UFOMYST
CaseFireball1974

Benton, KY, USA

Flying Object appeared to be a fire ember

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (41 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1974-07-01
Where
Benton, KY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10-20 seconds
Geo
36.857, -88.350 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-benton-ky-1974-bf9f70

In context

  • One of 8 documented reports from Benton, KY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Kentucky logged 11 sightings in 1974.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 2.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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