CaseFlash2018

Elizabethtown, KY, USA

While traveling northbound on I65 today heading toward Louisville, I saw a bright light flashes. The light resembled a star.

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (124 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-05-22
Where
Elizabethtown, KY, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
37.694, -85.859 · exact
Slug
flash-over-elizabethtown-ky-2018-60d813
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 19 reports logged in Elizabethtown, KY.
  • This case is one of 47 Kentucky reports filed in 2018.
  • Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Report

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