Triangle over Bybee, TN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I am a skeptic. Still not sure what I saw and wasn’t going to report anything, but after reading about the siting in Gatlinburg not too long ago, I thought maybe I should report it. The time it happened was around 7:30pm in Cocke County on a rural road on October 17, 2016. There were two lights in the sky. One very bright (orange in color), the other seemed to be orbiting around it slowly at first. I thought maybe it was just a satellite and a planet because I am a big star gazer and can identify different objects in the sky fairly well. I kept watching and as I drove close the one very bright star got brighter and there was a third star that appeared which made the triangular shape. I gasped because the shape was slightly darker than the rest of the sky. The size was unmeasurable. It was so big. I have seen a lot of planes fly through our small part of the woods, but nothing like this. My heart sank. I was so frightened. It only lasted a moment, and the lights faded leaving only the bright star and the first smaller star dimly lit in the night sky. As I drove, the tree line took over my view. I kept watching and calculating where the object or stars…things would be in the sky when my car turned in that direction again, but I was unable to locate it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #130675). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-10-14 → 2016-10-31