knoxville, TN shows up 138 times across the archive.
- 81 reports came from Tennessee in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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