CaseFlash2017

Clarksville, TN, USA

Flashing light in sky.

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (22 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2017-08-12
Where
Clarksville, TN, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
36.530, -87.359 · exact
Slug
flash-over-clarksville-tn-2017-ced03c
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 77 reports logged in Clarksville, TN.
  • This case is one of 94 Tennessee reports filed in 2017.
  • Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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