CaseLight2002

Paintsville, KY, USA

dont know if train/ufo was hoax, but do know there was something strange in the area that night

Report quality: Low39/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2002-01-13
Where
Paintsville, KY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 sec
Geo
37.815, -82.807 · exact
Slug
light-over-paintsville-ky-2002-7797b8
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Paintsville, KY in January 2002 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Paintsville, KY has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2002 brought 29 reports from Kentucky.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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