CaseFireball1997

Louisville, KY, USA

A hovering ball of orange light that came back twice

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-01
Where
Louisville, KY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
38.254, -85.759 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-louisville-ky-1997-78647a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    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

  • Louisville, KY shows up 224 times across the archive.
  • 14 reports came from Kentucky in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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