Richmond, MO, USA
Near Rayville, close to Richmond, Missouri in 1966, four teenagers reported a disk-shaped object on a country road, observed for about one hour.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (144 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-04-01
- Where
- Richmond, MO, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 39.279, -93.977 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-richmond-mo-1966-d2bd12
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
- One of 4 documented reports from Richmond, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
- Missouri logged 5 sightings in 1966.
- Disk sightings ran at 23.5% during the 1960s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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