UFOMYST
CaseLight2017

Lexington, KY, USA

Large, bright, orange constant light about 2000 ft up, traveling East to West over Lexington during fireworks with no sound.

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (124 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2017-07-04
Where
Lexington, KY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
60 seconds
Geo
37.989, -84.478 · exact
Slug
light-over-lexington-ky-2017-515d28
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Lexington, KY reports filed in July 2017.

In context

  • Lexington, KY shows up 86 times across the archive.
  • 66 reports came from Kentucky in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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