Kite, KY, USA
Strange disc of light with trails of orange/pink on either side sighted above mountains.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-11-17
- Where
- Kite, KY, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- lasted 10+ minutes
- Geo
- 37.321, -82.803 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-kite-ky-2011-9fa2d5
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…
In context
- Kite, KY shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 85 reports came from Kentucky in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.