CaseOval2020

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

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  • 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
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…

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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