CaseFireball1964
Samuel-/Bardstown, KY, USA
A witness near Bardstown, Kentucky reported a fireball that slowly descended to a fence row, rolled along the ground, and then rose back into the air, lasting about 15 minutes, August 1964.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (189 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1964-08-01
- Where
- Samuel-/Bardstown, KY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 37.809, -85.467 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-samuel-bardstown-ky-1964-1e904d
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In context
- Samuel-/Bardstown, KY has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1964 brought 3 reports from Kentucky.
- The 1960s skewed 2.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
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