UFOMYST
CaseCross2008

Lexington, KY, USA

Transparent cross shaped object at high altitude caught glare from sun and vanished seconds later

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-07-02
Where
Lexington, KY, USA
Shape
Cross
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
37.989, -84.478 · exact
Slug
cross-over-lexington-ky-2008-55d3ec
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 86 documented reports from Lexington, KY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Kentucky logged 71 sightings in 2008.
  • Cross sightings ran at 0.3% during the 2000s (archive average: 0.3%).

Report

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