Memphis, TN, USA
A chevron shaped object with red circular lights underneath flew ever so smoothly and quietly in the 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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-07-15
- Where
- Memphis, TN, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 35.150, -90.049 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-memphis-tn-2012-1a460d
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…
In context
- Memphis, TN has 126 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 128 reports from Tennessee.
- The 2010s skewed 1.1% chevron reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.1%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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