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Tennessee UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 2,293 UFO sighting reports in Tennessee to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (400 reports, 17.44% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (260 reports, 11.34% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (357 reports, 15.57% of total).
- 11/16/99 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (7 reports, 0.31% of total).
- 2014 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (150 reports, 6.54% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (1,036 reports, 45.18% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Tennessee
These Tennessee UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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Lights that fade in and out moving really fast! I work on a farm and a couple years ago while at work I saw a light that just kept getting real bright and then moved really fast across the sky and faded out. Sometimes there will be 3 or 4 lights at the same time! This is still happening to this day. It will happen in the same area over about a 2 month period and then stop for about a month and then they will just start showing up again but at a different spot and show up there every night for about 2 months and it just keeps going back and forth between the 2 spots.
I know for a fact that these are not airplanes or helicopters because I can watch planes fly by while these are showing up and they are just way too different, there is no noise and some of the moves these lights make is just incredible! I could show anyone these lights! I don't have a good camera to capture them with. I have filmed them on my phone before but it just looks like a light in the sky. The phone camera doesn't do it justice! Anyways thats my report.
I wish I could figure out what Im seeing. There have been other sightings in this area. One by my brother.
If you have any questions please reach out! Thanks.
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Noticed at first what we thought was a star that just appeared out of nowhere and moved from NW to SE very erractic. I was sitting on my back porch at 7:45pm and first noticed what I thought was a star but then it began moving from NW to SE direction, but then it made almost a diamond shape movement in the sky. Four different points it moved to A,B,C then back to original and began moving back SE again.
It was not blinking, was not an airplane or helicopter. It moved too fast from those points to be either of those two type of craft. I thought it may possibly be a drone, but a drone is not able to move that fast.
After losing sight of this one moving across the sky, then my family and I saw a Very Bright light appear in the sky out of nowhere. It was brighter than any star in the sky. At first I told them we were witnessing a supernova but then the bright light began moving from West to East direction.
I knew then for certain it was no supernova. After it moved about 15-20 degrees across the sky then it stopped and the lights seemed to pulse. It was then when my son said it looked like two planes with flashing lights were flying around, almost like maneuvering around the bright object.
It pulsed a bit brighter and then it disappeared into nothing. I always am the logical thinker and I know it wasn't a plane, satellite, star or supernova as it had characteristics that ruled each of those out. It was for sure brighter than the brightest stars in the sky.
It was probably twice the size or what Venus would be and much more brighter.
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Flying west to east above liberty church drive cigar shape 1 half still on fire - fire went out and a trail of smoke was seen flying west to east in line with liberty church drive guessing 40 feet in the air when I sighted it it was 1 half sill on fire the flames looked like a jet engine flames coming off 1 half of it the flame went out and I could see a trail of smoke no sound from the object.
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Black triangle craft silently traveling directly above me, emitting no sound save for a humming vibration that I could feel and hear. I was standing outside, admiring the clear night sky before I noticed this craft "flying" right over me, around 500ft. in the air traveling towards the West.
I scrambled as quickly as I could to snap a few pictures of it and a very short recording of the craft to showcase the complete lack of any blinking lights on the underside of the craft. It was completely silent save for the vibrational humming that filled the air that I could "feel" and "hear" all at once. The craft was traveling at a fairly decent and consistent speed without disturbing the environment around it.
The craft had one light on each corner of it, with one light in the middle of the craft. Towards the end of my sighting as it traveled towards the West, it just flat out disappeared from my vision. I don't really have any better way to describe it's disappearance other than it seemed to "fade away" for lack of a better explanation.
Please understand that the quality of my recording is less than desirable since I am using an older generation of Samsung Galaxy smartphone, that being the S10+. However, I wanted to record the craft's lack of blinking lights along with it "fading away" as I stated in my sighting detail earlier.
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The cluster or orbs were kind of stationary, but moved about within the group. I was heading north on route 109. I went through Laguardo headed towards Gallatin.
Somewhere in between I saw something in the sky that I initially thought were a flock of birds. While I tried to figure out what type of bird it was while driving, the cluster just disappeared. A moment later they seemed to reappear.
I pulled over, to continue watching because it just seemed so odd. I watched as the group was slowly changing position. They weren't in any kind of order.
So after I saw this happening, I decided it wasn't birds and it didn't seem possible that they were drones. It looked to be about 20 orbs or something. I took a couple of pictures from my windshield when I first pulled over.
