Shelbyville, TN, USA
Strange flashing objects in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Probably a "twinkling" star. PD))
Report quality: Low36/100
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
- Brief witness text (36 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2008-10-14
- Where
- Shelbyville, TN, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- past 4nights
- Geo
- 35.483, -86.460 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-shelbyville-tn-2008-b9562e
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
- One of 12 documented reports from Shelbyville, TN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Tennessee logged 102 sightings in 2008.
- Disk sightings ran at 6.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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