Knoxville, TN. (Credit: Nathan C. Fortner) by Roger Marsh
A Tennessee witness at Knoxville reported watching a fast moving, disc-shaped object, according to testimony in Case 82433 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was at work and looking through windows facing south at 4:05 p.m. on February 26, 2017.
“I saw a silver disc come zooming by heading from northeast to southwest almost directly towards McGhee-Tyson Airport, which is class B airspace at an estimated 350 mph and 3,000-3,500 feet,” the witness stated. “A few minutes later, I saw an airliner descending from the south to north on downwind leg of landing pattern for the airport at one-third the speed of object. I am ex-Navy, having served aboard a helicopter carrier and do have a private pilot's license.”
Tennessee MUFON Field Investigator Leonteen Connolly closed this case as an Unknown UAV.
A Tennessee witness at Knoxville reported watching a fast moving, disc-shaped object, according to testimony in Case 82433 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was at work and looking through windows facing south at 4:05 p.m. on February 26, 2017.
“I saw a silver disc come zooming by heading from northeast to southwest almost directly towards McGhee-Tyson Airport, which is class B airspace at an estimated 350 mph and 3,000-3,500 feet,” the witness stated. “A few minutes later, I saw an airliner descending from the south to north on downwind leg of landing pattern for the airport at one-third the speed of object. I am ex-Navy, having served aboard a helicopter carrier and do have a private pilot's license.”
Tennessee MUFON Field Investigator Leonteen Connolly closed this case as an Unknown UAV.
“It should also be noted that the witness spent three and-one-half years in the navy serving aboard a helicopter freighter as an aircraft handler assigned to a post in Egypt in 1981,” Connolly stated in his report. “He also has a small aircraft pilot’s license which accounts for his ability to assess distance and speed of the craft he observed. He made those judgments because he observed a plane approaching a landing at Tyson-McGhee Airport, knew of its probable speed, and estimated the craft at a speed so much faster. He was confident that the pilot of the incoming plane was in no position to view the craft.”
No images or videos were included with the report, which was filed on March 1, 2017.
No images or videos were included with the report, which was filed on March 1, 2017.
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