Franklin, KY, USA
slow moving white light got very bright then got dim and then vanished
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (70 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-06-13
- Where
- Franklin, KY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- one min
- Geo
- 36.722, -86.577 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-franklin-ky-2009-351c6d
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…
Local cluster
Franklin, KY logged 3 reports in the single month of June 2009.
In context
- One of 16 documented reports from Franklin, KY in the UFOMYST archive.
- Kentucky logged 60 sightings in 2009.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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