Johnson City, TN, USA
Spotted a red sphere that appeared to be flying a little lower than typical passenger plane altitude. It looked like a bright red star.
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-22
- Where
- Johnson City, TN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2-5minutes
- Geo
- 36.313, -82.353 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-johnson-city-tn-2021-571c3d
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
- Johnson City, TN shows up 47 times across the archive.
- 49 reports came from Tennessee in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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