Tennessee UFO Sightings in 2001

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Triangular Craft seen in Nashville Tennessee We were driving down hwy 100 in Nashville driving by Percy Warner Park area when above the hill we saw a triangular craft about 100 ft across going over the hill away from of us we saw about 2/3 of the object. we saw two white lights and a red one in the middle the third white light must of been on its fron already over the hill. Our background is that we all work in a music studio in Bellevue in Davidson county and we were driving to my house to get some more reel to reel tape for the recording machines at rob's house/studio.

It was about 1:50 am. I have seen other objects in the past couple of years in the same area but not a triangle craft until now.

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slowly arching light brightens into flame then trails into oblivion my wife and i were returning home from an outing. it was approximately 7:30 p.m.

i had gotten my sleepy daughter from the back, passenger side child seat. i love to view the night skies. i was standing in the driveway looking upward, as i usually do when arriving back home at night.

i noticed that from the west, from up over the roof from the back side of our home, a very brilliant fireball/reddish looking light. i at first thought it may have been a satellite because of the slower-than-a-falling-star motion and the way it arched across the sky. i commented out loud as to how unusual that was.

(my wife doesn't get into that kind of stuff like i do) i watched it trail almost directly overhead in an easterly direction then slightly bank. it still continued in an easterly direction but the color changed to a very brilliant red and seemed to either be on fire or reflecting the sun, considering it's apparent altitude. i have studied aircraft for years and had even started pilot training several years ago.

(ran out of money) i would judge the altitude to be something upwards of 50,000 ft. it initially appeared to be a satellite. i watched it seem to leave a 'dust' trail as it slowly seemed to burn up.

perhaps it could have been a deliberate attempt to destroy some 'space junk'. i'm not sure. i thought that it would be unusual to 'destroy' a satellite in that manner, though probably not completely out of the question.

the entire viewing pleasure lasted approximately 7-15 seconds. who knows. perhaps there were more sets of eyes that had the privilege of seeing the abnormality, as well.

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V shaped blurry craft with lights. Extremely fast velocity I was out watching the Leonids shower at around 4:30 when I saw just above the horizon, a V shaped craft. It was fading in and out as if it was a Star Trek cloaking device.

It had lights on the outward V. It moved from the North to the South linearly, amazingly fast without a sound. Absolutely amazing.

A skeptic would claim that it was part of the meteor shower, but it was most definitely not. Very clear night out. It was above the horizon in the western sky.

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A glowing cylinder I was on the mountain visiting friends that night.I went to the car to get a pack of cigarettes and I looked up and saw an orangish redish glowing cylinder,like a glowing ember in the fire.The glowing did not go past the edges of the cylinder and on either end it was rounded.

It came down at about an eighty degree angle and flew downside the mountain and then leveled off at the foot and flew parallel to the valley and went about a half mile and then disappeared.It was heading west.There was no sound.

I was fairly close to this and I think it was the length of a school bus.

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On Sat. Nov 17th, while viewing the Leonid Meteor shower from a scenic overlook on the Cherohala Skyway outside of Tellico Plains, TN, I noticed what at first looked like a bright star, about 150% the size of the planet Venus, above the ridge of a distant mountain. As I looked back at the object a second, and third, time, I could see that something was just "different" with this "star".

At this point I asked the two people with me to take a look as well. With their younger eyes they verified that it couldn't be a star, insomuch as it was showing two separate colors, green, and, yellow. At this point, we pulled out the binoculars for a closer look, and could just discern an irregular shape, as well as a twinkling, or pulsing of the colors.

Also, we noticed that the object had risen higher above the ridge line, and seemed to be a bit further away. Our total viewing time was approximately 30 minutes before we were forced to leave the mountain due to the cold temperature. As we departed, the object was still in it's position, ruling out the possibility of an aircraft.

Also, with the 25 mph (est) winds that were blowing, a weather ballon would have long since been blown away. This one goes down as "unidentified" in my book. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witnesses may have been observing a star, perhaps "Sirius," which rises in the east.

The date of the sighting appears to be Sunday morning, November 18; we have changed the date here. PD)).

