NUFORC Reports for State TN

Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Posted	Media
Open	02/15/1995 03:58	Nashville	TN	USA		Man saw strange light move slowly across sky, stop, then streak off. 10 second sighting.	02/15/1995	11/02/1999
Open	02/16/1995 00:00	Johnson City	TN	USA		Founder/director of U.S.UFO Info. & Res. Cntr. calls. Proposes collaboration w/ Nat. UFO Rept. Cntr.	02/16/1995	11/02/1999
Open	11/15/1994 19:00	Mountain City	TN	USA	Triangle	Computer engin. repts. seeing triangular ships over TN almost nightly. Repts. overhearing radio commo. of F-15 firing on UFO.	02/23/1995	11/02/1999
Open	02/26/1995 20:00	Tallassee	TN	USA		FAA empl. & pilot reports seeing triangular ships w/ bizarre lights. Over mountainous country.	02/27/1995	11/02/1999
Open	01/07/1995 17:30	McMinnville	TN	USA		TN Emer. Man. Agency reports UFO-related flash/explosion near McMinnville, TN. 8-page fax from sheriff's office. Fed. agents.	01/07/1995	11/02/1999
Open	01/09/1995 23:55	Memphis	TN	USA		Mother, daughter, and friend witness 4-5 objects over school yard. Objects hovered, then streaked off. Silent.	01/11/1995	11/02/1999
Open	01/21/1995 21:50	Seymour	TN	USA		A man and his fiancee witnessed gigantic triangle hovering in the night sky. Red & blue belly lights. Good rept.	01/22/1995	11/02/1999
Open	01/24/1995 04:42	Lebanon	TN	USA		A woman and daughter witnessed 2 large ships, and a cluster of white ships. Clamshell in shape. TEMA rept..	01/24/1995	11/02/1999
Open	03/06/1995 19:45	Mountain City	TN	USA		Wife & husband see obj. projecting beam of light down to ground. Illuminated trees. Rose & flew off.	03/07/1995	11/02/1999
Open	03/15/1995 23:32	Jackson	TN	USA		Man sees blue-green obj. hover below overcast for 45 sec.. Streaks off, leaving veil of red sparks.	03/15/1995	11/02/1999
Open	04/02/1995 10:20	Knoxville	TN	USA		MUFON State Dir./TN calls to request information about UFO sightings/explosion over TN on 01/07/95. Investigating incident.	04/02/1995	11/02/1999
Open	04/13/1995 23:07	West Memphis	TN	USA		Memphis FAA controller relays sighting rept.--- Man sees green "roman candle" descend to ground, streak north.	04/13/1995	11/02/1999
Open	04/30/1995 11:55	Mt. City	TN	USA		Computer engin. repts. strange conversation re UFO's w/ USAF officers at Patrick AFB, FL. They used (seemingly) covert names.	05/01/1995	11/02/1999
Open	05/02/1995 12:00	Memphis	TN	USA		Woman reports that her grandfather, an American Indian, tells tribal stories very similar in nature to UFO reports.	05/02/1995	11/02/1999
Open	05/15/1995 00:00	McKenzie	TN	USA		Man calls to rept. cattle mutilations in county (On Hwy. 22?). Helicopters reported, sheriff's office involved, newspaper articles.	05/24/1995	11/02/1999
Open	05/24/1995 22:35	Brentwood	TN	USA		Young boy (14 yrs.), mother, & friend witness large, white obj., size of moon fly almost overhead	05/24/1995	11/02/1999
Open	09/19/1995 22:46	Johnson City	TN	USA		Bizarre, complex sighting of multiple objs. near Tri-City Airport. Bell-shaped, hovered, maneuvered strangely. Shot light at ground!	09/19/1995	11/02/1999
Open	10/23/1995 21:30	Johnson City	TN	USA		Young couple witness 2 "huge" objects pass overhead. Had no wings, 20 lights (est.) per side. Very visible; "hummed." Good rpt.	10/24/1995	11/02/1999
Open	10/29/1995 21:40	Kodak	TN	USA		Man & wife witness very bizarre obj. moving erratically in sky. "It looked like an airplane, but it wasn't (one.)" 1 blinking light.	10/29/1995	11/02/1999
Open	11/15/1995 03:00	Green Co.	TN	USA		FAA empl. relays facts of written rept. Man and woman encounter 3 bizarre ships that hovered over them on Hwy. 70.	11/16/1995	11/02/1999
