CaseCylinder1966

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
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    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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