CaseCigar2012
Salt Lick, KY, USA
Strange objects appearing and disappearing
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-05-11
- Where
- Salt Lick, KY, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 38.120, -83.615 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-salt-lick-ky-2012-10c827
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Salt Lick, KY.
- This case is one of 65 Kentucky reports filed in 2012.
- Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
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.