Kingsport, TN, USA
Driving down I-81 South. Object was very bright like a star. ((NUFORC Note: Probable sighting of Venus? PD))
Report quality: Low29/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2017-02-13
- Where
- Kingsport, TN, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 36.548, -82.562 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-kingsport-tn-2017-43b2d6
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
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In context
- This is one of 40 reports logged in Kingsport, TN.
- This case is one of 94 Tennessee reports filed in 2017.
Report
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