Elizabethton, TN, USA
Appeared to be fireballs with a dissipating trail falling toward earth at dusk. Two in number. October 14, 2020, 6:47 PM, Elizabethton
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-10-14
- Where
- Elizabethton, TN, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 36.349, -82.211 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-elizabethton-tn-2020-a34409
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
- Elizabethton, TN has 16 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 105 reports from Tennessee.
- The 2020s skewed 3.1% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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