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)
Chattanooga · TN, USA
Fireball observed Tuesday, Dec 7, 2004 in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Johnson City · TN, USA
strange lights over washington county tennessee
Kingsport · TN, USA
A large amount of UFO's in the sky, including a low flying one that was nearly silent and a sort of diamond shape with 5 lights.
Clarksville · TN, USA
In the night sky I saw an object that looked like the pontoons on a pontoon boat, except that one was aligned ahead of the other.
Bristol · TN, USA
Triangular object photographed
Nashville · TN, USA
lights circling inside clouds over Nashville
Cleveland · TN, USA
Sporadic movement from light, with cross glare.
Murfreesboro · TN, USA
Bright orb of fiery red light seen beneath cloudy overcast in southern sky.
Elizabethton · TN, USA
large bright white light
Tracy City · TN, USA
White light Plumb as though burning up on rentery.
Elizabethton · TN, USA
Several craft at one time
Memphis · TN, USA
Me and my sister were outside and saw what looked like an airplane hen it got closer and it was triangular
Memphis · TN, USA
My exited triangular craft sighting
Nashville · TN, USA
A puff came out of the back of the white-grey ufo, that me and my mother saw over the runway.
Bristol · TN, USA
Large Triangle shaped object witnessed with possible injuries
Tullahoma · TN, USA
UFO sighted in the Tullahoma TN vicinity...
Lebanon · TN, USA
triangular object hovering over power lines.
Asheville/Johnson City (between · I-26), TN, USA
cigar shaped object moving from west to east extremely fast.
Bristol · TN, USA
Lobed object seen moving westerly at high altitude
Johnson City · TN, USA
Shooting star?
Dale Hollow Lake · TN, USA
High altitude, fast moving object swept across entire horizon less than 30sec with a pulsing "contrail".
Johnson City · TN, USA
College Professor reports acorn shaped anomolous object
Watauga · TN, USA
Blue Glowing object trailing airplane
Murfreesboro · TN, USA
Delta Shaped Object seen flying toward Nashville TN from Murfreesboro TN.
Wartrace · TN, USA
Four UFO'S spotted in Wartrace, TN for several hours! ((NUFORC Note: Possible twinkling stars, we suspect. PD))