CaseSphere2017

Florence, KY, USA

Bright sphere was seeing over the Florence around 19:00 for less than .45 seconds. ((anonymous report))

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (82 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-02-25
Where
Florence, KY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
.45
Geo
38.999, -84.627 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-florence-ky-2017-df5b98
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Florence, KY shows up 28 times across the archive.
  • 66 reports came from Kentucky in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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