Circle over Franklin, TN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It looked like an orange moon setting above the tree line & it slowly descended down into the trees. I've been seeing this same thing
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2013-11-09 → 2013-11-26
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May 3, 2023 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Franklin, TN
Was looking at a sky that had no other visible stars or planets…a hovering, what appeared to be a red ball with momentary energy spikes shooting from it from time to time…but when recorded and played back and zoomed in with an iPhone XR appeared white and flashing…play video back and zoom in tight Had seen same thing back in October but near Brentwood Homewood Suites and either time there were no aircraft present…make.certain you zoom in on object in video as tight as possible [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
December 25, 2022 · 12:30 PM · CIGAR
Franklin, TN
Driving south into Franklin on Franklin Rd, look to my left and see what looked to be a silver, cigar shaped aircraft that was extremely shiny and appeared to have 2 small wings with no tailwing. It must have been as large as a passenger aircraft. Seen directly over the Harpeth river and it must have been at least 25-30,000 feet up. It was briefly moving at about 100-200mph but then stopped, and began hovering in the sky. It left no trail. That is when I stopped my car on the side of the road to get a better view of it, rolled down my window and as I pulled out my phone to take a video, the craft slowly faded out of existence. This was a 5 second process where i could literally see the craft fade into the sky like it was slowly putting on an invisibility cloak. During this process, the craft was hovering and was not turning in any direction.
October 19, 2022 · 7:17 PM · OTHER
Franklin, TN
At first it looked like it was a massive star, but the size of that light was an anomaly. It’s position in the sky would not have made sense for it to have been a star. It was too far down and i live in a city so light pollution makes it hard to see any stars. It did not move in a pattern consistent with a plane or helicopter. It was very large and EXTREMELY bright white light. It moved in irregular patterns and would vanish then reappear before evolving into a much smaller light and zig zagging into nothing. I noticed other cars braking in the road. Two street lights were affected (the hue of the lightbulb) and i believe 3 other cars seemed to noticed. I do experience these situations often. This was my 3rd time seeing something similar. I have had many sightings. Particularly when looking through Snapchat filters. Unfortunately, i was driving and missed some of the time in the video attached. I have had a similar experience in the same area where a long period of time was lost. This was also in the company of the same people i was with for this sighting.
May 30, 2022 · 3:54 PM · OVAL
Franklin, TN
I was outside of my girlfriends family home when I looked up and saw a white tic-tac shaped object moving high in the sky with no exhaust or noise.
April 17, 2020 · 7:20 PM · LIGHT
Franklin, TN
Object appeared to be a satellite moving from southwest to northeast. When object west about 60 degrees up from the horizon and west/northwest of my location, there was a bright light shining in my direction for about two seconds. I am a military/commercial pilot retired after 41 years and over 12,000 hours of flying. Probably half of my time is at night. The light looked like a sun glint. Could it have been a brief sun reflection off of a satellite like the Hubble? The angle to the sun below the horizon could explain it. Except for the two second flash, the time of travel from overhead to the horizon was about one minute.
April 13, 2020 · 7:15 PM · OTHER
Franklin, TN
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