- Date/time: Saturday, July 10, 2004 - Dusk
Location: Rt. 550 - Leburn, Kentucky (Knott County)
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- SUMMARY
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- On July 11, 2004 at 5:06 p.m., a Knott County, Kentucky
resident called the Cincinnati UFO Hotline (513-588-4548) to report a UFO
sighting by 3 witnesses from the previous evening, Saturday, July 10th.
His name and phone number are on file, deleted from this report for privacy
purposes. He wanted to report the sighting and had asked his son go online
to lookup a UFO reporting number.
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- The witness, 57 years old, is now retired but formerly
worked with the EPA for 25-years. He said that he was standing outside
shortly after dusk and, as darkness set in, stood talking with his wife
and a friend on property along Route 550 near Leburn, Kentucky (Knott County).
He said that besides himself, there were two other witnesses to the sighting;
his wife (49-years old) who stood to his left, and his friend who works
for The State of Kentucky as a Mining Inspector (also 49-years old). He
said that the other two witnesses were impressed by the sighting as well.
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- "We were just standing outside talking," he
said, "when all of the sudden there was some kind of flash. This thing
caught my eye, and it looked just like a star blew in half."
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- The witness said that from his vantage point on property
along Route 550 near Leburn, he was standing next to his wife and facing
in the direction looking to the northeast. His friend had his back turned
but also quickly looked to see the object(s). The witness said that he
couldn't determine height or angle with exacting specifics, but thought
it was situated in the sky at an estimated 70 degree to the northeast and
the object itself was fairly high, like a star.
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- "Something caught my eye, like an implosion,"
he said, "and I looked up and there was a flash. I would say the last
of the flash part that caught my attention.
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- "I happened to look up and saw this thing that looked
like a star that got real bright and spilt in two, one went one direction
and one went the other direction. The one that went to the left kind of
faded away in about 2 or 3 minutes after traveling straight across. The
one that went to the right continued on in a sort-of-southerly direction,
even somewhat southeast, and after a few minutes it suddenly made a 90-degree
turn and came towards us. It started to come my direction where I was observing
it from.
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- "It looked like a just like a star, as best as I
could describe it, then after a couple of minutes it faded out, too."
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- The witness also said the two objects, traveling in opposite
directions, looked identical, resembling two stars in a straight line.
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- "The right-hand object went toward the east for
several minutes and then it appeared as if it changed direction by about
a 90-degree turn and it came toward us for 2 or 3-minutes and then it faded
out."
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- The witness informs that the largest community near his
location would be Prestonsberg, Kentucky, about 35-miles away. Hazard,
Kentucky is about 25-miles distant. He was unsure of any additional witness,
asking if I knew if anything had been reported.
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- COMMENT
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- This appears to be an unusual sighting and the witness
adds that he is "not a UFO person" and was curious if there were
other reports. He remarked that the objects appeared star-like in appearance
but could not account for the apparent flight performance.
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- I inquired if the witness knew of any military air zones
near this location where aerial flare-training could be taking place, and
he knew of no Military Operation Areas nearby. He said that he was in the
military for years and had the ability to recognize flares, stressing that
the right-hand object 'undertook a certain maneuver' during the event.
This reported maneuver seems to complicate any payload or satellite re-entry,
meteor/debris or flare explanation.
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- Filed, July 11, 2004 Kenny Young
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