Knoxville, TN, USA
Seen 2 odd lights moving from the west heading east. When it became aligned with my location it was extremely clear as a triangle rear
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-10-17
- Where
- Knoxville, TN, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 35.961, -83.921 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-knoxville-tn-2019-e9f2b2
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…
Local cluster
October 2019 was a busy month for Knoxville, TN: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 138 reports logged in Knoxville, TN.
- This case is one of 129 Tennessee reports filed in 2019.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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