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Memphis, TN
Tennessee · Shelby County · Memphis Metro
Memphis is a major city in Tennessee with a population of 629,063. Residents earn $51,211 per year, which is 32% below the national average.
3.0
/5.0
B
Good
629,063
Population
2,171/sq mi density
$51,211
Median Income
$32,314 per capita
$157,100
Home Value
$142,870 Zillow
$1,123
Median Rent
32.9% income on rent
64°F
Avg Temperature
293 sunny days/yr
1,901
Violent Crime/100K
6,128 property/100K
B
Overall
3.0 / 5.0
Good overall score based on economy, affordability, safety and education
C+
Economy
2.9 / 5.0
$51,211 median income, 5.3% unemployment
A+
Affordability
5.0 / 5.0
$157,100 home value, $1,123/mo rent
F
Safety
1.0 / 5.0
1,901 violent crimes/100K (400% above avg)
B
Education
3.3 / 5.0
28.2% bachelor's degree or higher
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Historic Markers
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UFO Sightings
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Reported UFO sightings from the National UFO Reporting Center database
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Mines
2
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UFO Sightings Near Memphis, TN
94 UFO sighting reports from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) found near Memphis, TN.
| Name | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Memphis, TN | 2014 | Standing at my window around 0:00 brilliantly lit objects the size of aircraft carriers, passed by, one by one. |
| Memphis, TN | 2014 | Orange lights fairly bright changed to white with a clear slightly oval circle around them and rapidly picked up speed. |
| Memphis, TN | 2013 | 40 to 50 objects hovering over memphis tennessee |
| Memphis, TN | 2013 | As I stood outside on the telephone, I noticed something in the sky which at first seemed to look like a flock of birds. It seemed to |
| Memphis, TN | 2013 | Metallic forest green with a dark circle around the middle. Seemed to be hovering and looked like a Weber grill without the legs. |
| Memphis, TN | 2012 | Bright star-like dot - western sky - that moved silently at an angle towards the north before vanishing into the clear night sky... |
| Memphis, TN | 2012 | Extremely reflective cylinder shaped object hovering then completely disappeared. |
| Memphis, TN | 2012 | There was a aura or haze around the fireball with a tail. |
| Memphis, TN | 2012 | I was watching Gemimids meter shower when i observed a circular object with white lights that did not flash and red, blue, and green. |
| Memphis, TN | 2012 | Lights in sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible advertising light?? PD)) |
| Memphis, TN | 2012 | Spherical metallic object high up in daylight sky gaining altitude and slowly heading west. One witness observed a spider like orange |
| Memphis, TN | 2011 | More Memphis UFOs-- confirmed by investigator as U/I. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. One of several from the same source. PD)) |
| Memphis, TN | 2011 | VERY LOW OBJECT w/ LIGHTS, sounded like helicopter, but WAS NOT! ((NUFORC Note: Student report. One of several. PD)) |
| Memphis, TN | 2011 | I know that what me and my daughters witness was not airplanes it was something that we had not seen before. |
| Memphis, TN | 2011 | 10 Unknown objects over Memphis. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. One of several from the same source. PD)) |
| Memphis, TN | 2011 | 10 Unknown objects over Memphis ((NUFORC Note: Student report. One of several from the same source. PD)) |
| Memphis, TN | 2011 | Objects over Memphis, 8pm mostly every night! ((NUFORC Note: Student report. One of several from the same source. PD)) |
| Memphis, TN | 2011 | 3 UFO sightings over Memphis. Weird jelly fish like spacecrafts |
| Memphis, TN | 2011 | Red-colored, cigar-shaped craft seen flying over Memphis, Tennessee. |
| Memphis, TN | 2011 | More Objects Over Memphis |
| Memphis, TN | 2011 | We saw 6 separate objects flying different directions with and without airplanes and in different flight paths than the planes! |
