UFOMYST
CaseFlash2009

Greenville, KY, USA

Flashes of lights from what looks like stars. ((NUFORC Note: "Twinkling" stars?? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-08-21
Where
Greenville, KY, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
37.201, -87.179 · exact
Slug
flash-over-greenville-ky-2009-39349e
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 3 documented reports from Greenville, KY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Kentucky logged 60 sightings in 2009.
  • Flash sightings ran at 1.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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