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Second sighting from the same general ground location, though not in the same location in the sky. I had previously reported spotting a black object flying very low and very fast over Winchester Road after dawn on 11/02/01. I had absolutely no expectation of seeing another unusual object in the sky, and yet that is precisely what occurred this morning.

My account has two parts, so please bear with me. Part I: Leaving for work at 5:28 a.m.

, I stepped into my garage and hit the button to lift the door. (I looked at the digital clock just before I stepped out.) Moving alongside my car after the door was up, I saw the newspaper in our driveway and decided to pick it up before I left.

Before I made it to the driveway, however, a very definite and very well-defined and lengthy shadow flitted across the driveway and our front lawn. There was absolutely no sound associated with the passing of this shadow. I'm not the nervous type, but the shadow startled me so that I jumped into my car instead of going out to pick up the paper.

I'd never seen anything like this before. It was still quite dark, but a street light illuminates our entire yard to a certain extent. My first impression was that something huge had flown beneath the street light and cast the shadow.

This explanation was quickly discarded due to the physical impossibility of such an event, but I was puzzled by what I saw. It appeared that our cat had been startled as well by the passing shadow because she ducked for cover under a hedge. Part II: Seven minutes later.

It is now 5:35 a.m., an hour before sunrise, and I am traveling east on Winchester Road.

There is almost no traffic. The sky is mostly clear. It's 48 degrees, and the winds are calm.

A few stars are visible, even though there are city lights nearby. I am going to work early to complete a project. I've put all thoughts of the "shadow" behind me as I mentally prepare for the day ahead.

The usual Fed Ex jets are flying past on their west-to-east flight paths, leaving Memphis International Airport, and I pay them little attention. However, as I passed the Nike plant on my left, I noticed a "plane" that seemed much lower in the sky than normal for this part of the landing and take-off pattern. It definitely caught my attention.

It appeared to be hovering in place at a spot just east of the Nike plant on the north side of Winchester Road. This area is about five miles away from my home. I slowed down and came almost to a stop to get a better look at the "plane.

" It was my perception that it was not moving at all. As I studied it, I realized that there was no strobe light on it. It also did not cast its lights ahead of it, as you would normally expect to see the lights of a jet beamed straight ahead.

Instead there were three white lights aimed downward. It was then that I perceived that I was looking at a triangular-shaped craft with three bright white lights, one at each corner, and a single red light in the middle of the underside of the craft. The craft was approximately the size of a fifty-cent piece held at arm's length.

If I had to guess, I would estimate that it was about a quarter to a half-mile away from me, hovering in place. It exhibited no motion whatsoever, and from my perspective, seemed to be hovering over an empty field. I got quite a good look at it for a period of time I would estimate as long as two minutes.

(I regret not having the presence of mind to roll down my window and listen for any sounds. I was too surprised by what I was seeing.) I continued heading slowly eastward until I lost sight of the object as I passed some trees.

It was then that I resolved to make a quick U-turn and go back and get another look. I found a place about two blocks farther on to turn around, and I raced back to look at the object again. There was no trace of it whatsoever! I searched the sky for several minutes in vain.

The object had quite simply vanished. What I saw was very definitly NOT a star. It was not Venus or Jupiter.

I know what the planets look like when they rise in the east. This object was in the northern sky as I faced east. The object was NOT a light on top of a cell phone tower or a utility tower.

(I checked on the way home, and there are no towers of any kind in the vicinity of my sighting.) It was also very definitely NOT one of the Fed Ex jets. I had an opportunity to compare the object to the jets flying past in the background, and they were very different.

This craft was lower than the jets, and the lights appeared to be of a different intensity. I have no explanation for what I saw, but I decided to give as detailed an account as possible so that others in the Memphis area can keep an eye out for such an object in the sky. It might possibly be one of our own aircraft, keeping watch over the skys in this area during this troubled time.

If so, it seems to be a remarkable craft indeed. Of course, I have no way of knowing if the shadow flitting across my lawn was related in any way to the object I spotted a few minutes later in the sky. When I got home this evening, I saw that a bright light traveling behind one of the tall trees near our driveway could have produced such a moving shadow.

