Hickory, NC, USA
Bright Light in distance over mountains moves in very quickly, then moves slowly over suburban commercial district (Kmart).
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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 (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-06-10
- Where
- Hickory, NC, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 35.733, -81.341 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-hickory-nc-1966-367db2
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
- Hickory, NC shows up 38 times across the archive.
- 4 reports came from North Carolina in 1966.
- In the 1960s, 23.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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