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
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: 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
Part of a wave
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%.
Nearby in space & time
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