CaseCircle2013

Sneedville, TN, USA

Large round bright white light moved away and upward for 1-1.5 min before completely disappearing.

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: 75s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-10-01
Where
Sneedville, TN, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1-1.5 minutes
Geo
36.530, -83.217 · exact
Slug
circle-over-sneedville-tn-2013-ff92ab
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…

In context

  • Sneedville, TN shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 125 reports came from Tennessee in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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