Daytona Beach, FL, USA
we had got off work at 11:00 that night and went for a ride in rural volusia county. we observed a large object in the sky in a direct
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-04-14
- Where
- Daytona Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 4 min.
- Geo
- 29.211, -81.023 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-daytona-beach-fl-1965-262574
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
- Daytona Beach, FL shows up 50 times across the archive.
- 9 reports came from Florida in 1965.
- In the 1960s, 7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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