Fireball over Oak Ridge, TN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Shooting star? Thats what I thought until....
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2004-03-30 → 2004-04-16
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November 16, 2023 · 8:10 PM · TRIANGLE
Oak Ridge, TN
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.
October 11, 2023 · 8:29 PM · FIREBALL
Oak Ridge, TN
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
August 18, 2021 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Oak Ridge, TN
I was out in my yard and noticed 2 red lights in the sky coming in my direction moving slowly and flying low. It flew above me, a triangle, completely silent, it was black and huge! I watched it fly towards north and noticed white lights in the back, I watched it for about 10 minutes until it was to far to see anymore. I wish I had my phone to record
July 13, 2017 · 10:02 PM · LIGHT
Oak Ridge, TN
Bright, green, light also white in color possible fireball flew over house and across street about 20ft above trees approximately 10:02pm. It was completely dark outside. Disappeared out of sight once on other side of tree sight. Not enormous in size, but rather large. Hard to determine size really. It was a ball. Kinda oval and circular. There was no sound at all. No jet trails or streams. Lasted about 4 seconds. It glided smooth and went across and over the trees. About 5-10 minutes later there were numerous jets with lights on both wings flying low going towards direction. Also, numberous helicopters. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and she stated that the apparent size of the object was larger than that of a full Moon, and perhaps several times larger. Her impression was that it was not a meteor, contrary to local news reports. PD
September 21, 2016 · 11:37 PM · CIRCLE
Oak Ridge, TN
I went outside and witnessed a star blinking in the north east direction from my front porch. Once my eyes focused i noticed it was not just blinking, it was also changing colors. I watched it and took pictures then a thirteen second video of it. When i pulled my phone from my sight i noticed another object with the same lights moving away from the hovering object. I moved to the back yard to follow the unknown object and when i looked around i saw two more at different dirsctional points in the sky hovering like the first. The one moving left my sight all together but the one in front of my house still remains but has moved more east. I later watched e video zoomed in and saw an object changing to several forms. Like light caught in a crystal. I later took screen shots while the video played, showing the object in red solid circle. The a blueish green triangular shape and then a white circle that look similar to a smoke ring. At 01:35 I am still watching the object and the neighborhood dogs are going crazy. Sighting of the star, Sirius. PD
August 2, 2014 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Oak Ridge, TN
Massive large circular object burning and moving quickly over hospital. We have corrected the date above. PD