CaseFireball2020

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
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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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