NUFORC Sighting 130675

Occurred: 2016-10-17 19:30 Local
Reported: 2016-10-18 06:44 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Bybee, TN, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Triangular Shape w/very bright orange light w/2 smaller lights seen on a rural road going home.

I am a skeptic. Still not sure what I saw and wasn’t going to report anything, but after reading about the siting in Gatlinburg not too long ago, I thought maybe I should report it.

The time it happened was around 7:30pm in Cocke County on a rural road on October 17, 2016. There were two lights in the sky. One very bright (orange in color), the other seemed to be orbiting around it slowly at first. I thought maybe it was just a satellite and a planet because I am a big star gazer and can identify different objects in the sky fairly well.

I kept watching and as I drove close the one very bright star got brighter and there was a third star that appeared which made the triangular shape. I gasped because the shape was slightly darker than the rest of the sky.

The size was unmeasurable. It was so big. I have seen a lot of planes fly through our small part of the woods, but nothing like this.

My heart sank. I was so frightened. It only lasted a moment, and the lights faded leaving only the bright star and the first smaller star dimly lit in the night sky.

As I drove, the tree line took over my view. I kept watching and calculating where the object or stars…things would be in the sky when my car turned in that direction again, but I was unable to locate it.

NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

Posted 2016-10-21