CaseDisk1965
Elkins, AR, USA
On a clear night you could see the saucer
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (41 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-06-30
- Where
- Elkins, AR, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 36.001, -94.008 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-elkins-ar-1965-ade42f
Wave
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
- Elkins, AR has 3 sightings on file here.
- 1965 brought 3 reports from Arkansas.
- The 1960s skewed 23.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.