CaseUnknown2005

Lexington, KY, USA

It was brighter than a star, but slower than an airplane

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-01-14
Where
Lexington, KY, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
appr. 1 hour
Geo
37.989, -84.478 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-lexington-ky-2005-610110
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…

In context

  • This is one of 86 reports logged in Lexington, KY.
  • This case is one of 60 Kentucky reports filed in 2005.

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.