UFOMYST
CaseUnknown1978

Bristol, TN, USA

Bright White Light

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (18 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-01-07
Where
Bristol, TN, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
36.595, -82.189 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-bristol-tn-1978-2bb0ee
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Bristol, TN has 31 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 9 reports from Tennessee.

Report

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