UFOMYST
CaseOval2008

Loretto, TN, USA

Craft seen coming through clouds at 45-dgree angle and then jetting off at another 45-degree angle.

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-10-15
Where
Loretto, TN, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
35.078, -87.440 · exact
Slug
oval-over-loretto-tn-2008-c42ac5
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Loretto, TN.
  • This case is one of 102 Tennessee reports filed in 2008.
  • Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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