Dover, DE, USA
Within about an hour's drive of Dover Air Force Base, Delaware in July 1966, a witness reported a disk-shaped object in the sky, observed for about five minutes.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (161 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-07-01
- Where
- Dover, DE, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.158, -75.524 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-dover-de-1966-2abcb1
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
- Dover, DE has 30 sightings on file here.
- 1966 brought 2 reports from Delaware.
- The 1960s skewed 23.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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