FORM 112 - MADAR SIGHTING INFORMATION REPORT
 


POWELL, TENNESSEE   -   JULY 8, 2022



I.   DESCRIPTION OF INCIDENT

July 8, 2022; Powell, Tennessee
3:45 am. Witness went outside to let the dog out and have a smoke. At first he heard a low humming sound which sounded similar to a jet aircraft at high altitude, very quiet, very muted. As he was looking up, his eyes scanned the skyline behind the house and he saw a large trianglular UFO moving about 50 mph just above the tree line. He estimated a maximum of 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile away. He reported that for reference it probably flew directly over his neighbor's house who lives on the hill behind him. The object came into view from the left and moved slowly to the right until it disappeared behind the hill and he lost sight of it. The object was a near perfect triangle, with three white lights on each point fully illuminated, no blinking, flashing or any sort of colored traditional navigation lights. It was solid black and almost blended perfectly into the night sky. It also had a circular light in the front center that was larger than the other three lights. It looked almost like a sphere or illuminated hole in the middle. The lights on the tips weren’t pointed like you would expect from aircraft but were what he would describe as general area illumination, much smaller than the circular large light in the center. It was so close and so low that any traditional aircraft, helicopter, B2, etc , he said, would have nearly blown the roof off the surrounding houses. It wasn’t silent but was quiet like a mild hum, not a buzz like you see with drones. Also the size was incompatible to any drone he'd ever seen. It was larger in size than a jet liner flying at that altitude. He had spent 8 years on multiple Air Force bases with and had seen B2s, F117s, and all manner of fighter and bomber aircraft and he has never seen something even close to that. He said he was a little spooked. (MUFON) [July 2022, NMR]

II.   MADAR DATA

The spreadsheet for the incident comes from the MADAR site 35, which is Maryville, 20 miles NW of the sighting location. It shows a system recal a minute before the reported incident, which means the data should be very accurate. The field had been 2.25 milligaus right before and had jumped to 9.75 during the first minute. No telling what the readings were during those 60-seconds, since the dataprobe had not gone into alert mode at once line per second. That would have required the node to have had a 30 milligaus or higher reading, and it never got higher than 9.75. However, the onboard compass had been at 201.7 and it had varied to 203.74 degrees, and within (2) mins had increased to 204.56 which is considered significant.

III.  STATUS OF INVESTIGATION

7/8/2022 - sighting
7/9/2022 - reported to MUFON
10/11/2022 - July 2022 NMS report, Jeremy Haslam, MADAR UFO Officer

IV.   CONCLUSIONS