Sphere over Smyrna, TN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Orange/yellow sphere seen in middle tn area.
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 2012-12-28 → 2013-01-14
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October 2, 2022 · 6:05 AM · LIGHT
Smyrna, TN
30 mins before sunrise (around 6:05am), I walked outside to a totally clear sky; no clouds in sight, no stars in sight. However, in the NE sky (45°) there was a large, very bright, stationary light. At first I thought it was Venus but then it suddenly “blinked off” (disappeared).
July 13, 2022 · 8:03 PM · SPHERE
Smyrna, TN
After having had a few days in a row of summer high heat, rain, & high humidity, yesterday was a nice and unusually low humidity day. After grocery shopping for a couple hours we left Walmart near 8:00 pm. With the unobstructed view from the parking lot I noticed the beautiful sky while walking to my car. It was near dusk. The sky was a clear blue (usually low humidity for us here), the few clouds in the sky were very high (for here) and were wispy and pink, due to being near dusk. After loading the groceries I stole one minute to myself and deeply took in the beauty of the sky. Got into the car to drive away and while still in the parking lot looked again at the sky. I noticed an odd object and asked the person with me to look at it and ask.what it was. They didn't have a clue. Then it dawned on me I had my phone to video it. I did so, fearing I'd miss it. But I didn't. I got it as it crossed a pink wispy cloud. It was very high in the sky at a great distance from me but it must have been large for me to be able to see it so clearly. It did not seem like a plane to us. My video is only 11 seconds. I stopped filming when I thought it had disappeared. But later when I cast the video from my phone to my large smart TV, I saw that it hadn't disappeared but had only turned dark. If I had known it was still visible to my phone I would have continued filming. I did notice that the shape of the object on my TV was different from how my naked eye saw it. I would have described it a spherical from my naked eye view but blown up on screen shots it has a bit of a triangular aspect to it but that may be due to the way light works when magnified. On a large monitor it should be easy to see. But to help you find it; if you see the shape of the pink cloud is similar to the silhouette of a cat running toward you locate its ears and head and then it's front legs. The video begins with.the object moving across the left armpit area of the cat shaped cloud. It moves upward and to the left across the "cat" shape. Then it turns dark before I stop filming.
December 13, 2021 · 5:41 AM · LIGHT
Smyrna, TN
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.
November 10, 2019 · 12:20 AM · LIGHT
Smyrna, TN
Smyrna tn Almaville road at 12:20 a.m a large white light 3 times larger than the north star almost as bright as a street light that would be 15 feet from you moving toward the ground slightly faster than a falling object. If it were a plane it was most definitely 100% a crash at that speed straight down the light was white not yellow and there were no blinking lights. Moving at a higher than falling speed straight down. Scared me so much I got lost coming home on a road I drive every day. very shaken up. I almost exspecting a loud boom as if it would have hit the earth very hard but heard nothing. I drove The Direction toward it for about 15 minutes and never saw it again.
January 30, 2019 · 8:05 PM · SPHERE
Smyrna, TN
I walked out of my work shed saw what looked like a star but caught my eye with multi color type pulsing. Observed this object shoot upwards a significant distance then a few seconds shoot back down. Then it shot straight over to the right then back upwards again at great speed. At one point it completely disappeared and almost immediately reappeared way over to the left of where it had been. Physically impossible for any conventional aircraft to perform such maneuvers as it would impose incredible G-force on the object. Called my wife to come down and witness this behavior which continue for another 5 minutes then the object disappeared. It was quite a show. Honest to God all true and no plane or planet, this was real.
December 13, 2017 · 11:30 AM · SPHERE
Smyrna, TN
On 12/13/17 at approximately 11:30 hours, I observed a single white or silver sphere traveling straight and N/W bound at a very high altitude at an extremely high rate of speed. Observer for 2-3 seconds. The path of sphere was similar as used by commercial aircraft approaching BNA but much much higher. No noise was heard while in view. After approximately 10-12 seconds there was a low rumble that shook the house. Day light, no clouds, air temp 40 F, wind NNE 11kt. I live. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD