UFOMYST
CaseDisk1966

Pell City, AL, USA

Witnesses in Pell City, Alabama, reported a disk-shaped object with strobe lighting observed at close range, low altitude and low speed during a three-minute sighting in October 1966.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (183 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-10-10
Where
Pell City, AL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
33.586, -86.286 · exact
Slug
disk-over-pell-city-al-1966-fab208
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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

  • One of 5 documented reports from Pell City, AL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Alabama logged 2 sightings in 1966.
  • Disk sightings ran at 23.5% during the 1960s (archive average: 5.9%).

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