State Report
UFO Sightings in Tennessee
3,574 sightings on record from 1940 to 2023, drawn from the National UFO Reporting Center databank.
Total sightings
3,574
Share of US total
1.67%
Peak year
2012
240 reports
Top shape
Light
606 reports
Years active
83
Sightings by decade
reports / decadeTop shapes reported
all-timeLatest 20 sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | Shape | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-19 | Nashville | changing | Still there at 7 pm | Looked over at moon as plane went southwest turned to sit down and noticed object flashing in the sky |
| 2023-12-15 | Sunbright | changing | 1 hr | This has been happening for a week on a regular basis. It's like nothing I've ever seen and my son in law was USAF... |
| 2023-12-08 | Kingston | orb | 5 seconds | 5 second pulsating light low altitude moving steady and fast |
| 2023-12-07 | Memphis | fireball | Lasted a few hours | There was a light beam in the tree emitting a fireball to the ground |
| 2023-11-16 | Oak Ridge | triangle | 3 min | Triangle shape only saw one light in the front and two in the rear. Was not super high in the air and made a low/soft... |
| 2023-10-27 | Red Boiling Springs | light | 8th of a 2nd | Taking Video out airplane window as we started to descend from 37k ft |
| 2023-10-13 | Columbia | light | 20min | I have a video but it's basically lights going back and forth and around and around in a circle. |
| 2023-10-13 | Knoxville | circle | 4 minutes | Flashing lights seen on a craft hovering above the neighborhood |
| 2023-10-12 | Finger | orb | 19 minutes | Saw strange round lights from car |
| 2023-10-11 | Oak Ridge | fireball | 30 sec | Red orb rises straight up then disappears |
| 2023-10-05 | Chattanooga | triangle | 15sec | Triangle shaped object glowing green along the edges sighted for approx 15sec before vision being blocked by buildings. |
| 2023-10-05 | Gatlinburg | flash | Gatlinburg | ufo's were seen while taking picture of skybridge |
| 2023-10-04 | Hixson | orb | 2minutes | Saw shining orb in sky stationary moved left and then disappeared. |
| 2023-10-01 | SHELBYVILLE | egg | Approximately 15 min | Small, silent craft with lights goes invisible. |
| 2023-09-30 | Chattanooga | sphere | Less than 10 seconds | Glowing, bright, small, silent floating orb. About the size of a softball. |
| 2023-09-30 | Brentwood | egg | 5 minutes | With it being Clear Skies it caught my eye as I was returning to my truck and it just sit in one spot not moving |
| 2023-09-20 | Nashville | disk | Approximately 25 seconds. | I observed a stationary, dull metallic colored disk for approximately 25 seconds before it disappeared. |
| 2023-09-19 | Morristown | circle | 34 seconds | Flying object |
| 2023-09-08 | Memphis | changing | 5 to 7 minutes | Metallic in color shifting from round bulbus to rectangle and flat |
| 2023-08-25 | Gray | orb | 2 or 3 minutes | Saw fast-moving, pulsing white-pink light over airport and Air Force base. Erratic speed & direction, vanished behind... |