Knoxville, TN, USA
Brilliant bright light seen above high altitude airplane with no plume then disappears over Knoxville, TN.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-11-17
- Where
- Knoxville, TN, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 35.961, -83.921 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-knoxville-tn-2012-7db584
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Knoxville, TN in November 2012 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Knoxville, TN has 138 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 128 reports from Tennessee.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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