Opa Locka, FL, USA
UFO sighting at Crestview Elementary School in Opa Locka, Florida around 1966.
Report quality: Moderate63/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-11-01
- Where
- Opa Locka, FL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- late am to early pm
- Geo
- 25.902, -80.250 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-opa-locka-fl-1966-3f3cce
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'…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Opa Locka, FL reports filed in November 1966.
In context
- Opa Locka, FL shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from Florida 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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