UFOMYST
CaseDisk1978

Kingsport, TN, USA

flashing red light turned out to be a soundless spinning disc shape

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-25
Where
Kingsport, TN, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
36.548, -82.562 · exact
Slug
disk-over-kingsport-tn-1978-03f986
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Kingsport, TN shows up 40 times across the archive.
  • 9 reports came from Tennessee in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.