Open	11/21/1995 22:00	Memphis	TN	USA		Woman & neighbor witness bizarre obj. pass overhead. Obj. had long wings, "like a glider," w/ 8-9 lights on each. It folded wings!!	11/21/1995	11/02/1999
Open	01/25/1996 15:04	Bartlett	TN	USA		Woman observes two "aircraft," then realizes that one is a cluster of "slivers of metal in the sky." Objs. hover, maneuver, disappear.	01/29/1996	11/02/1999
Open	02/23/1996 21:29	Madison	TN	USA		Several children witness a "small silver disc w/ a white light on top." Streaks off. Mother separates them & they draw same obj..	02/23/1996	11/02/1999
Open	04/11/1996 13:00	Memphis	TN	USA		Auto mechanics rept. bizarre red light that streak around shop, "like laser." Appears to come down out of sky; no other people nearby.	04/11/1996	11/02/1999
Open	10/18/1996 23:30	Memphis	TN	USA	Unknown	I was spending the night at a friends house when we went outside to check on his dog and my we saw something in the sky. They were a	12/22/1996	03/07/1998
Open	06/01/1980 20:00	Greeneville	TN	USA	Triangle	3 witnesses see 2 large triangularobjects hovering about 100 feet inair. No sound. Objects shoot laserbeam toward one another-disappear	03/27/1997	03/07/1998
Open	07/07/1997 16:53	Surgoinsville	TN	USA		Animal mutilations reported in rural east Tennessee. May 24,1997	06/07/1997	01/28/1999
Open	12/01/1980 21:00	Franklin (5 miles south of)	TN	USA	Rectangle	Close encounter/Franklin Tn.	07/10/1997	08/05/2001
Open	07/03/1997 21:30	Vanleer	TN	USA	Formation	Three orange yellow lights in a tri-angle pattern,that stayed on for about 45 mins. changed positions vertically. out for 4 or 5 mins,	07/19/1997	09/26/1998
Open		Hampshire	TN	USA	Cigar	My husband and a a handful of men who were sitting in front of the Hampshire Mens Club, when one of the men pointed to a spot above a l	07/22/1997	09/26/1998
Open	07/03/1997 03:00	Brentwood	TN	USA	Cylinder	Extremely bright white cylinder looking object east to west direction saw from horizon to horizon through trees	08/01/1997	09/26/1998
Open	08/01/1997 23:00	Chattanooga	TN	USA	Light	bright lights munerving high in the sky back and forth quickly and moving very high in the sky and disapering very quickly!	08/13/1997	01/29/2002
Open	10/24/1997 06:30	Blountville	TN	USA	circle	Brightly lit circular object (circular light pattern) hovering 1 1/2 minutes and suddenly darting away faster than conventional aircraf	10/25/1997	01/28/1999
Open	01/01/1989 23:00	Memphis	TN	USA	Orb	On sequential nights during the month of January, 1988, I witnessed from 2-4 bright amber lights hovering or slowly moving in the weste	11/03/1997	01/28/1999
Open	01/04/1998 23:45	Nashville	TN	USA	Circle	I was going south on hwy 41 just before Briley pkwy exit. saw circular craft with row of lights on leading edge slowly drift across hwy	01/06/1998	03/07/1998
Open	02/25/1998 20:00	Nashville	TN	USA	Fireball	Unusual Blue Light (Meteorite or Flare) 2 minutes observed traveling south to north.	02/26/1998	01/28/1999
Open	08/15/1975 19:30	McKenzie	TN	USA	Cone	Observed two shiny objects which resembled a child's top flying west to east in the twilight.	03/11/1998	01/28/1999
Open	03/19/1998 19:00	Spring Hill	TN	USA	Light	It was a light formation containing 5 lights regularly spaced moving in a circular pattern. These lights were fuzzy edged like headligh	03/20/1998	01/28/1999
Open	02/25/1998 05:45	Stouthill (community, nearest city 30 miles, TN)	TN	USA	Cylinder	AN OBJECT OF ABOUT 150FT IN LENTH[ESTAMETE]WITH 4 BRIGHT LIGHTS IN PERFECT ALIGNMENT ALONG ITS BOTTOM.IT WAS HOVERING APP. 100FTABOVE T	04/01/1998	09/28/2002
Open	05/04/1998 00:45	Memphis	TN	USA	Unknown	Between 4-6 dim, orange lights, traveling NNW-SSE. Straight line travel, no noise.	05/04/1998	01/28/1999
