Manchester, TN, USA
I witnessed an oval shaped craft, with no sound, emitting a red orange trail from one end. While I was keeping my eyes on it, I watched
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-06-14
- Where
- Manchester, TN, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 8 seconds
- Geo
- 35.482, -86.089 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-manchester-tn-2020-b4dd2e
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
- One of 17 documented reports from Manchester, TN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Tennessee logged 105 sightings in 2020.
- Oval sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2020s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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