Boca Raton (Military trail), FL, USA
SAW BRIGHT LITE.DROVE CLOSER,STOPPED WHEN NEXT TO IT.500 YARDS.GOT OUT OF CAR WALKED TOWARD LIGHT.NEXT THING 5 HOURS LATTER
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 21600s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-10-15
- Where
- Boca Raton (Military trail), FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 6 HOURS
- Geo
- 26.359, -80.083 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-boca-raton-military-trail-fl-1966-df13dd
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
- Boca Raton (Military trail), FL has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1966 brought 11 reports from Florida.
- The 1960s skewed 10.1% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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