CaseLight2020
Mount Vernon, KY, USA
Orange orb floating in southeast sky erratic movements
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-30
- Where
- Mount Vernon, KY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- >1 hour
- Geo
- 38.026, -84.495 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-mount-vernon-ky-2020-d1b540
Wave
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Mount Vernon, KY.
- This case is one of 89 Kentucky reports filed in 2020.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2020s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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