Chosica (Peru), Peru
watched a cylindrical, clearly metallic, resembling shiny aluminum, somewhat rounded object hovering on nearby hills, moving pendulum-l
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-07-20
- Where
- Chosica (Peru), Peru
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- -11.943, -76.709 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-chosica-peru-1966-73e832
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Chosica (Peru), Peru in the UFOMYST archive.
- Peru logged 1 sightings in 1966.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 2% during the 1960s (archive average: 1.6%).
Report
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