UFOMYST
CaseLight2018

Louisville, KY, USA

My son woke me up around 4am crying. I got him back to sleep and stepped outside for a cigarette. The moment I stepped outside my patio

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-05-05
Where
Louisville, KY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
Until sunrise
Geo
38.254, -85.759 · exact
Slug
light-over-louisville-ky-2018-8d17da
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

Louisville, KY logged 3 reports in the single month of May 2018.

In context

  • One of 224 documented reports from Louisville, KY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Kentucky logged 47 sightings in 2018.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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