UFOMYST
CaseCylinder1965

New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA

In Brooklyn, New York City in August 1965, a witness reported a dark grey cylinder-shaped object in the sky, observed for several minutes.

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 (138 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
minutes
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-new-york-city-brooklyn-ny-1965-f56433
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

  • This is one of 235 reports logged in New York City (Brooklyn), NY.
  • This case is one of 20 New York reports filed in 1965.
  • Cylinder craft made up 2% of 1960s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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