Then I decided to get out of the car to view them. I couldn't tell if they were white or silver. Also I couldn't really tell the shape.
But they would be visible all at once and a moment later they'd all disappear. I couldn't even see any trace at all when they'd disappear. I wish I could have stayed longer.
They were still in the same place as I had first saw them, but I had to meet someone at noon, and I was already sure to be late. Most of the pictures don't show anything but I can see them in 2 of the photos. But still can't make out what it was.
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I observed a bright light in the eastern sky. A separate light shot out from it circled back and returned to it. Then they vanished At 3:35 AM I observed a bright light or light cluster in the sky to the east about 15° fro the horizon.
At first I thought it was a star or star cluster. Then it got brighter so I thought it may be an approaching airplane. It continued to get brighter, and then suddenly there was a second smaller light the shot or ejected from the initial light.
The second light was smaller, did a loop to the south of the first object, and returned to the first object. Once it had returned both objects disappeared. There were no clouds, no storms, and no sounds.
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My wife saw first on our road was 3 she called me went outside one broke away I saw 2 The was hovering ar first then going straight one broke off and zip away. 2 others followed one another.
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Black on top white on bottom shaped like a computer mouse. Saw it about 50ish feet above the water moving around 50 mph in a straight line over old hickory lake. It went under a bridge and I lost sight of it a few seconds later.
I was inside so I couldn't hear any sound, there was no smoke and no lights.
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Me and my cousin was sitting on Side porch and saw what we thought was ufo Me and my cousin was sitting out yesterday, January 9, 2024, talking about different stuff. I was just lookin up at the sky and saw a circular bright light super high up in sky going very fast, told my cousin to look to make sure we was seeing same thing and after 2-3 mins, it just disappeared even when I didn’t take my eye off of it. We looked up ufo sightings and it looked exactly like the videos!.
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Looked over at moon as plane went southwest turned to sit down and noticed object flashing in the sky Starting filming at 6:19 Several videos and one still Video enlarged in some captures Still visible.
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This has been happening for a week on a regular basis. It's like nothing I've ever seen and my son in law was USAF stationed on area 52. My sister and her 3 sons are seeing these nightly.
It reminds me of the Aurora Borealis the way it shifts but there are some type of crafts accompanying the atmosphere changes that morph color and play tag. I have tried to find a reasonable explanation but there is none. Law enforcement refuses to respond because our county is very meth stricken so they think she is on drugs hallucinating and she isn't.
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5 second pulsating light low altitude moving steady and fast I looked up in the sky and saw a low altitude pulsating light moving very fast then disappearing. It was overcast I could see a few stars and they were fuzzy just as this light was. I can see an airplane above I could see the cell towers from bays mountain.
I have seen all hemispheres of the sky. I have seen the Milky Way in Peru because of no light pollution. I have seen rockets I have seen starlink I have seen falling stars I have seen satellites and space stations.
I have seen the helicopters and airplanes and drones and cell towers. I have some meteors and comments and eclipses. This was none of these things.
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There was a light beam in the tree emitting a fireball to the ground I hope this email finds you well. My name is MichaelMcKinney, and I am writing to bring to your attention a peculiar occurrence I observed in my backyard yesterday. At approximately 11 til 2pm, I noticed a strange object in the night sky beaming down from above.
The sighting seemed unusual, and I thought it might be of interest to NASA. While I understand there could be various explanations for such phenomena, I wanted to report it in case it aligns with any ongoing observations or investigations. Please find the attached videos for your reference.
I appreciate your time and attention to this matter. Thank you for your dedication to exploring and understanding the mysteries of our universe.
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Triangle shape only saw one light in the front and two in the rear. Was not super high in the air and made a low/soft humming noise. I was standing outside stargazing with my two small children.
I noticed a craft out of the corner of my eye and disregarded it as an airplane. My youngest daughter asked “dad, what’s that” I told her “it is an airplane” Then I paused and said “but it’s the wrong shape……with the wrong lights…. And wrong sound” I wish I had gotten a video but at that point it was in the tree line.
It moved pretty slow and the sound was a low humming sound. Grew up on Air Force bases. Did not sound like a plane to me.
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The effects the witness described are created by changes in the cameras ability to focus.
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Taking Video out airplane window as we started to descend from 37k ft I was watching a video I posted online of my plane’s decent. When I noticed 2 flashes of light one coming and one going extremely fast So fast I did not see it while filming the video only week later did I notice these events while watching the video objects are moving extremely fast It was a clean blue sky We were just starting to enter the clouds as you can see in the video Please watch video very closely and look for the streak of white lights one coming and going in the left hand corner.
