CaseCylinder1966

Ft. Worth area, TX, USA

In the Fort Worth, Texas area in March 1966, a witness reported a large cylinder-shaped object in the sky, observed for about two minutes.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (138 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-03-15
Where
Ft. Worth area, TX, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
Slug
cylinder-over-ft-worth-area-tx-1966-ec6710
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 Ft. Worth area, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Texas logged 12 sightings in 1966.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 2% during the 1960s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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