Open	09/25/1998 05:41	Memphis	TN	USA	Flash	Approx. it was 5:41 in the morning and I was driving down this road called farm road and all of a sudden, I see this flash and it went	09/25/1998	09/26/1998
Open	09/15/1960 19:00	Kingsport	TN	USA	Circle	An orange, circular craft drifted over the house from east to west shortly after sundown.	08/30/1998	01/28/1999
Open	04/15/1998 15:00	Murfreesboro	TN	USA	Sphere	while traveling south on I 24 @ 10 miles north of murfreesboro I saw three round silvery bright objects in an equilateral triangle. The	09/10/1998	01/28/1999
Open	06/01/1956 20:00	Memphis	TN	USA	Cylinder	Object was glowing dull orange bent cylinder. Hovered noiselessly over RR tracks for a time, then took off straight up.	07/07/1998	01/28/1999
Open	08/01/1978 22:00	Clarksville (rural area)	TN	USA	Circle	A sighting of a craft and alien abduction experience	07/23/1998	09/19/2002
Open	08/07/1998 19:00	Lenoir City	TN	USA	Other	I was riding in a boat and noticed a very bright pair of lights at about 30 degrees above the horizon I turned to ask my wife if she sa	08/09/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/11/1998 14:30	Mount Carmel	TN	USA	Light	Bright shiny object splits in two and disappears above horizon.	10/14/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/21/1998 22:42	Columbia	TN	USA	Formation	U-shaped formation of orange gold lights travelling south at high speed.	10/21/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/18/1998 18:00	Germantown	TN	USA	Light	I saw a white light move from left to right, back to the left then it dissapered.	10/20/1998	11/01/1998
Open	07/20/1995 02:00	Henry	TN	USA	Light	It looked like a star at first, then it started moving in circles, going straight up then back down again,and then going in circles aga	10/26/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/27/1998 03:32	Newport	TN	USA	Circle	While traveling East on I40, between Newport, Tn. and Ashville, Nc. I saw an object streak across the sky. The weather was clear. The s	10/27/1998	11/01/1998
Open	11/01/1998 01:30	Joelton (Near; I-24)	TN	USA	Other	One Object, sighted in the southern sky, launched an object with running lights like a plane, turned 180 degrees, and morphed.	11/16/1998	11/19/1998
Open	11/17/1998 23:30	Morristown	TN	USA	Changing	Had three lights alternating between red, green, and blue. Changed shape from saucered to triangular. ((NUFORC Note: Star?? PD))	11/17/1998	11/19/1998
Open	11/17/1998 21:03	Knoxville	TN	USA	Formation	OBSERVED 4 LIGHTS, HIGH ALTITUDE, SUPER-FAST, TRAVELING STRAIGHT ACROSS THE SKY IN LESS THAN 20 SECONDS	12/01/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/07/1998 22:15	Soddy Daisy	TN	USA	Sphere	We saw a round object hover about 200 feet above the cooling towers of the Sequoia Nuclear facility. The object emitted a soft white gl	12/07/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/10/1998 01:00	I-81 (northbound between mile marker 34 to 38 aprox.)	TN	USA	Triangle	UFO hovered over my vehicle while traveling on I-81 , late at night.	12/12/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/13/1998 23:25	Cottontown	TN	USA	Other	Many shooting stars spotted	12/14/1998	01/28/1999
Open	11/27/1998 20:30	Columbia	TN	USA	Fireball	Greenish-blue fireball at approx. 45 degree angle, moving east to west, first observed at highest point approx.one o'clock position, mo	12/28/1998	02/16/1999
Open	02/08/1999 17:50	Bulls Gap	TN	USA	Sphere	Late in the evening on the 8th I saw 2 objects west slightly south west I saw 2 objects in the sky being chased by 2 jets.	02/22/1999	04/02/1999
Open	04/01/1997 23:05	Brush Creek	TN	USA	Unknown	The object came up over a group of trees at what seemed to be a very low altitude. Proceeded NNE until I guessed it to be somewhere nea	02/28/1999	04/02/1999
