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
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 daysReport
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