The light would have had to have had much greater candle power than the street light, however. I've lived in this home for over a decade and have never witnessed such a phenomenon before.

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spherical metallic object witt tail on leading edge Since sep 11, I have had a habit of looking up to i.d aircraft as they fly over. Clouds at this time are cirrus, high and broken, when a tiny spot caught my eye.

At first ,I thought it was a weather baloon(if they still use them), it was at about 35-65 thousand feet, above the clouds,aircraft are below them at cruising altitude, so it passes behind clouds, moving s.se in a zig zag type of movement. As the object gets about 70 degrees of my vertical, it seems to develope a "tail" as would something entering the atmosphere, except the tail is formed on the front of the object(in the direction of movement) As the "tail" grew, the object accelerated, s.

se, out of sight behind trees blocking my view. Through binoculars the object was a perfect shiny silver- metallic looking sphere although it reflected no sunlight.The "tail" appendage looked simply like an afterburner on a aircraft except in scale to size it was three times as large as the sphere it'sself.

All I can say is wow! ((NUFORC Note: One of several seemingly quite credible reports from same witness. We have spoken with the witness on several occasions, and he seems quite credible and objective. PD)).

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On 11-08-1001 at approx. 1615 hrs. I was looking up in the sky when traveling due North I saw a bright light traveling at an extremely high speed.

I watched it for about 15 to 20 seconds and it disappeared from sight. I thought at first it was an airplane, but it was traveling too fast at the height it seemed to be. I heard absolutely no noise associated with jet aircraft,(I used to be a jet aircraft mechanic so I know what to listen for when you see one.

) This is not the first time I have seen things unexplained in the air. I need to be contacted about this soon. I work with the ((public agency)) so I not about to report a hoax!! Thanks for your time.

((name and contact information deleted)).

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very large greenish/white very bright diamond shaped object beside what appeared to be a star,which was much smaller, it was daybreak and no other stars were in the sky, just the sun coming up in the east, the object was in the east sky. it did not move, twinkle or hover, it just remained still.

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Daylight sighting of a black object moving at high speed below low cloud cover. I was on my way to work, traveling eastbound on Winchester Road, just outside of the Memphis city limits. There was a low cloud cover, and the sun was not visible in the sky.

I noticed a long, black object traveling at high speed beneath the clouds. It appeared on my left, to the north, and moved in a southerly direction. For a split-second, I thought I might be watching a flock of geese flying over, as we have many geese in the area.

However, the object was traveling far faster than any flock of geese could fly. There appeared to be a black "smudge" behind the object. I at first thought this might be a black vapor trail, but the "smudge" didn't linger in the sky.

The "smudge" seemed to move in tandem with the object. The object first appeared as a black line then changed to an acute triangular shape. It struck me as odd that the edges of the object appeared to be blurred and somewhat indistinct.

Nevertheless, the most striking feature of the object was the speed with which it traveled across the sky. I cannot begin to estimate its speed, but it was out of sight within seconds. I'm a professional with two college degrees.

I've lived near the flight paths of Memphis International Airport for the past sixteen years and enjoy "sky watching" during the day and at night. I've never seen anything to compare with what I saw this morning. I'm hoping someone else may have seen the object too and will report it to your web site.

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Brillant round craft that hoovered in the morning sky in Tennessee. I was driving my 14 year old son to school, in Chestnut Hill Tennessee, we were on Old Newport Highway. I Was driving about 50MPH when I noticed a brillant, shiny, metallic object in the Eastern sky.

I was stunned because I knew that it was not an airplane, nor was it a helicopter because it did not move. It Was hovering. I told my son to look at it and he was as shocked as I was.

It was about the height that a helicopter would fly, but it was definitely not a helicopter. It then shot up at an 11:00 o clock angle and was out of the atmosphere in a matter of micro-seconds. My mother was in the back seat of the car and leaned over the seat and saw it as well.

I work at a business in Gatlinburg, Tn. and am very conservative. I have a college education, and I have NEVER encountered anything like this before.