Open	03/01/1999 17:30	Piney (Lawrence County (rural) )	TN	USA	Light	hovering light, no sound, exited at very high rate of speed	03/11/1999	04/02/1999
Open	04/14/1999 00:10	Oak Ridge	TN	USA	Oval	i looked up because something caught my eye.looking in an easterly direction i saw a glowing green oval object.it hovered for a moment	04/16/1999	04/26/1999
Open	04/15/1998 23:30	Lancing (Rome Road)	TN	USA	Light	Several lights at extremely high altitudes, moving very fast and irratically back and forth across the sky.	04/21/1999	04/26/1999
Open	04/09/1999 09:45	Murfeesboro	TN	USA	Changing	it started out as 2 lights with a body then it had 3 lights and lost its body.it then gaind 1 more light then the light went out the it	04/30/1999	05/24/1999
Open	05/02/1999 20:20	McEwen	TN	USA	Light	The object moved across the sky in a southern direction at a very high rate of speed. About 20 min. later, the object was then being p	05/02/1999	05/24/1999
Open	06/12/1980 01:00	Middle Valley	TN	USA	Triangle	approx. 150' for all three sides, no apparent front or back. yellow to white glow at the three corners. magenta in center, no apparent	12/31/1998	05/24/1999
Open	05/06/1999 17:33	Memphis	TN	USA	Other	Daylight observation of a pin-point of light in western sky	05/10/1999	05/24/1999
Open	05/13/1999 21:00	Memphis (Century Arbor apartments)	TN	USA	Other	Fiance and I both witnessed separate events where lights began streaking over the skies above our apartment. moving at rapid speed, ch	05/14/1999	05/24/1999
Open	05/10/1999 12:15	Memphis	TN	USA	Disk	Contact ((name delet @(901)((deleted)) or ((deleted)) Radio Show hotline @(901) for one page of complete account.	05/16/1999	05/24/1999
Open	05/13/1999 16:30	Memphis	TN	USA	Sphere	Object traveled across sky at high speed into a small cloud and did not emerge.	05/17/1999	05/24/1999
Open	05/18/1999 21:30	Fairview	TN	USA	Light	Very bright light (we thought it was a planet) upper left of moon that just disappeared	05/18/1999	05/24/1999
Open	05/19/1999 22:00	Union City	TN	USA	Other	at first we thought it was a star,but it was moving in a downward direction and it was slowly changing color from white to red and blue	05/22/1999	06/23/1999
Open	05/18/1999 22:50	Nashville	TN	USA	Chevron	Iwas driving south from Nashville on Nolensville Rd at 9:30 p.m. Lights to my right (west) just off the road caught my eye. This area	06/28/1999	07/05/1999
Open	06/17/1999 23:00	Lenior City	TN	USA	Fireball	I was getting ready to go to bed at approximately 11:00 p.m. and noticed a bright white light in the sky surrounded by a fiery colored	07/03/1999	07/05/1999
Open	07/26/1999 22:30	Shelbyville	TN	USA	Oval	Spotted a luminous blue oval-shaped object traveling in a S to N direction. Object appeared to have a red glowing ring surrounded by a	07/27/1999	08/10/1999
Open	09/05/1999 00:40	Sevierville	TN	USA	Circle	very distant, small, appeared to be like an airplane from a distance, but was not moving, had alternating flashing red, blue, and green	09/05/1999	09/12/1999
Open	07/04/1999 00:00	Johnson City	TN	USA		this is getting odd.	08/31/1999	09/13/2002
Open	09/07/1999 12:15	Gallatin	TN	USA	Cylinder	I was driving in a new subdivision when I saw an object flying slowly in the sky. The color and shape of the object was unlike any airc	09/07/1999	09/12/1999
Open	12/15/1998 22:00	Millington	TN	USA	Circle	Well on that night i was sitting at home when my dad called me from his car on his way home from work.He told me that i should go outsi	09/11/1999	09/12/1999
Open	09/04/1999 22:30	Nashville	TN	USA	Light	I had walked out back and looked up at the sky and a golden light was moving slowly across the sky. There were no flashing lights so I	09/11/1999	10/02/1999
