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
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 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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