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Tennessee UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 54 UFO sighting reports in Tennessee from 2021 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "triangle" (8 reports, 14.81% of total).
- November is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (7 reports, 12.96% of total).
- Monday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (11 reports, 20.37% of total).
- 08/30/21 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 3.70% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (23 reports, 42.59% of total).
Tennessee UFO Sighting Reports in 2021
This is a sampling of 20 Tennessee UFO reports from 2021, 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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Objects where flying in two staggered v shaped formations. They approached from the south east heading northwest. Objects appeared to be flying low and at an unnatural rate of speed.
They made no sound and glowed brighter as they flew over. One object from the rear of the formation on the right side of the right formation my left rotated with the lead object. When the object rotated it got brighter and the lead object that rotated to the rear of the formation dimmed down.
I can not determine exact size or shape of crafts. I can say that the objects appeared to fly low because of their size. Size compared to that of a vehicle.
Best I can explain it was like watching a boat approaching the shore line being level with your eyes and then flying overhead then disappearing from field of view. We see planes flying south west from Nashville all the time at about causing altitude so they should have seen these objects on radar.
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MADAR Node 32 .
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Orange glow spheres traveling west to east going prob 10-20 mph with orange /yellow glow I was on my back porch of my one story duplex type apartment facing North to let my dog out. I noticed about 200 yards away at about maybe 200 ft up a orange /yellow sphere traveling left to right, West to East at maybe 20 mph it seemed. Pretty low and slow.
Then I noticed the second same orange/yellow sphere ahead further to the right/East traveling the same exact speed . I took a video but it was too unclear. It was silent and way too low , smooth for an aircraft as well as silent.
They traveled in the West to East direction for approximately 20-30 seconds then they disappeared. I immediately called my fiancé to joke with her if I disappear, aliens took me. I am 36 and have hunted, served in the military , traveled extensively and have NEVER felt the way I did when I watched these spheres / glowing balls that night.
It was almost elegant . So smooth.
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Bright light moving through sky then disappeared I saw a bright light in the sky (Dec 13, 2021, 5:41am) traveling towards the south. At first I thought it was an airplane since it was close to their normal flight path. I managed to get one photo and was adjusting my phone to record a video.
Just as I put my phone towards the object it disappeared. Just “poof”, gone. The night was VERY clear with no clouds in the area.
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One red light moving switly west to east, becoming 3 red lights in a triangle shape after passing our zenith Standing in the driveway of a friends house, looking up at the waning moon and Jupiter et al and we both noticed a dim red steady light moving west to east through the planets positions in the sky. We both remarked on it, me thinking it was a dimly lit satellite. That was contested by my friend by saying it was moving too fast and was too low.
I quickly agreed with him. I said to keep our eyes on it to see if anything "off" about it happens. When it moved past our zenith, two more dim red lights presented themselves forming the shape of a perfect triangle.
My perception was the the two additional lights were obscured by a solid object until our visual angle on it changed enough to reveal them. Watched it as it went out of our ability to see it any longer, about 20 seconds or so. The lights could have been part of one object or possibly 3 separate objects, most likely the former though.
Light pollution in our area is horrible. It was about 2k (best guesstimate) in altitude, maybe a bit lower. Speed was faster than commercial craft flying at the same time but not remarkably so.
Never acted non-ballistic, was very steady in its course, no deviations. I work at TYS at night and see aircraft all night long and this wasn't one. No strobes or navigation lights.
No sound, coasting across the sky like it was on a rail. Could not see a solid shape but could infer one by how the lights revealed themselves to us. Skies were clear, temps cool and no surface wind.
Nothing super spectacular about it, just unusual.
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MADAR Node 32 .
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Enormous orange light hovering then disappearing At approximately 7:55pm EST, I was traveling S/SW when I noticed an enormous orange light HIGH in the southwestern sky. I thought it was strange for Venus to be so orange and bright and high at this hour, so I slowed my car and pointed my EarthSky app in its direction and got nothing that should have been there. Venus was below the horizon and like I said, it was bigger and brighter than when I’ve seen even Arcturus or Sirius at their brightest.
And it was VERY ORANGE. I drove to the end of the road where a public boat launch is located. I come to this place often to look at the stars due to the wide-open viewing area over the lake.
At this point, the orange light was much lower in the sky, hanging just above the houses on the opposite shore of the lake (looking straight out from the boat launch, which is SW…to my left are the Great Smoky Mountains in the S and to my right are the distant lights of our small downtown to the W…where I watch the sunset). The light appeared motionless as if it were a planet (even though it clearly wasn’t as high as it had been a few minutes earlier). I viewed the light through my binoculars which I rested on the roof of my car to stabilize my view.
