CaseSphere2009

Pleasant Shade, TN, USA

They seem to come and go from the same spot in the sky.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-12-12
Where
Pleasant Shade, TN, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
MONTHS
Geo
36.378, -85.950 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-pleasant-shade-tn-2009-0c6b46
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…

In context

  • Pleasant Shade, TN shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 72 reports came from Tennessee in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 5.9% 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.