Sphere over Knoxville & Gatlinburg, TN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
a solid, unmoving white orb that stayed there for a moment and then darted past. my boyfriend in Knoxville told me he saw a flash past his window that was nothing like a plane/bug/various light/etc, it was too fast. then, I went to check Facebook and a local group had a video of the event from 40 minutes away in Gatlinburg.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #148049). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-08-01 → 2019-08-18