UFOMYST
CaseSphere2011

Knoxville, TN, USA

7 orange orbs flew across the sky one at a time in the same path, appeared out of nowhere, and faded away.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-12-25
Where
Knoxville, TN, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 min.
Geo
35.961, -83.921 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-knoxville-tn-2011-ecd603
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Knoxville, TN has 138 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 100 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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