UFOMYST
CaseCross2021

In flight, KY, USA

Inverted Y-shaped object seen from commercial aircraft at 28K ft

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (64 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-09-02
Where
In flight, KY, USA
Shape
Cross
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
—
Slug
cross-over-in-flight-ky-2021-3f9267
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…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from In flight, KY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Kentucky logged 42 sightings in 2021.
  • Cross sightings ran at 0.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 0.3%).

Report

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