It looked like an orange sphere with maybe even a black shadow on the right side. I got back in my car and I took a video with my iPhone8plus through my open passenger window. The time stamp on the video is 8:01pm and the video is 48 seconds long.
The camera is zoomed in to its max and you can see the light hovering over the house iights on the opposite shore. Even though the video is shaky, the light never appeared to move or even “twinkle” to my eye. I quit recording and continued to attempt identification with my sky app (and make sure it was properly calibrated).
As I pointed my phone towards the light about a minute and a half later, the light was gone. GONE. I immediately filmed again to say “it’s gone !” and the timestamp on that 26 second video is 8:04pm.
I never detected movement of the light with my naked eye (like one would with a plane or a satellite), but I clearly observed this light at two very different heights above the horizon within minutes…and then the light just not being there at all. On the map provided, circle 1 is where I first observed the light, circle 2 is where I stopped my car on the road to look at it through my app, and circle 3 is where I observed the object through my binoculars and took the videos.
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Fast moving UFO sighted I live in Memphis, TN. I was walking down T.M.
Henderson between Woodlawn and Tully, heading towards Tully, when I happened to look at the sky and saw a UFO appear in the sky ahead of me. It was a single bright speck of yellowish-white light, moving forward relative to my direction at a speed far faster than any aircraft I've ever seen, then it curved off to the right and disappeared again. The whole thing was took place in about a second, at about 9:55 pm local time, which unfortunately did not give me enough time to get it on camera.
I've believed in UFOs and aliens for a long time, but this was my first time ever seeing one. I'm still amazed by what I saw.
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MADAR Node 32 .
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Woke to take my dog for a walk at around 3:15 a.m. I tend to always look up at the night sky asking to see something and as of this morning it finally occurred.
I saw what looked like a meteorite entering the atmosphere at my 3 o'clock position from where I was facing. Almost exactly after the brilliant flash I looked almost directly over me due to an object that took my attention moving silently in a straight path going to my 11 o'clock position. It should go to notice that the flash from the meteorite was vast apart as it was over the horizon and the ufo was closer as it seemed to be below clouds.
The object seemed to be either round or at least partially circular and maybe cloaked to hide it. The best way to describe it is that the lights were blurred or had a strange glowing mist around them. It had maybe 10 lights in a line stacked in a curve that I could see.
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While operating a flight New York to San Francisco near the Ohio/Indiana border, I saw what looked initially like a satellite however it became apparent that it was operating in a figure eight pattern. We were on about a 250 degree course and what I saw was about 40 degrees to our right and at very high altitude and seemingly quite distant laterally and I’m assuming upper atmospheric or even higher. It took approximately 3-4 minutes to complete a turn and become visible again and it looked like it was being lit by the sun very much like a satellite would.
As I stated however, after completing a circle, it turned in a direction opposite of its prior turn producing a figure eight pattern. After about 1.5 to 2 hours, I lost sight of the object until approaching the front range near Denver where I saw it again only this time there was what appeared to be 2 vehicles making a left turn.
I lost sight of them permanently afterwards. In all my years of flying, I’ve never anything like that.
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All-black rectangular object flying very low and slow The lady's husband saw it first while he was outside in the driveway. He yelled to her to come out quickly. Flying overhead was a huge, all-black rectangle-shaped object, shaped exactly like a shirt box.
This was at approximately 3 pm. It was also flying extremely low, possibly a couple hundred feet off the ground. It was approximately 250' L x 100' W x 25' H and moved at an exceptionally slow rate of speed.
They couldn't fathom how something so large could stay up in the air. It had no signs of propulsion, no jets, no propellers, nothing. She had grown up around airplanes and she knew it should not be able to fly.
Yet, it was. It had no protrusions from its surface. The only thing it did have is, on just the underside, it had different colored blinking lights.
The lights were red, yellow, blue, white and maybe other colors, but she didn't recall. They weren't in a pattern, but randomly placed. They did not blink in any type of unison, but random blinking.
It made a very loud constant sound, sort of what a blimp sounded like in the 1980's. She didn't know what they sound like now. It was flying from NNW to SSE, which is not a flight path of any planes that normally fly over their property.
It finally went behind the tree line and couldn't be seen anymore. Then they saw another one, off in the distance flying from SE to NW. It was far away, but you could still tell it was the same thing.
They were sorry that they couldn't remember exact day and had no pictures, but thought they should pass it along anyway. (MUFON CMS).
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Orange object in sky. Driving down 11w and see an orange ball/triangular shaped object in sky. Object did not appear to be moving and suddenly disappeared.
