UFOMYST
CaseFireball2021

Roan Mountain, TN, USA

This was a white fireball with large conical plume of white smoke and charged particles ((Falcon 9 launch.))

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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-03-14
Where
Roan Mountain, TN, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
25 seconds
Geo
36.196, -82.070 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-roan-mountain-tn-2021-652e3a
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…

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In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Roan Mountain, TN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Tennessee logged 49 sightings in 2021.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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