CaseCircle2017

Louisville, KY, USA

My husband and I were outside and could see planes coming in to the airport for the UPS sort. The UPS planes were traveling E to W.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-08-04
Where
Louisville, KY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
38.254, -85.759 · exact
Slug
circle-over-louisville-ky-2017-f51822
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Louisville, KY logged 4 reports in the single month of August 2017.

In context

  • One of 224 documented reports from Louisville, KY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Kentucky logged 66 sightings in 2017.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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