UFO Sightings in Tennessee
2,139 UFO sightings reported in Tennessee since 1942, peaking in 2014 (150 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 2,139
- Span
- 1942–2022
- Peak year
- 2014 (150 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1942–2022 · peak 2014 (150 reports)
Top cities in Tennessee
Nashville
1953–2021 · peak 2013 (18 reports)
Knoxville
1949–2021 · peak 2012 (16 reports)
Memphis
1956–2021 · peak 2008 (11 reports)
Clarksville
1995–2022 · peak 2019 (15 reports)
Murfreesboro
1974–2020 · peak 2012 (7 reports)
Chattanooga
1972–2022 · peak 2014 (6 reports)
Johnson City
1995–2021 · peak 2012 (10 reports)
Franklin
1970–2021 · peak 2013 (5 reports)
Kingsport
1960–2022 · peak 2012 (4 reports)
Jackson
1973–2021 · peak 2008 (5 reports)
Bristol
1961–2018 · peak 2004 (8 reports)
Hendersonville
1995–2020 · peak 2012 (4 reports)
Maryville
1967–2021 · peak 2005 (3 reports)
Cleveland
1998–2022 · peak 2019 (4 reports)
Morristown
1998–2022 · peak 2012 (3 reports)
Spring Hill
1998–2016 · peak 2009 (4 reports)
Sevierville
1999–2022 · peak 2017 (3 reports)
Greeneville
1980–2019 · peak 2009 (5 reports)
Brentwood
1995–2020 · peak 2014 (3 reports)
Manchester
1999–2021 · peak 2003 (3 reports)
Rogersville · TN, USA
The Object is circle and the color is gray and one part was shiny and was coming out of clouds. It must have been moving at speeds of l
Smyrna · TN, USA
It was a slanted white rectangle. Me and my mom both saw it. We saw it for 5 seconds while driving then it was gone. ((anonymous))
Memphis · TN, USA
Today I witnessed a "UF0", on Winchester and Mendenhall in East Memphis. ((anonymous report))
Bellevue · TN, USA
At 4:00am this morning, I took my dog outside to go to the bathroom and I saw a bright light in the sky that was darting across the sky
Bellevue · TN, USA
I was driving on interstate 40 towards Nashville when I looked toy left I saw this huge floating light. ((anonymous report))
Knoxville · TN, USA
Yellowish circular object moving in same region of space for more than three hours.
Murfreesboro · TN, USA
Multiple UFO Sighting - Murfreesboro.
Eads · TN, USA
Hovering sphere of white blue red lights over West TN.
Franklin · TN, USA
An orange ball shaped object suddenly arose in west, changed to a rectangle going east, light began pulsating before it disappeared.
Mt. Juliet · TN, USA
Red pulsating, round, small, silent UFO observed twice above very tall tree.
Knoxville · TN, USA
Triangle craft with escort.
Cleveland · TN, USA
I saw lights at first believed to be a plane, but did not move in the sky at all, just flickered. ((NUFORC Note: Star? PD))
Gallatin · TN, USA
((HOAX?? DATE UNKNOWN)) Several lights move in erratic fashion across the sky, then converge to one ball of light then disappear.
Goodlettsville · TN, USA
Object with row of 6 or 7 lights, moving in sky with non-linear changes of speed and direction.
White House · TN, USA
Strange maneuvers from lighted aircraft
Shelbyville · TN, USA
Orange light traveling north to south at high speed, no sound.
Murfreesboro · TN, USA
After roll call a group of police officers were standing in the parking lot talking. A very loud, low rumble, like a freight train is
Byrdstown · TN, USA
Saucer looking shape, but was so far away you could barely tell. Lights flashing and hazy trail left behind when moving upward.
Mt. Juliet · TN, USA
((HOAX??)) Flashing lights travelling fast across the sky.
Lupton City · TN, USA
Captured a UFO on my phone after taking pictures of cloud formations at the river
Lupton City · TN, USA
Black hovering shaped craft darting through behind the clouds.
Spring Hill · TN, USA
((ADVERTISING LIGHTS??)) Circle with four lights, zig zag pattern military type helocopter right behind it.
Bean Station · TN, USA
Bright green light spotted, not an airplane.
Nashville · TN, USA
Two Large Oval Lights Above the Clouds Two Nights in One Week
Ivy Bluff · TN, USA
Very large, bright & slowly flashing object moving across the western horizon heading south!