Castleside (UK/England), United Kingdom
Witnesses near Castleside, England, reported a huge cigar-shaped object pulsating red then orange like a heartbeat, with a horse reportedly reacting to it first, during a sighting in 1967.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (188 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-10-15
- Where
- Castleside (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 54.834, -1.878 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-castleside-uk-england-1967-8304eb
Part of a wave
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
- Castleside (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 6 reports came from United Kingdom in 1967.
- In the 1960s, 7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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