CaseCircle2017

Smithfield, KY, USA

Me and my wife was setting out side at 10 pm and seen two lights look like stars but was moving really fast and then slow vanished in t

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-04-18
Where
Smithfield, KY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
38.387, -85.257 · exact
Slug
circle-over-smithfield-ky-2017-92f0ab
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…

In context

  • Smithfield, KY shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 66 reports came from Kentucky in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

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within 30 days

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