Bean Station, TN, USA
Large cigar shaped flying about 800 feet high. Huge square engines on back.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-10-10
- Where
- Bean Station, TN, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 36.344, -83.284 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-bean-station-tn-2012-6c4b0c
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
- One of 2 documented reports from Bean Station, TN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Tennessee logged 128 sightings in 2012.
- Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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