CaseFireball2011

Franklin/Brentwood, TN, USA

30-50 red/orange fireballs seen over Brentwood and Coolsprings

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-07-30
Where
Franklin/Brentwood, TN, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
35.925, -86.869 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-franklin-brentwood-tn-2011-d80192
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

  • This is one of 3 reports logged in Franklin/Brentwood, TN.
  • This case is one of 100 Tennessee reports filed in 2011.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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