CaseChanging2005

Bristol, TN, USA

TENNESSEE MUFON REPORT: Slowly falling, plasma-like object.

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2005-10-31
Where
Bristol, TN, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
90 seconds
Geo
36.595, -82.189 · exact
Slug
changing-over-bristol-tn-2005-25a3bc
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

  • This is one of 31 reports logged in Bristol, TN.
  • This case is one of 51 Tennessee reports filed in 2005.
  • Changing craft made up 2.8% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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