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CaseTeardrop2016

Gray, TN, USA

Fireball with teardrop shape above it, rose above tree line, hovered briefly then moved horiz. across the sky. ((anonymous report))

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-07-09
Where
Gray, TN, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
1 minutes
Geo
36.420, -82.477 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-gray-tn-2016-a4b6ee
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

  • Gray, TN has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 114 reports from Tennessee.
  • The 2010s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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