Kingsport, TN, USA
A dim circle of light with red-orange lights, one at the top one at the bottom.
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: 35s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-17
- Where
- Kingsport, TN, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 35 seconds
- Geo
- 36.548, -82.562 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-kingsport-tn-2015-991c1a
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
- This is one of 40 reports logged in Kingsport, TN.
- This case is one of 110 Tennessee reports filed in 2015.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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