CaseSphere1996
Sewanee, TN, USA
Saw a perfect silver, metalic sphere move with unnatural physics in a crystal clear, afternoon sky.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-05-12
- Where
- Sewanee, TN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 35.203, -85.921 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-sewanee-tn-1996-8d8575
In context
- One of 3 documented reports from Sewanee, TN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Tennessee logged 13 sightings in 1996.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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