Disk over Burkesville, KY
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Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #148640). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-08-31 → 2019-09-17
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January 23, 2023 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Burkesville, KY
I was stopped at red-light before a bridge that crossed the Cumberland River. Two small satellites converged, coming from different directions. About a mile over the river and about a half mile from my vehicle. They started exchanging bolts of energy or communication. I don't know. The exchange only lasted about 30 seconds. Than they moved apart and flew off. Again in different directions. They made no noise at all.
May 1, 2021 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Burkesville, KY
Was over cumberland river near bridge and flew over house on south side bluetooth radio and lights outside started to blink radio made humming sound and alarm on house went off. Alarm has been off and not used in months never done that before. Silent no sound Helicopter flew same direction as other at slow pace. Neighbor said his horses still not wanting to go away from barn nervous of event hours later.
July 3, 2020 · 11:45 PM · OVAL
Burkesville, KY
While sitting outside Friday night I looked to the south and noticed an object moving in the sky from East to West. The number and color of the lights on the object is what grabbed my immediate attention. There was a row of 3 to 5 orangish lights on top, the middle had 5 to 7 reddish lights and the bottom row was 3 to 5 orangish lights. The top and bottom rows seemed to flash in synchronicity, while they were off the middle row was on. It was flying low, there are numerous hills in my area. It was between 800 to 1200 yards away, maybe 400 feet off the ground, it made no sound. There are no airports near me and no flight paths of any kind. The weather was clear at the time, I was on my phone with a friend and described it to him and he suggested fireworks. I've seen fireworks my whole life and aircraft of all kinds and descriptions. I am a retired Navy veteran and have watched airplanes my whole life. I have never seen anything like this, especially the light! array on this thing. It was kind of eerie and awesome at the same time. I truly believe that this was not any sort of craft of this world. If I had to guess at dimensions I'd say it was appropriately 50 feet long and 50 feet tall. The patt err rn of lights suggested the middle portion of the craft was longer than the top and bottom, hence the "oval" selection. The way the lights were flashing suggests to me they were following the circumference of the craft because there was brief intervals where the side I was had lights out, that's why I can't give an exact count of the lights. Thsnks.
May 24, 2009 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Burkesville, KY
A flashing light that changed directions three times and then streaked out of sight.
July 20, 1962 · 6:00 PM · DISK
Burkesville, KY
Disk, flying very low, over small town in Kentucky in 1962; close enough to see details.