I knew when I looked up at it what it was.it was an incredible experience. Thank you.

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Mufon has confirmed sightings here before. It has rotated with the stars for the past 2 nights in the north-eastern sky. It displays yellow,red,blue,and white colors.

Blinking brightly. At first I thought it might be a helicopter; but as time progressed it seems to move with the stars. I have a Jason Rotary Power 540 telescope and spent at least 30 mins trying to see what the object is but as yet; still no clue.

Whatever it may be it doesnt look normal. Check it out and see what you can figure out.Its not hard to find.

It sticks out like a sore thumb. ((NUFORC Note: Given that the object of interest was viewed for 3.5 hours, we suspect that it may be a celestial body, either a star or planet.

Only inspection of the object, and its location in the night sky, could resolve whether the object is anything unusual. PD)).

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Star-like object moves slowly and hovers at high altitude over Memphis at mid-day. The incident took place in mid-day under clear skies. While in my backyard, I saw a commercial aircraft going overhead apparently only moments after take off from the local airport.

I glanced up at the plane and noticed, in the blue sky at a much higher altitude, a star like object. Had the plane not passed over, I probably would never have noticed the object. It looked like a star of average brightness, but this was 1 in the afternoon, and the only object of its kind visible.

The object moved very slowly from east to west, perhaps slightly southwest. At one point, the object abruptly changed its course and moved south for about one minute. Then it once again resumed its westerly course.

As I said, the object moved at what appeared to be a very low speed and was at high altitude. While watching, I observed two high flying commercial jets flying over Memphis, apparently bypassing the city enroute to other destinations. These planes were leaving contrails, but appeared to be at a lower altitude than the object.

They were also moving at a considerably higher speed than the object. At one point the object came to a dead stop in the sky. It appeared to hover over what appeared to be the center of the city for at least ten minutes.

It was absolutely stationary. It then resumed its westerly course. There were no erratic manuevers or sudden changes in speed other other than the 10 minute period of hovering and the brief change of direction to the south I mentioned.

The object moved in straight lines. I ruled out a balloon figuring winds at such an altitude would have driven the object across the sky at a much faster rate, and balloons tend not to hover and remain stationary for ten minutes at a time. The entire sighting lasted aproximately 30 minutes and the object could not have covered more than 45-50 degrees of arc in the sky during this time.

It did not appear to emit light of its own. It reflected sunlight and the intensity of the reflection varied as it moved across the sky. I am not a trained observer, but if this object was indeed as high as I thought, flying higher than airliners bypassing Memphis, it must have been a rather large craft based on the intensity of the reflection.

I followed its course with the naked eye until I lost sight of it as it moved into the path of the sun.

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Silver disc the width of the jet stream of a jet appeared between two jets heading for each other. At 9:40 A.M.

on 10/26/01, my wife and I were traveling to Nashville, Tennessee on I 24the sky was completely clear except for the trail of jet streams of two jets we noticed in the sky. As we were traveling south toward Nashville, I noticed two jets that appeared to be heading toward each other. One was heading east and one heading west.

Out of bewilderment, we continued to observe the planes. After watching for approximately two minutes, suddenly, a bright silver appearing disc shaped object (the width of the jet stream itself) appeared between the two planes and swooped into the jet stream of the plane coming from the east and traveled the entire length of that plane's stream in approximately 2-3 seconds and disappeared. As soon as the object disappeared, both planes verred away from their paths and appeared to go in opposite directions.

Needless to say, in light of the attacks on Washington and the World Trade Center, we assumed the planes were military aircraft zeroing in on something picked up on radar; however, as we both observed, what ever the object was, it was certainly too fast for our jets to intercept.

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An oval shaped object with brillant multi colored lights in the north sky not moving.Was very hard to distinguish with my eyes but it was definately oval shaped with brillant multi-colored lights around it.

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Very clear view of something that was NOT an airplane gliding in the night sky ; a "v" like shape with lights It was more like a huge boomerang with lights along the leading edge. it could have been a disk with lights on a the leading edge, but it had somewhat of a chevron shape.

