CaseFlash2017
Cottontown, TN, USA
Brilliant white flashes of light in the sky observed by family of 5 in Middle Tennessee
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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- Duration parsed: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-08-12
- Where
- Cottontown, TN, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 36.451, -86.538 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-cottontown-tn-2017-a5f402
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In context
- One of 3 documented reports from Cottontown, TN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Tennessee logged 94 sightings in 2017.
- Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
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