UFOMYST
CaseFireball2016

Ricetown, KY, USA

Blinking globular object glowing with orange/red light observed in forest from my back deck a second night in a row.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (116 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-04-17
Where
Ricetown, KY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
37.390, -83.623 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-ricetown-ky-2016-202120
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Ricetown, KY has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 54 reports from Kentucky.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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