Lexington, KY, USA
Cylinder shaped flying object flying low with blue lights coming from bottom.
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-03-02
- Where
- Lexington, KY, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 20-30 seconds
- Geo
- 37.989, -84.478 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-lexington-ky-2016-a5a4d7
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 54 sightings in 2016.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).
Report
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