Baxter, TN, USA
My husband and I were sitting on our front porch in Baxter, TN (Putnam Co, right off of I-40, exit 280. About 70 east of Nashville.) Th
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-08-09
- Where
- Baxter, TN, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 36.154, -85.644 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-baxter-tn-2004-76ed7b
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Baxter, TN.
- This case is one of 81 Tennessee reports filed in 2004.
Report
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