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Letter "A" Shaped Glowing White sharp edged object seen near slivered-moon Triangle, Letter "A" without middle bar shaped object glowing white seen to upper right of sliver-lit moon in east in the morning. Object was stationary and about the size of 5 stares all grouped together. Object was sharp edged with tip of the "A" pointed to the south almost away from the moon.

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Light Orange Sphere One light orange sphere was noticed at about 80 degrees from horizon facing North. A commercial passenger jet passed over my view of it, so its altitude was much higher than that of a commercial jet. Its movement was very slow.

It slowly moved South then stopped for a few minutes. It resumed changing its direction to the East then stopped again for a few minutes. Then it changed its direction to Southwest and moved slowly in that direction.

Then it disappeared. Seemed to stretch into a oval when initiating movement after being stationary; then once moving it returns into a sphere.

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RECTANGLE MIMICED NIGHT SKY & STARS SEEN DURING YR. OF COMET PASSING NEAR EARTH FIRST OF ALL I HAVE ONLY SHARED THIS ONLY WITH 2 PEOPLE THE NEXT DAY AND FROM THE LOOKS THEY GAVE ME I NEVER TOLD ANOTHER SOUL. IT HAPPEN THE YEAR WE HAD THAT MEATOR SHOWER FROM A COMET THAT PRODUCED SEVERAL NIGHTS OF ENJOYMENT OF SHOOTING STARS.

I WAS STANDING IN THE LOT NEXT TO OUR HOME ENJOYING THE MULTI FALLING STARS AND SEEING HOW MANY I COULD COUNT. WHILE SCANING THE SKY WITH MY NAKED EYES SOMETHING COUGHT MY EYE IN THE NORTH EASTERN SKY MOVING MY DIRECTION. IT LOOKED LIKE A GROUP OF MOVING STARS.

AS IT APPROCHED MY LOCATION THE "STAR" PATTERN WAS IN THE SHAPE OF A RECTANGLE WITH "STAR" LIKE OBJECTS FILLING IN THE SPACES OF THE OBJECT AS IT PASSED DIRECTLY OVER HEAD IT WAS ONLY APPOX. 20 TO 50 FEET ABOVE TREE TOPS. IT WAS HUGE! AT THAT POINT I COULD TELL THAT THE "STARS" WERE LIGHTS ON THE DARK RECTANGLE THAT BORDERED THE EDGES AND FILLED THE CENTER.

AS IT FLEW OVER ME THE NIGHT SKY ABOVE WAS REPLACED WITH THIS LOOK A LIKE NIGHT SKY AS IT CONTINUED OVER HEAD SOUTH WESTWARD I STOOD WAITING FOR THE AFTER SOUNDS OF ENGINE NOISES THAT NEVER CAME. "THERE WAS NEVER NONE IT WAS NO SOUND OTHER THAN THE CRICKETS IN THE GRASS WITH ME" PLEASE IF ANYONE KNOWS IF WE "USA" HAVE THIS TYPE OF AIRCRAFT THAT IS SOUNDLESS AND CAN MIMIC THE NIGHT SKY, I CAN DISMISS THIS FROM MY MIND AS A UFO. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate.

PD)).

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Silent black triangle moving slowly in urban environment This occurred while I was in college. While 9/11 was a traumatic event for everybody, I was not personally connected with the tragedy and was not overly emotionally distraught. I also was not under the influence of any alcohol or drugs.

Shortly after nightfall, I was walking to a parking garage at the corner of West End and 21st Avenue. A large black triangle, no lights, moved from west to east over West End. It was traveling very slowly.

No noise. It was a cloudy evening with low cloud ceiling, and could not have been more than 2 or 3000 feet in elevation. The object appeared to be massive, and was pitch black in color and clearly silhouetted against the light glare from the streetlights on the clouds.

The sighting was associated with a feeling of dread. I lingered on the street corner for around half an hour after the object had left and did not see any other UFO. I did not tell anybody at the time because it seemed crazy; I remember speculating that it might be defense related given the events of the day.