UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2020

Sparta, TN, USA

At first it looks like a star but once you look more closely you can tell it is at about airplane level when I recorded it and enlarged

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 18000s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-10-21
Where
Sparta, TN, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
5 hours
Geo
35.926, -85.464 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-sparta-tn-2020-3c2525
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…

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In context

  • Sparta, TN has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 105 reports from Tennessee.

Report

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