| Memphis, TN | 2010 | On Friday, the sky was really dark as if it was going to storm. Around 12:00 midnight, I heard winds blowing hard against my bedroom wi |
| Memphis, TN | 2010 | Rectangular white object observed for a minute or less over Memphis about fifteen minutes before sunset. |
| West memphis, AR | 2010 | I small star like object moved and changed directions several time for a total of two hours |
| Memphis, TN | 2009 | Bright glowing green sphere that vanishes, very close and very big. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD)) |
| Memphis, TN | 2009 | Day and Night - Saw object twice c.2009. 3-witnesses. Very similar to that object in the Tulsa OK sighting c.1965. |
| Memphis, TN | 2009 | Traveling red lights that had the ability to rapidly change flight direction were seen on Jackson Ave in Memphis TN |
| Memphis, TN | 2008 | I saw a bright orange sphere that hung in the sky for nearly 10 minutes! |
| Memphis, TN | 2008 | real bright light moving very fast |
| Memphis, TN | 2008 | Large green fireball with sparks trailing behind |
| Memphis, TN | 2008 | Two white lights seen in Memphis,TN. one on cellphone camera airplanes avoided the aircrafts |
| Memphis, TN | 2008 | UFO filmed; huge flash of light over Memphis, TN |
| Memphis, TN | 2008 | tremendously wide V Shape object connected by lights spotted over winchester avenue north-west pattern |
| Memphis, TN | 2008 | Gigantic round object with intense bright light moving thounsands of MPH |
| Memphis, TN | 2008 | this object became visible as i was standing in front of my house facing it to the north and the object was moving in the north-west to |
| West memphis, AR | 2008 | A big round disk over the Mississppi River the size of two football fields. It was white luminious object 1500 feet above the river. I |
| Memphis, TN | 2007 | At aprox. 8:20pm I saw a craft in the sky slowly moving from the east to the west. The craft stoped and rotated and other lights were v |
| Memphis, TN | 2007 | Green disk |
| Memphis, TN | 2007 | bright ball of white light falling in western sky |
| Memphis, TN | 2007 | Four bright orange lights in a perfect square that was slowly drifting before separating and disappearing. |
| Memphis, TN | 2006 | Distant light went from left to right in western sky. Twinkled as it flew and then after a little while maybe ten or twenty seconds it |
| Memphis, TN | 2006 | I work armed security in down town memphis and on 10/18/06 the store that i was watching had another thirty minutes to close,so i went |
| Memphis, TN | 2005 | Hovering craft over Memphis, TN. ((NUFORC Note: Probable sighting of a celestial body, we suspect. PD)) |
| Memphis, TN | 2005 | Huge disk seen hovering dead still in sky with 6 white lights on bottom and rotating red lights, Memphis, TN |
| Memphis, TN | 2005 | WHITE HOVERING WITH RED AND GREEN FLASHING LIGHTS. |
| Memphis, TN | 2004 | Me and my sister were outside and saw what looked like an airplane hen it got closer and it was triangular |
| Memphis, TN | 2004 | My exited triangular craft sighting |
| Memphis, TN | 2004 | Cluster of Orbs followed by formation of single Orbs |
| Memphis, TN | 2004 | watching storm clouds and ufo |
| Memphis, TN | 2004 | Pure machine- If it was ours it will be on Memphis approach radar or be given clearance to enter TCA for MEM. |
| West memphis, AR | 2004 | I watched the sphere made a sharp left turn to the west while moving from the south to the north. |
| Memphis (100 miles north of), TN | 2003 | I have never seen a weather balloon change colors and be bright enough to be seen at night, and travel at 500 mph. |
| Memphis, TN | 2003 | One large craft with a red light released six others. The crafts hovered for several minutes then disappeared. |
| Memphis, TN | 2003 | Round circular object, small cross section |
| Memphis, TN | 2002 | It was a glowing, dull yellow/green, silent, three dimensional horizontal triangle. with verticle cylinders on the end. |
| Memphis, TN | 2002 | The international space station was being followed by another vehicle of sorts. |
| Memphis, TN | 2001 | Star-like object moves slowly and hovers at high altitude over Memphis at mid-day. |
