UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2017

Memphis, TN, USA

It was about 1 a.m., I was standing outside smoking a cigarette with two friends and looked up to see a bright, orange/red-ish, glowing

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-05-10
Where
Memphis, TN, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
35.150, -90.049 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-memphis-tn-2017-d001c2
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

  • One of 126 documented reports from Memphis, TN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Tennessee logged 94 sightings in 2017.
  • Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).

Report

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