Fireball over Cosby, TN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Strange dancing lights making patterns in sky over Cosby, TN after lifting off of the ground.
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 2014-03-17 → 2014-04-03
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April 25, 2020 · 9:45 AM · OVAL
Cosby, TN
I was outside having a cigarette and then I noticed something out of the corner of my eye in the night sky I thought it was just a shooting star then I kept watching them light grey ovals.as I watched it just as it was disappearing another one was appearing then I got my dad he came out and was wondering what the heck. then they started to get faster.then they were about two but the one was that was disappearing another one was appearing. They were grey and oval shaped it was then continuously after that then out of nowhere then they just disappeared . It 9:45pm when me and my dad went back in the house it was 10:45pm. I even drew a picture of what me and my dad seen
January 15, 2018 · 5:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Cosby, TN
I was on the phone with my girlfriend who lives in Maryland. I was inside my second floor apartment and saw a copper colored glint of light over the mountaintop behind the apartment building and thought it was strange that it flew a curved path, causing the late afternoon sun (already down behind the mountain) to reflect off it. I went outside onto the roofless deck and was continuing my conversation on my new Apple iPhone 7, which I was not very used to using as I only had it about a month. I was looking at the skies waiting for the "plane" I thought I had seen to re-appear. I happened to look straight up into the sky and as I was doing so, the craft appeared out of nowhere. It was copper colored and had three white circular domed, downward facing "lights". I screamed to my girlfriend OMG, it's a ufo"! I frantically tried to get live video through the camera app, but being new to the phone, I was unaware that video is not possible while still frames are. I also did not know that you could use the power button to snap pictures. As I watched, staring straight up at it, I saw that it was moving very slowly forward, the point with one light dome leading the way. After about 2-3 minutes, it simply vanished as I was watching it. My girlfriend stayed on the line the entire time so I should consider her a second witness, although not a visual one.
June 23, 2001 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Cosby, TN
the objects made animpossible 90 degree turn.