UFOMYST
CaseCylinder1965

New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA

I was 10 years old.My mother and I walked the dog to the Parade Ground, an annex of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY. We let the dog off

Report quality: Moderate59/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1965-08-20
Where
New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
2 long minutes
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-new-york-city-brooklyn-ny-1965-d263a4
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'…

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In context

  • New York City (Brooklyn), NY has 235 sightings on file here.
  • 1965 brought 20 reports from New York.
  • The 1960s skewed 2% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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