Bowling Green, KY, USA
Santa Claus?...really not intentional hoax, Santa sled is only way i can explain it.
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2013-12-19
- Where
- Bowling Green, KY, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 36.990, -86.444 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-bowling-green-ky-2013-72f2ec
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
- Bowling Green, KY shows up 51 times across the archive.
- 98 reports came from Kentucky in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
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.