Centerville, TN, USA
Bright flashing light in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a sighting of the star, Sirius. PD))
Report quality: Low28/100
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: 180000s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (33 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2018-03-13
- Where
- Centerville, TN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 days (2 hours each)
- Geo
- 35.779, -87.467 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-centerville-tn-2018-334504
Part of a wave
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 1 reports logged in Centerville, TN.
- This case is one of 49 Tennessee reports filed in 2018.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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