Louisville, KY, USA
At approximately 21:45 me and a friend saw a strange orange ball in the sky making a series of irradic moves. It was hard to say how bi
Report quality: High73/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-07-03
- Where
- Louisville, KY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 38.254, -85.759 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-louisville-ky-2011-147a1f
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
July 2011 was a busy month for Louisville, KY: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 224 reports logged in Louisville, KY.
- This case is one of 85 Kentucky reports filed in 2011.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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