Memphis, TN, USA
More Objects Over Memphis
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (25 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-07-12
- Where
- Memphis, TN, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- Over a period of ~30 mins
- Geo
- 35.150, -90.049 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-memphis-tn-2011-b5fc9a
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 6 Memphis, TN reports filed in July 2011.
In context
- Memphis, TN shows up 126 times across the archive.
- 100 reports came from Tennessee in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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