SIGHTING: KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE (UNITED STATES)

Witness Testimony

"On June 16, 2016 I was taking a break from mowing and sat in a chair in my driveway (which faces approx. 250 degrees SW) when I observer a white round object at about 240 degrees SW and about 70-75 degrees elevation ( I have a compass ap on my cell phone)What caught my attention was that it was not moving at all. At first I thought it was a weather ballon but I did not see any kind of trailing material. There were high thin clouds ( see photos ) out that day but the object was plainly visible I watch for about 15 minutes and it still did not appear to move. I keep a pair of binoculars in my PU truck so I got them and tried to seethe object more clearly. I was not able to steady these binoculars so I went into the house and got another pair (I like to bird watch so I have lots of binoculars) This did not work to my satisfaction (again not able to hold steady enough to improve my visibility) I then got out my Sony a77 digital camera that is fitted with a Sony 2.8/16-50 ssm lens. I also used a Sony 4.5-5.6/75-300 telephoto lens. I took a few pictures with the 2.8 lens and then installed the telephoto lens and a Quantaray 2X teleconverter. I then took more photos but was having difficulty focusing the lens I then tried to focus on trees and other objects closer by to see if I could the maximum distance focus function to work I took 4 or five pictures and did not realize that when I used the zoom in feature on the camera I had a reasonably clear picture of the object hat appeared to be the shape of a blood cell in white and it appeared to have numerous windows around the periphery of the disc. I attempted to repeat the focus adjustment. At this point Around 10:30 am the clouds increased (although not significantly)and I was no longer able to see the object. I thought about getting my tripod to help steady the camera, but after waiting another 15 minutes or so the object was no longer visible even though the clouds had dissipated. So that is what happened. I watch the local news and scanned the newspaper for a couple of days afterwards but saw no mention of anyone seeing this object. "