Smyrna, TN, USA
I saw a stationary bright round light, in the bright midday sun for a few minutes (a jet passed between us) eventually it moved on east
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-05-21
- Where
- Smyrna, TN, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- five to eight minutes
- Geo
- 35.983, -86.519 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-smyrna-tn-2008-3c7c69
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 13 reports logged in Smyrna, TN.
- This case is one of 102 Tennessee reports filed in 2008.
- Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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