Crestwood, KY, USA
A big disk with red and green lights on the rim was coming closer to the ground, it's body was the color of the sky.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-09-27
- Where
- Crestwood, KY, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 38.324, -85.472 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-crestwood-ky-1997-73cd37
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Crestwood, KY has 8 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 14 reports from Kentucky.
- The 1990s skewed 7.1% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
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.