Payneville, KY, USA
At least 18-24 square shaped bright reddish orange lights moving across sky in a single row. ((NUFORC Note: Satellites. PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2019-05-25
- Where
- Payneville, KY, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- >2 minutes
- Geo
- 37.990, -86.313 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-payneville-ky-2019-a19982
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
- Payneville, KY has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2019 brought 75 reports from Kentucky.
- The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.