Ashland, KY, USA
Orb shaped, pulsating violet/white light going eastward, stopping then quickly out of site to the north.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-09-20
- Where
- Ashland, KY, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 38.478, -82.638 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-ashland-ky-2011-3ee124
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
- This is one of 18 reports logged in Ashland, KY.
- This case is one of 85 Kentucky reports filed in 2011.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
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.