Open	09/01/1999 23:58	Murfreesboro	TN	USA	Fireball	Two objects seen possiably leaving moon's surface or flying around Moon....	09/11/1999	10/02/1999
Open	03/15/1999 04:00	Nashville	TN	USA	Light	Pure pulsating light, moved strangely in the sky, best described is like the minute hand on a clock, you can't see it move but you know	09/14/1999	10/02/1999
Open	09/17/1999 22:30	Dandridge	TN	USA	Triangle	Watched red light grow large then disappear when I was getting into my car. Reappeared in front of me while driving, I pulled over and	09/17/1999	10/02/1999
Open	09/25/1999 20:00	Nashville	TN	USA	Cigar	silver cigar shape	09/25/1999	10/02/1999
Open	09/10/1999 03:15	Brentwood	TN	USA		Brilliant Orange Fireball	09/28/1999	10/02/1999
Open	09/29/1999 18:45	Nashville	TN	USA	Fireball	fiery object looking like craft in movie "it came from outer space" or comet-like with fiery tail observed traveling in nw direction fr	09/30/1999	10/02/1999
Open	10/14/1999 22:10	Nashville	TN	USA	Light	I saw a light flash like a plane out in my back yard but it didn't flash again so it caught my attention. Then it flashed again (white)	10/14/1999	10/19/1999
Open	10/17/1999 03:30	Signal Mountain	TN	USA	Cigar	saw bright orange light making qiuck movements,followed us for approximitly five miles, intersepted car causing electrical failure in c	10/18/1999	10/19/1999
Open	10/21/1999 21:00	Maryville/Sevierville	TN	USA	Cylinder	I heard area coyotes and dogs howling very loudly and when I went out side I saw a cylindar shaped object with lights in a repeated cir	10/22/1999	11/02/1999
Open	10/27/1999 23:55	Knoxville	TN	USA	Unknown	Unusual lights in sky moving and fading out.	10/27/1999	11/02/1999
Open	11/03/1999 03:30	Jackson	TN	USA	Light	heading eastbound I-40 about 2 miles west of Jackson and saw a red light that I thought was a meteorite, red in color. It came half way	11/05/1999	11/09/1999
Open		McMinnville	TN	USA	Rectangle	Saw strange light coming toward my car,turned off onto an adjoining road to intercept it.Object went right over me as I watched for 15	11/07/1999	11/09/1999
Open	07/01/1978 01:00	Memphis	TN	USA	Triangle	2 huge triangle shaped objects, low to the ground moving very slow. we follow them for several miles before they vanish.	11/12/1999	11/17/1999
Open	11/12/1999 20:30	Gray	TN	USA	Triangle	TRIANGLULAR SHAPED OBJECT OBSERVED APPROX 60 FEET ABOVE GROUND. SEVERAL LIGHTS AROUND PERIMITER, MANY COLORS. APPEARED TO HOVER. SOU	11/13/1999	11/17/1999
Open	11/14/1999 02:06	Bolivar	TN	USA	Light	A number of objects moving in sky with red and white lights in specific formations	11/14/1999	11/17/1999
Open	11/16/1999 18:05	Cookeville	TN	USA	Oval	At a stop light, caught my eye moving west to east north of cookeville. It was huge. It was moving in a downward slant. I watch it unti	11/16/1999	11/17/1999
Open	11/16/1999 18:20	Gallatin	TN	USA	Fireball	Green fireball - west to east flight - low on northern horizon - appeared to be color of burning copper - unable to gauge speed (no dis	11/16/1999	11/17/1999
Open	11/16/1999 18:05	Jamestown	TN	USA	Light	Husband saw a greenish/white streak that seemed to be motionless	11/17/1999	11/17/1999
Open	11/16/1999 18:00	Nashville (on I-24 ,60 mi. southeast of)	TN	USA	Fireball	FIREBALL GOING WEST TO EAST WITH A LONG FIREY TAIL. iI WATCHED THIS OBJECT FOR A MINUTE AND A HALF AS I WAS DRIVING WEST BOUND ON I-24	11/17/1999	11/17/1999
Open	11/16/1999 18:10	Sumner county	TN	USA	Fireball	Summary will include the UFO i saw while sitting in a car. I believe this not to have anything to do with a meteir shower because if th	11/16/1999	11/17/1999
Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Posted	Media