Azores (aboard USS Albany), Azores
Aboard the USS Albany off the Azores in early fall 1965, crew members reported a radar sighting of circular unidentified objects, tracked over about two hours.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (159 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-09-01
- Where
- Azores (aboard USS Albany), Azores
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 Hours
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- circle-over-azores-aboard-uss-albany-1965-d9ff03
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
- Azores (aboard USS Albany), Azores shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Azores in 1965.
- In the 1960s, 10.1% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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