UFOMYST
CaseSphere2017

Smyrna, TN, USA

White/silver Sphere High Altitude Extreme Speed. ((anonymous report)

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-13
Where
Smyrna, TN, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2-3 seconds
Geo
35.983, -86.519 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-smyrna-tn-2017-47d081
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…

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In context

  • One of 13 documented reports from Smyrna, TN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Tennessee logged 94 sightings in 2017.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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