Pikeville, KY, USA
Large bright white non-flashing light moved 45-degrees in the sky in approximately a second. NOT A METEOR
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-09-18
- Where
- Pikeville, KY, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- Less Than 5 Seconds
- Geo
- 37.479, -82.519 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-pikeville-ky-2010-ffa12e
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 13 reports logged in Pikeville, KY.
- This case is one of 53 Kentucky reports filed in 2010.
Report
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