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I have a video but it's basically lights going back and forth and around and around in a circle. Wasn't enough room for my video but sent it to engimalabs and I have a full video 5-6 min long.
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Flashing lights seen on a craft hovering above the neighborhood I looked out the window at what i thought was a plane, but it was going too slow. Eventually it stopped and went backwards before hovering. It started to go back the direction it was going, but then it started to descend, still flashing red and white lights the whole time.
I lost sight of it when it dipped low, obstructed by a roof. I tried to record it, but it was too dark outside and the object was too far away for a good photo.
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Saw strange round lights from car I was driving home and saw bright flashing light in the sky to the west.It moved very fast in erratic ways.I videoed it for 19 minutes.
At one point there was another object that approached it stopped directly beside it then moved away.It had red lights and wasn’t picked up by my camera.If you know what this was I would love to know.
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Red orb rises straight up then disappears My son and I just saw a ufo that was a red dot the size of mars when its close. It then went straight up 75ft and as we watched it slowed… so I said "we don’t wanna talk or have nothing to do with you" and it instantly went out. It reminds me of the night I first mailed you.
It was more of a wiil of wisp then a ufo. Just happened five minutes ago.
Tennessee UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 400 reported sightings | 17.44% of all reports |
Circle | 245 reported sightings | 10.68% of all reports |
Triangle | 244 reported sightings | 10.64% of all reports |
Unknown | 170 reported sightings | 7.41% of all reports |
Other | 142 reported sightings | 6.19% of all reports |
Sphere | 142 reported sightings | 6.19% of all reports |
Fireball | 141 reported sightings | 6.15% of all reports |
Disk | 133 reported sightings | 5.80% of all reports |
Oval | 107 reported sightings | 4.67% of all reports |
Cigar | 86 reported sightings | 3.75% of all reports |
Cylinder | 65 reported sightings | 2.83% of all reports |
Formation | 63 reported sightings | 2.75% of all reports |
Changing | 62 reported sightings | 2.70% of all reports |
Rectangle | 35 reported sightings | 1.53% of all reports |
Flash | 35 reported sightings | 1.53% of all reports |
Diamond | 32 reported sightings | 1.40% of all reports |
Chevron | 23 reported sightings | 1.00% of all reports |
Egg | 20 reported sightings | 0.87% of all reports |
Teardrop | 16 reported sightings | 0.70% of all reports |
Orb | 10 reported sightings | 0.44% of all reports |
Cone | 8 reported sightings | 0.35% of all reports |
Cross | 5 reported sightings | 0.22% of all reports |
Star | 3 reported sightings | 0.13% of all reports |
Tennessee UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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October | 260 reported sightings | 11.34% of all reports |
November | 232 reported sightings | 10.12% of all reports |
September | 221 reported sightings | 9.64% of all reports |
August | 221 reported sightings | 9.64% of all reports |
July | 201 reported sightings | 8.77% of all reports |
June | 190 reported sightings | 8.29% of all reports |
April | 173 reported sightings | 7.54% of all reports |
May | 162 reported sightings | 7.06% of all reports |
February | 155 reported sightings | 6.76% of all reports |
December | 152 reported sightings | 6.63% of all reports |
March | 150 reported sightings | 6.54% of all reports |
January | 144 reported sightings | 6.28% of all reports |
Tennessee UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 357 reported sightings | 15.57% of all reports |
Thursday | 327 reported sightings | 14.26% of all reports |
Monday | 325 reported sightings | 14.17% of all reports |
Wednesday | 321 reported sightings | 14.00% of all reports |
Friday | 317 reported sightings | 13.82% of all reports |
Sunday | 312 reported sightings | 13.61% of all reports |
Tuesday | 302 reported sightings | 13.17% of all reports |
Tennessee UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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11/16/99 | 7 reported sightings | 0.31% of all reports |
07/04/10 | 7 reported sightings | 0.31% of all reports |
03/29/19 | 7 reported sightings | 0.31% of all reports |
11/28/06 | 6 reported sightings | 0.26% of all reports |
08/02/14 | 6 reported sightings | 0.26% of all reports |
Tennessee UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 1,036 reported sightings | 45.18% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 458 reported sightings | 19.97% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 303 reported sightings | 13.21% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 185 reported sightings | 8.07% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 164 reported sightings | 7.15% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 115 reported sightings | 5.02% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Tennessee
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Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Tennessee
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Tennessee