| Memphis, TN | 2001 | Daylight sighting of a black object moving at high speed below low cloud cover. |
| Memphis, TN | 2001 | Second sighting from the same general ground location, though not in the same location in the sky. |
| Memphis, TN | 2001 | the star at the top and at the bottom right were not stars but planets the other object was bluesh and jetted off quickly. |
| Memphis (near west memphis), AR | 2000 | I also saw a fireball the night all the unusual activity was reported in AR. |
| Memphis, TN | 2000 | another triangle seen in memphis tennessee |
| Memphis, TN | 2000 | UFO over Memphis |
| Memphis, TN | 2000 | An arc-shaped object, moving at possibly a high rate of speed, was seen moving from overhead to south. The object was almost invisible, |
| Memphis, TN | 2000 | A formation of 3 objects in a straight line, unmoving, occasionally changing color. |
| West memphis, AR | 2000 | IT SHOT STRAIGHT UP!! |
| Memphis (century arbor apartments), TN | 1999 | Fiance and I both witnessed separate events where lights began streaking over the skies above our apartment. moving at rapid speed, ch |
| Memphis, TN | 1999 | Daylight observation of a pin-point of light in western sky |
| Memphis, TN | 1999 | Object traveled across sky at high speed into a small cloud and did not emerge. |
| Memphis, TN | 1999 | Contact ((name delet @(901)((deleted)) or ((deleted)) Radio Show hotline @(901) for one page of complete account. |
| Memphis, TN | 1998 | Between 4-6 dim, orange lights, traveling NNW-SSE. Straight line travel, no noise. |
| Memphis, TN | 1998 | Approx. it was 5:41 in the morning and I was driving down this road called farm road and all of a sudden, I see this flash and it went |
| Memphis, TN | 1998 | Black triangle near I-55 south of Memphis, observed for 10 minutes by two people. |
| West memphis, AR | 1998 | Shiny triangle craft with dim lights flying just above tree tops. |
| West memphis, AR | 1997 | Two lights merge together due south thenproceed rapidly to the southwest where theydisappear at the horizon |
| Memphis, TN | 1996 | I was spending the night at a friends house when we went outside to check on his dog and my we saw something in the sky.They were a |
| Memphis, TN | 1996 | around shape object in memphis.please this is no lie..... |
| Memphis, TN | 1996 | Auto mechanics rept. bizarre red light that streak around shop, "like laser." Appears to come down out of sky; no other people nearby. |
| Memphis, TN | 1995 | 6 witnesses, one goes into complete denial, occurs in a populated urban environment. |
| Memphis, TN | 1995 | Woman & neighbor witness bizarre obj. pass overhead. Obj. had long wings, "like a glider," w/ 8-9 lights on each. It folded wings!! |
| West memphis, TN | 1995 | Memphis FAA controller relays sighting rept.--- Man sees green "roman candle" descend to ground, streak north. |
| Memphis, TN | 1993 | Blue-ish fireball speeds past the University of Memphis in winter of 1993-1994. |
| Memphis (frayser), TN | 1992 | A beach ball white orb at tree tops level traveling south at 5mph. |
| Memphis, TN | 1986 | Three lights in a triangular formation. |
| Memphis, TN | 1978 | ufo sighting over my car Memphis |
| Memphis, TN | 1978 | 2 huge triangle shaped objects, low to the ground moving very slow. we follow them for several miles before they vanish. |
| Memphis, TN | 1976 | Mothership Sighting over Memphis Tennesee on February 14, 1976 |
| Memphis, TN | 1976 | Bright white light in rural area of Memphis in 1976 responds to kid's and their sealed beam flashlight. |
| Memphis, TN | 1974 | Cigar in Memphis 1974. |
| Memphis, TN | 1969 | One object joining 9 others to complete a triangular formation. |
| Memphis, TN | 1964 | Moon like UFO hovers for minutes then ascends to appear to look like bright star, then dim star, then gone. |
| Memphis, TN | 1964 | A white full moon shaped ufo hovered for several minutes then started to ascend in the sky into space |
| Memphis, TN | 1964 | The "Moon of Memphis" looked simular to the white full moon in size and brightness but rises to be a star. |
| Memphis, TN | 1956 | Object was glowing dull orange bent cylinder. Hovered noiselessly over RR tracks for a time, then took off straight up. |