Lexington, KY, USA
Flat, reflective object spotted at high speed along US 60. Enters small cloud, Does not exit.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-08-16
- Where
- Lexington, KY, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5-6 seconds
- Geo
- 37.989, -84.478 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-lexington-ky-2011-f63efa
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
- One of 86 documented reports from Lexington, KY in the UFOMYST archive.
- Kentucky logged 85 sightings in 2011.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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