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CaseDisk1966

Gainesville, MO, USA

Near Gainesville, Missouri in June 1966, a witness reported a silent, hovering disk-shaped craft over their home that other nearby people reportedly did not mention, for three to four minutes.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (192 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-06-01
Where
Gainesville, MO, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
aprx3-4 min.
Geo
36.603, -92.428 · exact
Slug
disk-over-gainesville-mo-1966-b0c460
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Wave

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  • 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

  • Gainesville, MO shows up 8 times across the archive.
  • 5 reports came from Missouri in 1966.
  • In the 1960s, 23.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

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