Lynchburg, TN, USA
This sphere bright like the moon, very silent, moving tree level, making a believer out of me.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-04-12
- Where
- Lynchburg, TN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 35.283, -86.374 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-lynchburg-tn-2012-e8c506
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
- Lynchburg, TN shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 128 reports came from Tennessee in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.