CaseFireball2000
Louisville, KY, USA
We saw an object that glowed blue/orange/yellow, and flickered like a candle, yet it hovered within a half-mile of us, and disappeared
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-01-13
- Where
- Louisville, KY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 38.254, -85.759 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-louisville-ky-2000-09b3af
In context
- Louisville, KY shows up 224 times across the archive.
- 26 reports came from Kentucky in 2000.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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