CaseCylinder2012
Belfry, KY, USA
Very large mirrored object seen in the sky for over an hour
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-10-16
- Where
- Belfry, KY, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 37.620, -82.269 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-belfry-ky-2012-01d43e
Wave
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
- Belfry, KY shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 65 reports came from Kentucky in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.