Knoxville, TN, USA
My husband and I were just walking in our neighborhood and saw something we can not explain.I am posting this because neither of us
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-11-14
- Where
- Knoxville, TN, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 2 mins
- Geo
- 35.961, -83.921 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-knoxville-tn-2009-e0f08b
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
- Knoxville, TN shows up 138 times across the archive.
- 72 reports came from Tennessee in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
Report
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