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It was hovering and had one green light and one white light. I was driving and could not pull over to take a picture. I could only see the front light, white, and the back light, green.
Since it was dark, I could not really tell what the shape was. It appeared to be hovering and was not very high up. I estimate it was a little further up than a telephone tower.
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MADAR Node 33.
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MADAR Node 32.
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Observed a bright object next to the moon against a clear blue morning sky. Not a single cloud, jet trail, plane, nothing in the sky. Noticed object looking NNW while driving.
Thought it may be Venus (as it was bright and near the moon) when first noticed. Glanced back to the sky and saw that it was an actual object. Assumed it was a plane as it appeared white, but wings and tail were not visible.
Assumed the sun must have been shining just so on the aircraft to skew the visibility of the wings and tail. Found this interesting and kept inspecting between glances at the road while driving. Seem rounder and short in length than a commercial jet.
Appearance resembled a white blimp, but seemed too far away to be a visible blimp. After another glance at the road, looked back up and object was gone. No jet trails, no debris in the sky, nothing.
The entire sky was clear with zero evidence of the craft. Satellite tracking shows zero visible satellites (or stars or planets!) in that area on that day at that time. No weather balloons in the area.
No commercial blimps. I have searched everywhere for an explanation. Nothing.
I’m wondering if I saw a tic tac?.
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Diamond/Prism object, spinning on an axis. Lasted 7-9 minutes joined by darker than night mother ship and then another diamond Prism jo At approximately 8 pm I spotted what looked similar to a metallic inflated celebration balloon. I only glanced at the object initially, but as I began to look away from the object, I realized it was more like a prism, and I focused on the object.
What I observed appeared to be about half the distance between myself and the clouds and was traveling against the wind. At times it appeared to be very thin, and I realized that the prism effect that I noticed earlier was caused by the object rolling or spinning on an axis. It was definitely a constructed solid object like a giant diamond colored metal something.
As soon as I realized this I went literally screaming into the house " Sherri, Payton come as fast as you can NOW!! And almost tore the door off getting back outside. We observed this object until it was out of site. I never once deviated from it's course or changed velocity.
As the first object almost made it to the horizon something that blocked the sta! rs and seemed stationary it was moving so slow and followed the same path as the first object. A third object similar to the first one came from off in the distance to our left and never came close, however all three objects seemed to intersect where we lost site of them.
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MADAR Node 32.
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Triangle craft, moving fast in straight line towards horizon. I was sitting at the stoplight on Walnut St and State of Franklin, directly across from the stoplight in front of me, I saw a triangle craft with 3 lights on it, one on top and two on bottom. The lights were very close together.
It high above the tree line. Within a matter of seconds, it was below the tree line, and I couldn’t see it anymore. It just moved in a straight line, downwards.
There was also no sound.
Tennessee UFO Sightings From 2021 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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Triangle | 8 reported sightings | 14.81% of all reports |
Light | 6 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Sphere | 6 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Unknown | 5 reported sightings | 9.26% of all reports |
Other | 3 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 3.70% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 1.85% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 1.85% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 1.85% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 1.85% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 1.85% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 1.85% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 1.85% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 1.85% of all reports |
Tennessee UFO Sightings From 2021 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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November | 7 reported sightings | 12.96% of all reports |
December | 6 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
June | 6 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
September | 6 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
May | 5 reported sightings | 9.26% of all reports |
August | 5 reported sightings | 9.26% of all reports |
April | 4 reported sightings | 7.41% of all reports |
January | 4 reported sightings | 7.41% of all reports |
July | 3 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
March | 3 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
October | 3 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 3.70% of all reports |
Tennessee UFO Sightings From 2021 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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Monday | 11 reported sightings | 20.37% of all reports |
Friday | 11 reported sightings | 20.37% of all reports |
Wednesday | 10 reported sightings | 18.52% of all reports |
Thursday | 8 reported sightings | 14.81% of all reports |
Sunday | 6 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Saturday | 6 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Tuesday | 2 reported sightings | 3.70% of all reports |
Tennessee UFO Sightings From 2021 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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08/30/21 | 2 reported sightings | 3.70% of all reports |
11/08/21 | 2 reported sightings | 3.70% of all reports |
06/11/21 | 1 reported sightings | 1.85% of all reports |
01/04/21 | 1 reported sightings | 1.85% of all reports |
01/22/21 | 1 reported sightings | 1.85% of all reports |
Tennessee UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 23 reported sightings | 42.59% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 9 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 7 reported sightings | 12.96% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 6 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 6 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 3 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
All Tennessee Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2021
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Tennessee, in 2021
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Tennessee
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Tennessee.