CaseLight1971
Newport, TN, USA
Witnesses in Newport, Tennessee reported a light that moved silently, alternating between slow drifting and extremely fast motion, for over five minutes in June 1971.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (166 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-06-01
- Where
- Newport, TN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5+minutes
- Geo
- 35.967, -83.188 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-newport-tn-1971-31bf74
In context
- One of 7 documented reports from Newport, TN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Tennessee logged 1 sightings in 1971.
- Light sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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