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)
Spring City · TN, USA
My friends and I were sitting on his back porch talking when a large teardrop shaped object came out from behind a stand of trees. It f
Boones Creek · TN, USA
2 yellowish/red dots seen over Boones Creek, Tn
Kingsport · TN, USA
Small white orb flying thru my yard.
Franklin · TN, USA
Orange horseshoe-shaped, silent, moved much faster then any aircraft, came almost to complete stop, then proceeded and vanished.
Memphis · TN, USA
((HOAX??)) White lights with a black belly in a triangular shape.
Hartford · TN, USA
Star like light changing colors and moving slowly downwards
Knoxville · TN, USA
2 blinking red lights, no sound. Moved slowly east, disappeared and a comet like light shot out of the cloud.
Adamsville · TN, USA
Massive fireball shot across the sky from the northwest to southeast. It had 2 smoke tails. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor?? PD))
Jefferson City · TN, USA
Tubular silent unknown above flying SE.
Knoxville · TN, USA
UFO on Chapman Hwy Knoxville, TN.
Moss · TN, USA
Bluish green fireball.
Mt. Juliet · TN, USA
Very large bright round object in sky over Mt. Juliet.
Decatur · TN, USA
Saw an orange moving glow in the sky, and then disappeared.
Chattanooga · TN, USA
Bright blue-green light that lit the entire sky over downtown Chattanooga.
Knoxville · TN, USA
Saw a very high, black louvred rectangular object headed from S to N at cloud level, over South Knox County.
Johnson City · TN, USA
Five lights seen moving over Johnson City looking like bright red-orange fire before vanishing.
Johnson City · TN, USA
Reddish oval lights in eastern Tennessee.
Chattanooga · TN, USA
Black out power outage occurred then a bright green light lit up the hillside as we drove on the I-24
Chattanooga · TN, USA
((HOAX??)) We were sitting in a car talking about Alien Activities with a friend of my Daughters.
Chattanooga · TN, USA
We were sitting in a car talking about Alien Activities with a friend of my Daughters ... He just had sited a big Ship recently that wa
Bluff City · TN, USA
Bright light ever came at us and just disappeared into three pieces.
Kingsport · TN, USA
A dim circle of light with red-orange lights, one at the top one at the bottom.
Hixson · TN, USA
Military helicopter chasing orange star type object over small suburb in Chattanooga, TN.
Knoxville · TN, USA
Light in the north direction, 40 degrees above horizon, very slowly alternating colors.
Nashville · TN, USA
About midnight we were driving along Hwy. 40, going E. I noticed a big triangle shape with red flashing lights. We followed it for a