Lupton City, TN, USA
Captured a UFO on my phone after taking pictures of cloud formations at the river
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-02-01
- Where
- Lupton City, TN, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 35.106, -85.264 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-lupton-city-tn-2016-4a092c
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
- Lupton City, TN shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 114 reports came from Tennessee in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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