CaseSphere2012

Big Rock, TN, USA

Large white/silver spherical object with smaller black object in close proximity over Fort Campbell, KY.

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-10-12
Where
Big Rock, TN, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
36.581, -87.760 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-big-rock-tn-2012-d21725
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

  • Big Rock, TN has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 128 reports from Tennessee.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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