CaseCircle1998

Louisville (seen from a/c @ FL450 ~ 75 NM S. of), KY, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Louisville (seen from a/c @ FL450 ~ 75 NM S. of), KY, USA
Start: 1998-11-12
Location: Louisville (seen from a/c @ FL450 ~ 75 NM S. of), KY, USA

Falcon 2000 Corporate flight crew spots strobe WELL above their cruise altitude of 45,000 feet... unknown source to air traffic contro

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
Detailed witness text (134 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1998-11-12
Where: Louisville (seen from a/c @ FL450 ~ 75 NM S. of), KY, USA
Shape: Circle
Duration: 2-3 Minutes
Geo: 38.254, -85.759 · exact
Slug: circle-over-louisville-seen-from-a-c-fl450-75-nm-s-of-ky-1998-f9d1ce

In context

One of 1 documented reports from Louisville (seen from a/c @ FL450 ~ 75 NM S. of), KY in the UFOMYST archive.
Kentucky logged 15 sightings in 1998.
Circle sightings ran at 6.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Formation · Louisville, KY<1 km · 15d apart
Changing · New Albany, IN6.6 km · 28d apart

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