CaseCircle1999
Smithville, TN, USA
6 miles north of smithville on hwy 56 - just beyond the tree line were 2 round beams of light just hovering for over 5 minutes then the
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-15
- Where
- Smithville, TN, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5min
- Geo
- 35.961, -85.814 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-smithville-tn-1999-084386
In context
- Smithville, TN shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 58 reports came from Tennessee in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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