CaseUnknown2010

Paducah, KY, USA

I went outside for nightly smoke break and to gaze at the night sky. I noticed something that seemed like an out of place star only to

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-01-09
Where
Paducah, KY, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
37.083, -88.600 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-paducah-ky-2010-738b94
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

  • This is one of 20 reports logged in Paducah, KY.
  • This case is one of 53 Kentucky reports filed in 2010.

Report

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