CaseChanging2017
Richmond, KY, USA
((HOAX??)) UFO richmond, KY ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Low18/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (16 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2017-12-20
- Where
- Richmond, KY, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- >2 hours
- Geo
- 37.748, -84.295 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-richmond-ky-2017-83dbf4
Wave
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
- Richmond, KY has 33 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 66 reports from Kentucky.
- The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
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.