Jacksonville, NC, USA
Students in Jacksonville, North Carolina, reported a circular object floating above their school gymnasium during a 20-second sighting in June 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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (148 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-06-30
- Where
- Jacksonville, NC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 34.754, -77.430 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-jacksonville-nc-1967-5d397b
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
- This is one of 26 reports logged in Jacksonville, NC.
- This case is one of 5 North Carolina reports filed in 1967.
- Circle craft made up 10.1% of 1960s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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