UFOMYST
CaseSphere2012

Memphis, TN, USA

Spherical metallic object high up in daylight sky gaining altitude and slowly heading west. One witness observed a spider like orange

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-05-22
Where
Memphis, TN, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
15 min.
Geo
35.150, -90.049 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-memphis-tn-2012-896b07
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…

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In context

  • Memphis, TN has 126 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 128 reports from Tennessee.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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