Forbes AFB, KS, USA
I was in a van on the base after working on C-130 aircraft that night. I remember it was very cold and were in the van smoking cigarett
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-01-15
- Where
- Forbes AFB, KS, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- disk-over-forbes-afb-ks-1967-f1d5ed
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Forbes AFB, KS.
- This case is one of 8 Kansas reports filed in 1967.
- Disk craft made up 23.5% of 1960s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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