UFOMYST
Casecircle1997

Blountville, TN, USA

Brightly lit circular object (circular light pattern) hovering 1 1/2 minutes and suddenly darting away faster than conventional aircraf

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-24
Where
Blountville, TN, USA
Shape
circle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
36.533, -82.327 · exact
Slug
circle-over-blountville-tn-1997-a35634
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Blountville, TN has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 13 reports from Tennessee.
  • The 1990s skewed 6.7% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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