UFOMYST
CaseLight2008

Morehead, KY, USA

Eleventh Floor of Cartmell Hall at MSU Bright Red Orb 2 feet in width speeds by. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. Possible hoax. PD))

Report quality: Low1/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2008-12-10
Where
Morehead, KY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
37.271, -87.176 · exact
Slug
light-over-morehead-ky-2008-e85eff
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

  • Morehead, KY has 19 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 71 reports from Kentucky.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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