CaseCigar2013
Shelbyville, KY, USA
Cigar shaped fireball ascending up diagonally then disappeared.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-09-18
- Where
- Shelbyville, KY, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 38.212, -85.224 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-shelbyville-ky-2013-b81fb4
Wave
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- One of 4 documented reports from Shelbyville, KY in the UFOMYST archive.
- Kentucky logged 98 sightings in 2013.
- Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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