CaseLight2008

Louisville, KY, USA

Star like object appeared to move in circular paths

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (51 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-11-01
Where
Louisville, KY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 hours
Geo
38.254, -85.759 · exact
Slug
light-over-louisville-ky-2008-887fd7
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…

In context

  • Louisville, KY shows up 224 times across the archive.
  • 71 reports came from Kentucky in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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