Mount Sterling, KY, USA
Me and my wife were outside at 2:00pm and saw 2 ships. Lager ship was about 2 miles long
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: 22s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-06-29
- Where
- Mount Sterling, KY, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 20-25 seconds
- Geo
- 38.056, -83.943 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-mount-sterling-ky-2015-aced0f
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
- Mount Sterling, KY shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 72 reports came from Kentucky in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
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