CaseCylinder2006
Smithland, KY, USA
It looked like an airplane without wings or tail.
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (49 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-12-03
- Where
- Smithland, KY, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 37.139, -88.403 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-smithland-ky-2006-0399f1
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
- Smithland, KY has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 48 reports from Kentucky.
- The 2000s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure 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.