Gainesville, MO, USA
I saw a hovering, silent craft over my home that no one else mentioned, even though they were there!
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 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
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
- 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%.
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.