Other over Maryville, TN
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AUG 1989
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2005-01-21 → 2005-02-07
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April 22, 2023 · 7:49 PM · SPHERE
Maryville, TN
The object was almost directly overhead when I first saw it but it had moved SE some before the video starts. It changed speeds and stopped several times. I live 5 miles south of the Knoxville TN airport and I see a lot of aviation traffic of all types here including a lot of military fixed wing aircraft and helicopters. I grew up as an Air Force Brat so I'm used to seeing aircraft my entire life. Feel free to contact me if there are any questions about this sighting.
June 15, 2021 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Maryville, TN
I was sky-watching while sitting on my backyard deck (I like looking for satellites or watching aircraft from nearby McGhee Tyson Airport). I have a pair of binoculars that I use during this endeavor. On the night of June 15th, 2021, I saw an aircraft taking-off around 2300 hours. It was traveling in an easterly direction, and was about 45 degrees above the horizon, when I focused my binoculars on it. At this time I saw two lights, which looked like what you would expect when seeing satellites, traveling above, and in the same direction as, the aircraft. I then saw each light bank-away from each other, and take-up a position behind the aircraft. It looked like a classic fighter maneuver to get behind an adversary aircraft. The lights "tailed" the aircraft (closely, but not close enough to be a hazard) for a short distance before they both climbed upward at a steep angle. I lost sight of the lights before losing sight of the aircraft. Other than the engine noise from the aircraft, no unusual sound was heard. They lights were a solid, white color. They had no other lights that were visible to me (such as collision or navigation lights as should be seen on an aircraft). I do not think they were drones, at least in the conventional/non-military sense owing to their speed and maneuverability. I should also mention that I have good knowledge of aviation and aircraft.
August 4, 2020 · 10:40 PM · DIAMOND
Maryville, TN
We saw a bright light, almost like it was something with 4 bright LED lights, in the sky. It wasn't moving, and so I figured it wasn't a star, and wasn't likely an airplane just sitting there like that, so I went to go get the camera and my son followed me outside. It looked like a diamond. The bottom 3 lights were so close together you couldn't really see where one began and the other ended. The light on top was just slightly enough separated from the rest so you could see it was an individual light. I take a picture and I'm looking at it through my screen when I noticed it started moving. It then looked as if it dimmed it's lights and started blinking. I could swear it was blinking red with the white as it slowly began moving to the left. I panicked and got my kids back inside at that point. That was like nothing I've ever seen before in the sky. And I sit there staring at the starts every night. When we came back inside my 4 year old tells my husband, &qu! ot;Daddy we saw a Diamond in the sky." I hadn't even had the chance to say that's what I thought it looked like. So we were definitely seeing the same thing.
January 10, 2019 · 1:14 AM · SPHERE
Maryville, TN
i went outside for a smoke at about 1am, it was cold so i sat in my car and went to crack the window. when i looked out the window, i noticed a super bright “star” in the SE direction .. stars aren’t that bright are they? they’re not that big either. they definitely don’t change size and color, right? it seemed to be getting brighter and bigger so i pulled my phone out to record. i zoomed in, spotted the light, and saw that this star-like form was now a giant glowing ball that looked like something off of freakin jimmy neutron. it was a defined circle, glowing white on the outside but a staticky and colorful orb on the inside. i’m still not sure of exactly what i saw that night, i got scared and went inside. 30 minutes of the experiencing unknown was enough for me. i have continued to try and put the thought out of my mind, but at this point i know that there is something bigger than us out there and i need answers
September 20, 2018 · 8:00 AM · CIGAR
Maryville, TN
At 8 AM I went outside to walk my dogs. I noticed what I thought was a plane, until I realized it had no wings, and was completely silent. It was moving slowly, in a straight line, from SW to NE, toward Knoxville. As soon as I lost sight of it, I saw a second, then a third. Same height, same direction, same flight path. All 3 moved very slowly, and made no sound. They were cigar-shaped, bright white in color, and seemed to be in 2 sections. The leading end was about 2/3 of the total length, with front and back divided by a slightly darker band.
November 12, 2016 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Maryville, TN
I was laying in bed about to goto sleep when I looked up out the Window and saw the light. I was going from east to west at a high Speed. Crazy. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD