CaseCircle1997

Louisville, KY, USA

glow over louisville kentucky

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (29 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-20
Where
Louisville, KY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
38.254, -85.759 · exact
Slug
circle-over-louisville-ky-1997-059a34
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

In context

  • Louisville, KY has 224 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 14 reports from Kentucky.
  • The 1990s skewed 6.7% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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