CaseDisk2002
Paintsville, KY, USA
Train collision. ((NUFORC Note: Subsequent investigation by Center for UFO Studies, suggests possible hoax. PD))
Report quality: Low20/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (16 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2002-01-14
- Where
- Paintsville, KY, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 37.815, -82.807 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-paintsville-ky-2002-63e919
Local cluster
Local cluster
Paintsville, KY logged 3 reports in the single month of January 2002.
In context
- One of 6 documented reports from Paintsville, KY in the UFOMYST archive.
- Kentucky logged 29 sightings in 2002.
- Disk sightings ran at 6.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 5.9%).
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.