Sphere over Crittenden, KY
A conventional explanation is favored by the record but was never formally confirmed.
The report, as filed
On the night of september twenty third, at about nine thirty p m I was taking my dog out and seen brigth white moving from the northwest to the southeast. At first there was 2and I hollered for my Wife. When she got to the back porch the 2 had disappeared in the southeast. That's when we saw 8 more appear in the northwest. We watched them move across the sky the same has the others and disappear then 4 more appeared and moved across the sky and to same spot as the others and just vanish. They moved at a very fast pace but they were all in a somewhat straight line and somewhat evenly spaced in the 3 separate groups we saw. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178417). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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