Bartlett, TN, USA
After a sky glow, a bright object moved rapidly at low altitude without sound and parallel to the ground.
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-09-19
- Where
- Bartlett, TN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 7 seconds
- Geo
- 35.205, -89.874 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-bartlett-tn-2006-e85632
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
- Bartlett, TN has 7 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 60 reports from Tennessee.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.