CaseChevron1966

Dearborn, MI, USA

In Dearborn, Michigan on March 31, 1966, a witness reported being followed by a chevron-shaped craft over a period of one to two hours in a widely discussed 1966 sighting.

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (171 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1966-03-31
Where
Dearborn, MI, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
1-2 hours
Geo
42.322, -83.176 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-dearborn-mi-1966-99af3e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

In context

  • This is one of 25 reports logged in Dearborn, MI.
  • This case is one of 18 Michigan reports filed in 1966.
  • Chevron craft made up 0.9% of 1960s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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