Louisville, KY, USA
Red flashing light headed south/southwest over Louisville, KY, clear sky, no clouds.
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-03-16
- Where
- Louisville, KY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 38.254, -85.759 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-louisville-ky-2011-7d99ef
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…
In context
- Louisville, KY shows up 224 times across the archive.
- 85 reports came from Kentucky in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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