UFOMYST
CaseCircle2016

Jonesborough, TN, USA

I saw a round vessel with individual white litghts around it about 8 miles away and 100 Ft in the sky that stood still for 30 minutes

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: 3000s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-11-05
Where
Jonesborough, TN, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
50 minutes
Geo
36.294, -82.473 · exact
Slug
circle-over-jonesborough-tn-2016-c6b6b5
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…

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In context

  • Jonesborough, TN has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 114 reports from Tennessee.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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