CaseCigar2009

Memphis, TN, USA

Traveling red lights that had the ability to rapidly change flight direction were seen on Jackson Ave in Memphis TN

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (115 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-01-01
Where
Memphis, TN, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
35.150, -90.049 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-memphis-tn-2009-af52d8
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

  • Memphis, TN shows up 126 times across the archive.
  • 72 reports came from Tennessee in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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